The way Leigh concludes “Hard Truths” bowled me over with its sheer simplicity.

Close emphasizes this lesson every season, marveling in its brilliant simplicity.

After the grand desserts and layered flavors of the holidays, the simplicity of my little Sugar Muffins is what I crave.

Other technology exists, but surgeons said the simplicity of the machine allows people to be trained quickly and some alternatives require a surgical team to travel to the donor, which can be expensive.

One example is the voluntary simplicity movement in the 19th Century, she says, which advocated for an anti-consumerist lifestyle.