It is that surface simplicity of theirs which makes a trap for the stranger.

That the creative team of "Far Away" manages to match these qualities onstage is no small feat, despite the play's surface simplicity.

He knows how to fill a stage, and his floor patterns have an intricacy beyond their surface simplicity.

The two-pronged metaphor is incredibly effective for all its surface simplicity.

The strength and sincerity of his talent, its surface simplicity and the intensity of its emotional effect.

"Dandelion Wine" is one of his most dazzling works, all the more affecting because its surface simplicity does not hide a witty structural interplay with the music.

The surface simplicity of the scene belies the sheer weight of the spot's message.

He had rather disliked him - the sharkish vitality, the blunt lust for money, the surface simplicity not very successfully masking a character of cunning and furious ambition.

There is a deceptive element of surface simplicity to "Only Yesterday" that is not unlike other tales of immigrant education.

Mr. Sondheim has written songs that are indeed like fairy tales in their surface simplicity and echoing depths.