Literary notes about unsophisticated (AI summary)
The term "unsophisticated" in literature is employed with a remarkable range of nuances. In some contexts, it denotes plainness and simplicity, a lack of artifice that echoes modesty and unadorned truth, as seen in works that describe actions or speech in unembellished terms ([1], [2]). At times, authors recognize an inherent brilliance in this simplicity—an almost genius-level perceptiveness emerging from an unsophisticated nature ([3], [4], [5])—while in other instances it may be tinged with condescension, hinting at a lack of worldly intricacy or refinement ([6], [7], [8]). In philosophical and moral discussions, the term is also used more abstractly to contrast genuine, direct experiences with the complexities of learned or artificial constructs, thereby celebrating a kind of primary, instinctual virtue ([9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14]). This versatility allows "unsophisticated" to capture both the charm of spontaneous authenticity and the critique of a seemingly naive simplicity.
- It is modest, plain, and unsophisticated.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - In the most unsophisticated manner I said, "You have made a mistake; I asked you for cabin tickets.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs - This unsophisticated girl did it by an innate perceptiveness that was almost genius.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy - He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck to your neighbor.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau - And our unsophisticated little hearts knew well where the Crystal Palace of Truth lay and how to reach it.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore - ‘My dear mother,’ said Nicholas, ‘I don’t suppose such unsophisticated people as these ever had a card of their own, or ever will have.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens - But this young girl was not a coquette in that sense; she was very unsophisticated; she was only a pretty American flirt.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James - Is it unusual, unsophisticated, primitive?’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens - In an unsophisticated age the same feeling prevails in regard to those advantages which a man may draw from more external circumstances.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - It says there is a certain ultimate pluralism in it; and, so saying, it corroborates our ordinary unsophisticated view of things.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - I mean the simple, unsophisticated Conscience, the primary moral element.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Talking of oratory, why is it that the unsophisticated practices often strike deeper than the train'd ones?
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Consumed by an unsophisticated passion for the Divine Mother, the saint no more demanded the outward forms of respect than a child.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Not outmoded, not unsophisticated against the guiles of materialism, the disciplinary precepts mold India still.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
