How far all this is from the old simplicities when a secret service was really secret, and was indeed so secret that it was legitimate to doubt its very existence!
I was doing that for simplicity's sake.
I use those figures for simplicity's sake.
Except to serious social engineers, neither of those two crucial simplicities applies in the diverse world of a free society in time of peace.
Had the rich dad—for simplicity's sake—stayed with the family, the child would have benefited.
We are uneasily aware that our lives have moved far away from the primitive, and even from the relative simplicities of a pre-industrial world.
The simplicities of a world of nation states and activities confined within the territorial limits of those states have gone.
I know that in time the truth will gain wider currency in the country than these glowing simplicities.