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The menu is simplicity itself: six burger options, one size of fries, one size of shake – vanilla, chocolate, strawberry – a handful of sodas, and six flavours of ice cream.—Neil Davey, theweek, 16 Sep. 2024 But simple theories, where simplicity itself is the virtue and the appeal, are rarely easy to implement.—Felicia Wong, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021 The plot is simplicity itself, but each of the villains has his own maniacal flavor.—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024 My role in this annual list of 10 is simplicity itself.—Michael Phillips, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2024 Perhaps the origin of life was simplicity itself, nothing more than the routine consequence of basic conditions on early Earth.—Peter Radetsky, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 Going back 30 years ago, the fix was simplicity itself: remove the standard-sized head unit and replace it with something else.—Jack Baruth, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023 Eliminating some of them by testing their predictions against data from living brains might seem like simplicity itself.—Elizabeth Finkel, Quanta Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023 Tommy’s Margarita Created in the early 1990s by Julio Bermejo at Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant (a San Francisco staple since 1965), this is simplicity itself.—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 29 Apr. 2023
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