To them, his simple idiom is not his weakness, it is his strength.
Heffernan is no nature writer, but he wisely chose a simple idiom to convey the quiet peace of this backwoods enclave.
By the close of the Roman Republic, three factors had entirely transformed the originally simple idiom of the early denarial coinage: gold was freely struck in addition to silver; the types of both were personal to military leaders and included living portraiture; and coinage could be produced elsewhere than at Rome.
It is the simplest idioms — say, "That doesn't go" — that are the most baffling.
In the fourth movement a melody in the violas swelled and shrank, as if catching itself, followed by a quick burst of Tom-and-Jerry humor that gave way, just as suddenly, to a simple, folklike idiom.
Mr. Feingold's translations are always adept, and his version of "A Will of His Own" gives a sense of the era while keeping the language in simple American idiom.
In modern Iranian criticism these features are seen as the first signs of a change from the comparatively simple and natural idiom of the early poets, called the "style of Khorāsān," to the much more sophisticated "style of Iraq" (i.e., "Persian Iraq" [ʿIrāq ʿajamī], a name once used for central and western Iran).
David Amram, the polymath composer who began his career playing jazz and classical music in the 1950s, said in a recent interview that his own music shifted after Spencer suggested in 1969 that he perform in the simpler folk-song idiom.
In England, from the moment Lonnie Donegan's "Rock Island Line" hit the charts in 1956, a would-be performer was more likely to play skiffle a simple-to-play idiom based on American folk and blues songs, performed on guitar, broomstick bass, and washboard which first emerged in jazz clubs.
He called "Calypso Blues", written by Nat King Cole and Don George, "an artfully simple welding of idioms" and another song she composed, "Scandal in the Family", "standard Trinidad calypso stuff" and reported that her performance of it "rocked the house".
Cale, like many challenging experimental musicians who play in a rock-pop idiom, doles out simple joys sparingly, surrounding them with noise and angst.
