How To Use Simplistic In A Sentence

We should also not make the rather simplistic assumption that co-residence implies a strong bond between relatives.
At the outset, a solution to Bangalore's clogging drains can't be that simplistic.
With all due respect, I think that your perspective here is horribly simplistic, uncomfortably mis-targeted (to the point of near endorsement), and quite diversionary from the essential core issue. Oaxaca to Guadalajara: The good.. the bad.. & the ugly
The Greek middle classes fare not much better in Tsiolkas's simplistic, one-dimensional portrayal.
When news was presented in a sensational form, it certainly evokes simplistic responses.

Everything is done with exaggerated slowness, which seems a rather cheap way of adding profundity to some fairly simplistic ideas about war not being a very good thing.
Wilson you know absolutely nothing about the environmental movement, so instead you peddle in simplistic lies, instead of educating yourself and debating them on any sort of intellectual level. Can We Drop The Global Warming Pretense Now? Please? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Bringing it back to Freshwater: it looks as though he was given a simplistic test scheme which he could game by playing the short-term rote memorisation card with his classes, while pandering to his own religious prejudices. Freshwater: The Board's rebuttal case - The Panda's Thumb
Conflict has simplistically been blamed on stock-thieves, but police have also been accused of taking sies, and Mhlaba has alleged organised crime and politics also fueled the conflict. ANC Daily News Briefing
We question simplistic quantitative measures-based on Gross Domestic Product-of which countries are to qualify for debt cancellation.
While Ranade deploys the resources of the surrealist tradition to achieve his ends, it would be simplistic to gloss his work under that rubric.
I haven't seen it yet, and don't intend to, because altho' I was a - fan is too strong a word, I was a *fan* of Battle of the Planets and Starblazers and Voltron, but I watched and liked the series when it was running tho' I thought it rather simplistic and corny by comparison to the other shows I mention - I have heard so much that sounds depressing and Othering about it as a liberal woman, that I don't really need to spend any of my scanty budget on seeing CGI and explosions. Proper Credits for Transformers
The film, thankfully, avoids the simplistic lectures that pervade many stories about social media, but it also fails to tackle how Zuckerberg's values, which are largely Facebook's values, impact the lives of its huge user base. Ari Melber: The Social Network: Because People Like Being Alone Together
And do you really think that an ideology whose primary spokesman is Rush Limbaugh is NOT simplistic? Bubbles and Macroeconomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
We need a new 21st century army to address needs, stem climate change, spread appropriate technology -- and to engrain service and community building into America's character -- so that tomorrow we'll be too smart to follow simplistic and costly public policies. Fresh President and Congress need calloused hands of Americans
But it is too simplistic to say it was all down to Eddie. Times, Sunday Times
Both of these notions are simplistic and ahistorical, and I'll try to argue that they're shortsighted.
The style is simplistic, clichéd and overly sentimental. Times, Sunday Times
This is a brilliant antidote to the usual simplistic interpretations of imperialist adventures.
Some of their slogans can seem almost as simplistic as those of the protesters. Times, Sunday Times
The art program used to be very simplistic, but it has become a nicely featured program due to user requests for changes.
Unfortuantly that tow liner is less simplistic than the North fought against slavery and the South for slavery narrative. urgs, the point is that you missed the damn point. Matthew Yglesias » Politics and Investment Bias
Generally, the idea that the Red-State Democrats and Blue Dogs are simplistic, purely procedural, and therefore easily manipulated is a convenient assumption for certain arguments. Matthew Yglesias » How Many Votes to Change the Senate’s Rules
Natural but, in a team sport, oversimplistic. Times, Sunday Times
That may be far too simplistic a narrative. Times, Sunday Times
Criticize the moronic politics and you get a sermon about not reducing works of art to a simplistic set of objective declarations.
Scholars have suggested that because the edicts say nothing about the philosophical aspects of Buddhism, Asoka had a simplistic and naive understanding of the Dhamma.
He has a simplistic view of the treatment of eczema.
I, for one, am simply not prepared to sit back and allow simplistic criticism of Airedale Hospital and its staff to continue unchecked.
The graphics are somewhat simplistic.
The selection is nicely varied but there is no historical through-line, and the treatment of individual authors is simplistic. The Times Literary Supplement
This conversation has the effect of reviving my old questions not about the war itself — of which I disapproved from the first day, and of which my analysis hasn't varied at all — but about these strange characters whom we in France stubbornly persist in demonizing ( "princes of darkness") or ridiculing with simplistic epithets ( "neo-cons," which can also mean, in French, "neo-dummies"), but who aren't quite as uni-dimensional as they may seem. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part IV)
RPI is a simplistic and wrongheaded methodology, relying heavily upon a team’s OPPONENTS’S strength of schedule and looking at a single variable (wins and losses) to determine the ranking of teams. The Volokh Conspiracy » We Got Screwed!
The entries are crisp and precise; simple without being simplistic, accessible without being condescending. The Times Literary Supplement
Instead, it starts off with in inane, one-dimensional, simplistic “McCarthy was right” and what came out of that. Edward R. Murrow: God or not? « BuzzMachine
No repeat is likely of those simplistic pledge card promises - such as cutting hospital waiting lists - which seemed so straightforward and unambitious in 1997, but turned out to be a millstone.
That was simplistic and it blinded people to the many good things he did with the England squad. Times, Sunday Times
The problem is that "not guiding" implies that "guiding" is the only way that God and evolution can be reconciled, which is simplistic and fails to reflect what many thoughtful Christians actually think. Pete Enns, Ph.D.: Evolution and Religion: Why Religion Pollsters Should Go to Seminary First
This is not only simplistic but it is even ignorant of pain-provoking peripheral nerve fibres now known to exist in man.
Being a simplistic kind of fellow myself, I thought Why are they comparing varve thickness to tree rings and global temperature? Loso: Varves in Alaska « Climate Audit
This is why the dualistic divide between pro and anti-communists has always appeared to me as a simplistic product of the rivalry between (what once were) the two superpowers.
Simplistic analyses of changes in vegetation cover probably confused natural temporal variability with long-term degradation.
It would be far too simplistic to argue that football killed him. Times, Sunday Times
Tony plays these super simplistic lines over some generic guitar chording, and all the action is provided by the sequencers.
That's what ideology is all about: it's brash and catchy because it's simplistic and pre-established.
The complexities of the quality of social relationships would be reduced to such simplistic proxy variables.
But it is too simplistic to counterpose the idea of Mozart as a product of the Enlightenment to the idea of the composer as a born genius.
And that, says Strait, suggests that simplistic ideas about australopithecine diets, based on tooth and jaw size, and why they went extinct, need to be reevaluated.
Beck's CNN guestlist is replete with often obscure, simplistic hawks. Jeff Cohen: TV Blowhard Barks at Iran: Let's Hold CNN Accountable
This is far too simplistic; most heroin addicts have long criminal histories before they take heroin. Times, Sunday Times
Nor have we needed the finer developments of functional neuroanatomy to tell us that brain damage causes changes in behaviour, thus undermining simplistic notions of free will or criminal culpability. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review
I know it is simplistic, but I wish everyone, everywhere, could live harmoniously.
And the heart, which has no resemblance to an anatomical heart, is a simplistic illustration of an aroused and engorged vulva, a holy yoni. Donna Henes: On Valentines And Vulvas
That is not a threat; it is the reality of treating a complex issue in a very simplistic way.
As simplistic as this may sound, she instinctively understands the power of compound interest.
It doesn't bode well that so many people are still mired in simplistic views. 14 Important Science Questions
The Brevity line of jewelry is aptly named, as the title defines its simplistic and minimalistic beauty. TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
Also the part about neural networks is simplistic, to say the least: what about the learning model and backpropagation? Reddit.com: what's new online!
The idea that people are just moving out of the core of their cities to the periphery is now too simplistic. Matthew Yglesias » Command and Control
I disagree with the either/or framing of the question as oversimplistic, but not the appropriateness of the question in a religious context. TEXAS FAITH: The brutal health care choice | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
To reduce these experiences to simplistic dichotomies and folk concepts erases the complexity of embodied experiences and the cultural logic that underpins them.
It sounds too simplistic, but it is unquestionably true. Times, Sunday Times
Slipping on a straitjacket of simplistic logic, we come to believe that the disorder must, or at the very least should, be overcome by an application of willpower.
Real memories nicely counterpoint any simplistic views of bygone mores. Times, Sunday Times
It is fatally simplistic to compare their survival figures, excellent though they are, with those of a small hospital in the suburbs that treats mainly children with snuffles and chest infections.
The lyrics - slightly surreal sometimes - are suitably uncontrived, simplistic and understandable.
He said a ‘simplistic response’ would be to reduce the network to those lines that were economically viable.
Right now, I feel this country needs that empathy more than anything else because we have a schismatic president who is portraying the world as a simplistic black-and-white cartoon.
It is easy to reduce arguments to simplistic ideas.
Quantum mechanics contradicts the notion of real only if one takes a naive, simplistic view of reality.
As a tag, "pedophile priest" readily and simplistically summons indignation that "ephebophile," a far more obscure word, does not. Priests and Boys: An Exchange
Admittedly, this is a simplistic analogy, but it captures the essence of the issue.
To state baldly that it's purely between the woman and her doctor is crass and simplistic at the very least.
The line is fine between simple and simplistic. Times, Sunday Times
Overall, Temptation is a sad affair carried by simplistic melodies that have been mixed and layered to cavernous depths.
But it lacks the meaty substance of its predecessors, and feels too fluffy, light, and simplistic to truly work.
So simplistic a statement certainly calls for some immediate qualifications.
We sometimes hear the simplistic view that more competition means less potential for investment. Times, Sunday Times
His interpretation of the figures is far too simplistic.
My opinion is that it's oversimplistic to nullify their actions by calling them victims, or tools or cannon fodder. MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)
It is also simplistic to say it is all about Adrian. The Sun
Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and reductive of the complexity of the situation.
While it may be tempting to blame these killings on some extreme form of sibling rivalry, most cases of fratricide or sororicide defy such a simplistic explanation.
To watch him agonize over some of the tough positions he took was to appreciate the complexity of a man judged harshly and often simplistically. He Knew He Was Right
The accounting practices examined in this paper do not reveal some crude, and by modern standards ‘simplistic’, calculative technology.
For instance, it's too simplistic to say that Indo-European speakers were all patriarchal warriors and native Europeans were all matrifocal pacifists. Archive 2007-10-01
It is not too simplistic to say that one good win could turn the whole thing around again. Times, Sunday Times
Drug misuse is too complex a problem to be solved with a simplistic, zero tolerance approach.
Education can not be assessed on the simplistic measure of a league table of exam results.
The ticket booking is a bit fiddly, and the design is more simplistic than simple, but the database is vast and efficient. Times, Sunday Times
He has a simplistic view of the treatment of eczema.
North-South is a common way of dividing them but it is far too simplistic. Times, Sunday Times
With this in mind, having multiple characters use the word "dictator" to refer to Chavez without any real discussion seems simplistic at best. Ask Matt: The Good Wife, The Killing, and More!
This is a far cry from Corbon's more simplistic description of the Eucharistic canon as prelude, liturgy of the word, anaphora, communion, and finale.
Yet it would appear even that even this explanation is too simplistic.
He argued that it is too simplistic, and indeed ethnocentric, to dismiss such peoples as irrational and unscientific.
I am sure you would come back and pontificate some more but let me give you credit for at least trying to "quantify" your analysis, as simplistic and flawed as it was ... Poll: Hillary Way, Way Ahead In Florida Primary
Does any one know if there are any Arab techno thriller writers out there, writing books where we are, in simplistic terms, the bad guys? Cheeseburger Gothic » Research quickie.
But at the same time, the simplistic sloganeering that goes on the in U. S. about China only intensifies those problems and makes them harder to resolve.
These guys have been defiantly old school for a while now, but in the face of scary current events, there is an undeniably dated feel to these simplistic samples and breakbeats.
The argument was somewhat simplistic, and off on some facts, but the room was packed, and no one was quibbling over details.
Simplistic gameplay aside, the game is honestly funny when it's not being too lowbrow.
Today's television environment is, more than ever, warmly hospitable to simple - and simplistic - declarative statements.
It's overly simplistic to label a player insecure or unsure of his masculinity.
Without him, in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a strong chance that the popular poetry revival of that time would have ended up gutlessly simplistic.
Some of his advice may seem simplistic in the extreme but it is important nonetheless.
A simple, though possibly simplistic, explanation is that these organisms use antibiotics to protect their food supply.
You could argue, of course, that the over- of oversimplistic is chiefly an intensifier.
This type of simplistic abstract stratification of the world economy and power subordinates the dynamic of class relations to a static distribution of market shares.
In other words it enables one to modify the artificially simplistic notion of clear-cut dependent and independent variables having one-way causal links.
I think premillennialism is dangerous, because this inclines you to simplistic and dangerous positions.
Perhaps I am being a tad simplistic here, obviously there's the issue of passive smoking.
The evidence from the case studies demonstrates that managers did not respond to market signals in simplistic ways.
This was taken up by archaeologists during the 1960s, but under the glare of the mature processual archaeology of the 1970s and 1980s appeared rather simplistic.
A simplistic way of looking at this would be to adopt a kind of officious bystander test who is stood alongside the states making the treaties. German Constitutional Court approves Lisbon - with provisos
They have to assert their identities, refuse simplistic discourses, promote critical and self-critical understanding and get out from their intellectual, religious and social ghettos.
National thinking is dominated by simplistic banner headlines and by a celebrity idolism. Times, Sunday Times
You seem to think this is a sophisticated philosophy, but to the Elders of Sodom it appears risibly simplistic -- practically crude and ignorant in its systematisation of potential human behaviour into a set of axioms bearing little relation to reality, and all of these articulated in a one note modality of "must" and "must not," judging this action a virtue to be proud of, that one a vice to be ashamed of. An Open Letter to John C. Wright
More broadly, Mr. Kurlantzick sets up a simplistic and false choice for the U.S. during the Cold War between the views of some early OSS officers Thompson among them who favored supporting nationalist movements in Southeast Asia, including Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh, and the views of others who favored "picking conservative dictators rather than gambling on left-leaning men who might be Democrats. A Silken Web Of Intrigue
Julie Flynn, the Chief Executive of Free TV Australia says Labor's ban is simplistic and won't work.
This is a reasonable simplistic assumption, but it is the best that will normally be possible.
If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.
That's what ideology is all about: it's brash and catchy because it's simplistic and pre-established.
You're wordier than Arnold, but demonstrate the same mindless worship of simplistic assumptions about the rationality of people and markets. Nobel Prize-Winner Makes Intermediate Error, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
But what we watch is a medium which presents information in a form that renders it simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual," writes Postman. John W. Whitehead: Gods Made in Our Image: Politicians As Entertainers
Assume the past resembles the simple patterns and clear verities of myth and the stories we write and call history will be woefully incomplete, hopelessly simplistic, and shamefully neglectful of others who were there.
I know that naive and simplistic but I just feel that while these trees and plants are nice they are out of context.
God, therefore, cannot be reduced to or contained by any theological rhetoric or exegetical attempt to make simplistic the complexity and mystery of a transcendent God.
As a result, there can be no question of moving from commandments to counsels in a simplistic way, and no sense that perfection involves supererogation.
And that, says Strait, suggests that simplistic ideas about australopithecine diets, based on tooth and jaw size, and why they went extinct, need to be reevaluated.
Chilapalapa, otherwise known as Fanagalo, was a simplistic form of Ngoni Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, and related languages, amalgamated with snippets of English, Dutch, and Afrikaans. Rainbow’s End
It is therefore far too simplistic to regard complementary medicine as a single thing, opposed to an equally homogeneous orthodox approach. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
By contrast, the ideals that filtered out from television screens were "simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual."
They said investors will not come in until you deregulate, that is too simplistic, pedestrian, in other words, you are not in government, you are not a leader, if you are a leader, you cannot say the oil industry will fall into the hands of some cabal," he said. Undefined
Masking the witches also moves them from a simplistic medieval notion of devilry and further towards symbolism.
The result is long passages of simplistic monologue explaining basic Marxism in an entirely unconvincing manner, making the characters appear as cardboard cut-outs.
The simplistic rubber plug for the presta only valve stems makes it so easy to use.
For some in the travel industry, though, that view is oversimplistic. Times, Sunday Times
But I hope that here we can avoid that kind of simplistic muckraking and have a serious discussion about judicial philosophy.
He comes across as simple without being simplistic. Christianity Today
It's far too simplistic to say that. Times, Sunday Times
We drank wine from the bottle and slobbered our spittle into simplistic belches of conversations that were actually ideological rhetoric and nonsense we could both agree with.
Because we are not talking about simplistic, crazy, crackpot religious fanatical elements. A Rock and a Hard Place
I know that sounds simplistic, but it's hard to describe in more complex terms!
Its main drawback is that it is based on the unrealistic and simplistic assumptions of two countries producing only two goods.
The awesome misunderstanding of Barthes, enabling Ed for the purposes of his review both to quote a genu-ine intelleckchal and to distill the incredible complexity of his thought into a simplistic meme concerning his "feelings about genre" is really sufficient to make me want to kick Ed around the block. Explain Yourself
There is a growing trend away from skeuomorphic designs towards more simplistic and minimal type interfaces.
It is, at its most simplistic, that France must regain its former glory; it must reindustrialise to make things and create jobs; it must dump the euro and throw up barriers against immigration, cheap imports and external interference; France must come first. The Guardian World News
We question simplistic quantitative measures-based on Gross Domestic Product-of which countries are to qualify for debt cancellation.
He was hesitant to criticize the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, and his spirituality was considered overly simplistic and pious.
While this may seem a bit simplistic, it actually describes how profanity can exist in a sacred universe.
DeLong’s first error is to oversimplistically equate Web 2.0 with “participation and feedback from our ‘users’.” Strange Attractor » 2007 » October
While today's technology enables us to embed attitudes or psychographics into databases and use them for media selection, many marketers remain mired in simplistic views of the mature market.
The trouble with this analysis is that it is simplistic.
I know this sounds a very simplistic solution to a very complex issue, but I am convinced of its truth.
For those, like Ryan, who atttempt to deligitimize the “pro-torture” (and to even say that is silly, no one relishes torture) in simplistic and casual ways is blithely ignorant … moral clarity aside, ones personal decisions take on much more significance when those decisions effect millions of others in, possibly, profound ways. Think Progress » Shame on Yoo
It is therefore far too simplistic to regard complementary medicine as a single thing, opposed to an equally homogeneous orthodox approach. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
The dropping of a simplistic synth line in the bridge and eventual chorus only sweetens the deal.
This is a very simplistic approach to the problem.
The style is simplistic, clichéd and overly sentimental. Times, Sunday Times
We should also not make the rather simplistic assumption that co-residence implies a strong bond between relatives.
With our invariably simplistic tendency to summarize any given issue into Good vs. Bad, the courts are held up as the primary counterpoint to the criminal element of society.
You end up parroting a simplistic vision of Canada where Blackness or Negritude doesn't exist ‘in anything like the way it does down south.’
On the other hand, when government interventions are proposed, the government is generally assumed, in strangely simplistic fashion, to be motivated by nothing other than to maximize the utility of its subjects! Teaching Un-Normal Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
As an example of misplaced scientific certainty Winston said the traditional "determinist" approach to genetics was proving to be too simplistic. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
To suggest the issue will be solved by piping water from the coast to the inland is too simplistic and fraught with hidden future complications.
Between them they come up with a tale that is occasionally engaging, often inscrutable, and in the end simplistic.
Like many bands playing earnestly banal semi-derived emo schlock they've connected with an audience of disaffected youth who find comfort in their cranked up pop music and simplistic lyrics.
I've found that when I "deconstruct" an art to develop variations, my original notes seem very simplistic. Notes to Myself
The editors explore some of the significant Cold War events and issues that scarred a generation of Australians and degraded the national political culture with simplistic certitudes.
We question simplistic quantitative measures-based on Gross Domestic Product-of which countries are to qualify for debt cancellation.
It seems basic, it seems simplistic, but it is an absolutely huge factor. Times, Sunday Times
Historically, B movies have existed as simplistic, inexpensive distillations of Hollywood's big-budget genre fare.
Well yeah Leefeller, it could be simple survival, at least if you prefer that one-term simplistic answer to the question rather than my one word answer. Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Their secret teachings delineating specific steps on the quest and the stages of attainment, beautiful, yet neutral, an oversimplistic reading of the people we meet. 55 words #5
But the etiological beliefs of the Nahuas, a topic we explore in depth in Chapter 4, were not so simplistic, attributing all ailments to gods angry with human failings. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
They put out a simplistic script of ‘good vs evil ‘that was taken up by a pliant and intimidated media.’
But more often, the frames are shoddily constructed and prefab: simplistic narratives that coerce the participants in a given story into preassigned roles, regardless of the complexity of what actually happened. Robert Koehler: Cheap Frames
Even when the film flirts with shades of grey - such as the alternate visions of heroism offered by drunken knife-wielder Jim Bowie and his foppish rival William Travis - Hancock's adherence to rousing, simplistic conventions turns his story into laborious mush.
All due respect, but that's an incredibly simplistic sledge.
Yet if the middle-class memories of the servants from their youth seem too simplistic, I contend that there are deeper reasons embedded in the dialectics of writing autobiographies and memoirs at a particular historical conjuncture.
Perhaps one of the more negative aspects of film's influence on the world audience is the conveyance of a simplistic good/bad dichotomy.
They also promote a stunningly simplistic and distorted view of French politics.
I disagree with declinists who simplistically portray our age.
That said, the way we are currently going about dealing with this problem is just as oversimplistic and wrong. Edwards Didn't Always Oppose "War On Terror" Phrase
Olivero uses a wide gamut of techniques to present the quoted folk material, ranging from rich, sensitive and simple (but not simplistic) arrangements to non-tonal metamorphoses of basic melodic cells, often presented through dense heterophony and clusters. Betty Olivero.
Unfortunately, on this scale, the shapes are too simplistic, the edges too regimented.
It's an overly simplistic label, one that has stopped us wanting to open up her box and see what's really inside.
At the same time, she argues against market proponents who claim simplistically that markets reduce social exclusion and economic insecurity.
simplistic arguments of the ruling party
It's a dubious, lop-sided kind of integrity at best - but at least this bullying blusterer of a politician was prepared to take action and not wring his hands in the face of a rising tide of simplistic, fear-driven politics.
By focussing on submitting opinions in the form of votes, referenda tend to represent the ‘general will’ in the most simplistic aggregative terms, as little more than a snapshot of majority opinion.
It was an emotional, simplistic post (some might call it pissy). The worst agenda is a hidden agenda « BuzzMachine
This is an ironic line given its obviously oversimplistic conclusion. Matthew Yglesias » All Planning is Planning
However, the raw emotion in the vocals and the simplistic backing draws your attention and forces you to give the lyrics a chance to shine.
The CPMA put forward a motion rejecting the replacement of existing councillors by what it called a simplistic system whereby half the councillors were appointed by the civics and other half by non-statutary organisations. ANC Daily News Briefing
Instead, it starts off with in inane, one-dimensional, simplistic â€œMcCarthy was rightâ€ and what came out of that. Edward R. Murrow: God or not? « BuzzMachine
Once again we find that nature is unkind to simplistic formulations.
We can't condemn segments of a community for their prejudiced, simplistic views when we ourselves are using other simplistic prejudiced views to come to our conclusions.
This simplistic assumption seems blatantly foolish.

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