plain-souled

Updated: June 19, 2025

But Common Sense is obtuse and safe. Morgan was a mass of fine sensibility; his temperament was full of subtle light and shade therefore dangerous. Plain-souled, clumsy-handed Common Sense, with perception limited to the thick outlines of character, could not have comprehended him, and would unwittingly have confessed it by classifying him contemptuously. Morgan had lived his own life felt it.

Louis Zangwill - Cleo The Magnificent : Or, the Muse of the Real