His epigrams and epistolary poems (épîtres), in particular, display those qualities of wit, intellectual refinement, and sincerity and naturalness that were to characterize the French use of these genres for the next two centuries.
They frame intellectual inquiry as assessments of sincerity.
He does this through his intellectual and artistic gifts, and through his passionate sincerity.
He meanders along, making no intellectual demands and trying to get by on sincerity and good will.
Even if you reject, as I do, the universality of her diagnosis, Smith has pinpointed the reason so much of what passes for intellectual debate nowadays is obscured behind a veneer of folksiness and sincerity and is characterized by an unwillingness to be pinned down.
In this More, again adopting a fictional persona, wins over the youthful Messenger, his interlocutor, whose sincerity is never in doubt but whose anti-intellectual bias and self-reliance makes him representative of an evangelical readership.
The sincerity of these apologies was further undermined by his stance on intellectual property, arguing that "appropriation has been the most influential theme in art since the 70s... It's not plagiarism in the digital age – it's repurposing".
Neither an intellectual nor a hardheaded politician, Debs won support through his personal warmth, integrity, and sincerity.
His music does not claim intellectual depth but conveys the joys, loves, and sorrows of the human heart with striking and poignant sincerity.
Being an effective communicator and a decent human being requires empathy — not the fake kind, to induce sympathy from your intellectual opponents, but a real curiosity about how decent people can look at the world so differently with such sincerity.
