Could this simplicity-sincerity effect apply to speech as well?
What's startling isn't just the seriousness or level of discourse (and that they're smoking), but also their sincerity about effecting change at home.
The narrative is in a style the Russians call skaz, a nice word with echoes of jazz and scat in it, which uses the repetitions and redundancies of ordinary speech to produce an effect of sincerity and authenticity — and humor: "The thing is, most of the time when you're coming pretty close to doing it with a girl... she keeps telling you to stop.
"He reminds me in the loveliest way of my English teacher," said Radcliffe, "who is someone I am very, very fond of – so he has a fast track to my heart!" The 26-year-old praised the Corbyn for galvanising young voters and the disenchanted with his sincerity and conviction, describing the effect he has had on Labour party supporters as "incredible".
We are, in effect, bestowing on the Communists a measure of sincerity by our very presence at the conference table.
His language can be said to obey only one rule, that is, to be "an effect of judgment and sincerity,"[60] which is the very one that he demands from the pupil.
She adopts different emotional costumes, for fun and for effect, but at any given moment she is behaving with complete sincerity.
Fairy tales, however many times they are transformed, depend in some part for their effect on an air of sincerity, of urgent seriousness.
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The sincerity of the campaign is debatable, but the short-term effect has been clear: a sharp drop-off in Chinese sales of luxury watches, purses, and baubles.
It is possible, analysts said, that both Mr. Assad and Iran's leadership are following a strategy used to great effect by Iran before: pledging sincerity to diplomacy as a way to stall for time.
