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Factoring in the melody, he said: "There's a simplicity to it, or maybe a simpleness to it, that is also part of the allure of that song. "

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2022

I fell in love with its complexity and its simpleness.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2022

The situation was reversed and the smart and superior sniggering of the cultivated spectators well deserved the Duke's rebuke: For never anything can be amissWhen simpleness and duty tender it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2013

Pajarita's style can be described as lo-fi pop, dreamy and awesomely catchy for its simpleness and discretion.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2012

"That isn't simpleness, mama," he said, looking across the boulders behind the apple-trees where the hammocks were slung.

From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard