We were all so excited about destroying Justine, and our shaming brains are so simple-minded, that we couldn't also handle destroying somebody who was inappropriately destroying Justine.
Simple-minded beyond the experience of Wall Street or State Street, he resorted, like most men of the same intellectual calibre, to commonplaces when at a loss for expression: " Let us have peace" !
Thus, upon the head of Patsey—the simpleminded slave, in whose heart God had implanted the seeds of virtue—the force of all these domestic tempests spent itself at last.
Since those forgotten afternoons when her niece barely had enough interest to turn the crank on the sewing machine, she had reached the conclusionthat she was simpleminded.
But what happens if, instead of playing another smart Yale football player, they're playing some uneducated probably simple-minded football player from, say, Harvard.
It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life.