Sentences with phrase «dumbed down in»

It has introduced this into the education system and now the general population has been dumbed down in basic science.

The general population is completely dumbed down in the real world basic science of the difference between heat and light, and much more besides.

For example, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is one of my favorite games from that generation, thankfully I played it on the Xbox, because the GameCube version had some modes and levels removed from the game entirely, and some of the remaining levels needed to be dumbed down in order to work on the GC.

I, as an Old Zelda fan, have been with this series since I was a kid, so when the games get dumbed down in any way to allow new players to join, it becomes extremely frustrating and feels as if fans like myself don't matter to the powers that be.

Frankly, we were rather worried - both Shift and Shift 2, Slightly Mad Studios» last high profile projects, were considerably dumbed down in the handling department.

Clever books such as Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy are not dumbed down in digital.

It's very anti-establishment, and isn't dumbed down in the slightest.

Of course, the film gets to the life raft quicker than the book does, and some of the religious themed debates have been excised, but I didn't feel for one moment that the tale had been dumbed down in favour of nothing more than flashy visuals and expensive CGI set pieces.

The script is intelligent and never feels dumbed down in an attempt to appeal to the masses of children that are its target audience.

Singlehandedly destroying any argument that TV has not dumbed down in the last 50 years he goes on to provide a definition of political parties for pre-schoolers.

DUMBING DOWN In search of a global explanation for our cranial downsizing, some scientists have pointed to a warming trend in the earth's climate that also began 20,000 years ago.

You are exactly the same as the studios and filmmakers you attack, because you «re constantly dumbing yourself down in favor of sounding «hip / cool / witty / sarcastic / glib or snide».

Actually CCS math dumbs down in the high school years compared to what we now offer.

He dumbs it all down in the complete goofus guide to...

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Girls learn to dumb down their intelligence in order to get approval, to be acquiescent, and to place others» needs before their own.

In other words, deconstruct the complex to make it easily understood, but don't dumb it down.

Thiel and his buddy David Sacks argued that colleges were bowing to political correctness, dumbing down their admissions policies and silencing intellectual dissent in the «name of diversity.»

In these efforts, technology companies too often resort to sexist slogans, painting it pink, or dumbing down features, say marketing experts.

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He said, «The dumbing down of America is manifested in the culture deprivation of our academia that have taught these kids the lies, media that have prodded and encouraged and provided these kids lies.»

If you are a business owner, aspiring entrepreneur, or struggling to find your way in your business, turning down the ability to listen to Joey talk is about as dumb as thinking that Rob Ford wasn't a drug addict.

It just dumbs you down to believing in other fantasies and machinations.

Get out from your circle of liberal, collegebrainwashed, associates and you will discover a wholesome reality that your professors are trying to keep you in the dark about; after all they need to perpetrate the dumbing down of society to keep their hefty paychecks coming.

Rush Limbaugh has done more to destroy and dumb down political discourse in this country than any other person in its history.

Well, I added quotation marks to help you catch onto the sarcasm since you missed it in the Tiger Toe thread, so really I dumbed it down a bit.

The loss of liturgy and the lack of breath of emotion in worship means we dumb down our worship to just songs about the positive things.

Sadly, most things in this world caters to the masses: greasy fast food, dumbed down movies, stupid reality shows on TV, tabloid magazines, etc...

It affects us when they attempt to teach creationism in schools and dumb down our nation and children.

When I was in my teens, my friends and I, like all obnoxious teenagers, used to do dumb stuff like slide down the steep escalator...

It is common to be cynical about dumbed - down popular culture, American education comes in for its share of critiques, and biblical and theological illiteracy is a real problem.

These oversights on the part of Rabbi Soloveichik are indicative of a greater fallacy at work in his essay: the oversimplification and dumbing down of Jewish faith by essentializing it to fit one specific pattern.

You wrote «Atheists spend their time in front of the TV watching Jerry Springer dumbing down America.

I'll even offer observations - humans have manipulated existing organisms dna, created new virus and bacteria, clone animals, and attempt to create new animals - yet simple minded folks still reject the idea that another more intelligent creature might have done the same thing and created life on earth in the same fashion while at the same time acknowledging that there is a strong likelihood of other life existing in this universe - talk about being dumbed down and arrogant.

I find a lot of pastors and teachers dumb things down too much, and do a disservice to what God is doing in the church.

Atheists spend their time in front of the TV watching Jerry Springer dumbing down America.

1) We truly live in a dumbed down culture, which is ignorant of, and prejudiced against, its own roots.

Not to mention being politically incorrect for dumbing down my beliefs and faith as one who worships «an invisible magic man in the sky.»

Not to mention what the religious fundies want to do to dumb down our children in public education.

For the 27 years of my priestly life, I have been using a lame - duck text that dumbs down the theology of the Mass and prevents me from giving to God the reverence due to Him in the words of the prayers prescribed by the Church.

But when did we ever win in the end when we lowered our standards and dumbed down who we are to get what we think we want?

First of all, most sermons in todays church have been dumbed down due in large part to the anti-knowledge sentiment that permeates just about every facet of every church I've seen or been involved with.

So things go in our dumbed - down democratic times... and I don't want to spit upon whatever weak campfires the young suburban - souled folk are able to get going.

There are hundreds of millions of Muslims living in the Middle East whose lives have been totally screwed up by having to dumb themselves down to the simple minded religious majority.

But in the interest of penetrating your thick skull, I'll dumb it down to your level.)

His article contains much that is good, much in fact that is very good in his thought - provoking condemnation of the dumbing down of the British education system.

Isn't it up to us to educate people to know and understand the big words that they will encounter in the Bible rather than «dumb it down» to their level?

and just so you know, i am only using the bible because i ahve realized your scope of referrences blows... so in tring to have a convo with such a person one must dumb down.

I also think the pervasive opinion that megachurches grow by «dumbing down the gospel» is mostly the opinion of the small, dying churches in America.

In addition to being dumbed down by religion, prayer makes you even more stupid than you already are.

A Book Forged in Hell is, to be sure, the product of a prestigious university press and definitely not in any respect dumbed down, but it has very few footnotes and is clearly designed for the general» although not the innocent» reader.