Sentences with word «simpleminded»

Unfortunately, narcissists have learned to devalue others, not to trust their judgments, and to think of them as naïve and simpleminded.

Even without the convincing developments of the last 40 years of climate science and its expansion to cover a wide variety of evidence and disciplines, it should be obvious to the simpleminded that our planet is finite, our consumption increasing, imitators from the world previously unable to use so much are on the increase, and resources are being used up.

Yet he made this simpleminded material go awry, producing strange mutations of anatomy, emotion, and sex that turned into a personal world at once comic and grotesque.

Obviously the brilliance and massive scope of the game is lost on someone as simpleminded as you.

But why would anyone want this sweet, simpleminded man dead?

A representative of the Randall plantation bought her for two hundred and ninety - two dollars, in spite of the new blankness behind her eyes, which made her look simpleminded.

So simpleminded.

All of these simpleminded, corporate reforms pushed by profiteers, politicians and the business community are putting our children's right to a developmentally appropriate and enriched education at risk.

Books like J.D. Vance's «Hillbilly Elegy» force us to confront simpleminded views of the ills we seek to address and to be humble about over-optimistic schemes to set things right.

Both books force us to confront simpleminded views of the ills we seek to address, and to be humble about over-optimistic schemes to set things right.

By the twentieth time its simpleminded mantra (bringing a life into the world instead of taking one can change a hardened heart) is summoned literally and imagistically, culminating in a grotesque effigy of a fallen friend posed in the middle of an indistinct tableau, Greenfingers has lost all power to instruct and become something at once odious and unintentionally funny.

Robert Pattinson, affecting a mumbly Sling Blade drawl, plays one thief's simpleminded brother, who helps lead Pearce to his prey.

It's too much of a «kitchen sink» approach to comedy to ever sustain such a simpleminded storyline in a full - length feature film.

Its brilliant colors and startling characters spring from the screen and remind us how very, very tired we are of simpleminded little characters bouncing around dimly in 3 - D.

It seems Smaug marinated these trinkets with his noxious attitude, which has infected the simpleminded dwarf king.

The final image is an enduring one — in the days since I've seen Gone Baby Gone, it's hardly left my mind — and where bits of jingoistic garbage like Rendition are rattling bleeding heart sabres with patronizing, simpleminded zeal, here's a movie that takes the sobering, mature stance that even things that are black - and - white are never black - and - white.

There's often a fine line between simple and simpleminded.

That polarity is a measure of the movie's simpleminded attitude, the same attitude that blithely confuses a «possession» story, laced with unsavory sexual undertones, for a daring take on Eastern spiritualism.

At least the wild costumes and gorgeous girls provide enough eye candy to keep the simpleminded marginally occupied.

Hal Ashby's 1972 cult film may be simpleminded, but it's fairly inoffensive, at least until Ashby lingers over the concentration - camp serial number tattooed on Gordon's arm.

Now, inspired by these mound - building insects, Harvard University scientists have created a mini-swarm of surprisingly simpleminded robots that can work together to construct buildings much larger than themselves.

In the shorter term, nav systems may start improving traffic flow simply by no longer directing every driver onto the supposed fastest route, a simpleminded approach that currently funnels everyone heading the same way onto the same roads.

At first, because so little was known, «we asked broad - based, simpleminded questions,» Wells says.

«It's Mario's Fault» is the whiny, simpleminded distillation of this criticism.

A simpleminded tennis scribe once asked the tawny - skinned Rios if he had «Indian blood.»

He's nearly as bad as the scientologists, who actually DID penetrate the US government on a shortminded and simpleminded scheme to destroy evidence.

With the Jews... again... I don't understand how someone can be so simpleminded as to lump all of them into one bowl.

There are undoubtedly great dangers in making any simpleminded connections between Jesus» baptism and our baptisms.

Though he'd already read the original, we both thought that Hillside's Father Brown Reader looked like a high - quality introduction to Chesterton's deceptively simpleminded sacerdotal sleuth.

This is why Whitehead finds the enunciation that discord «constitutes the meaning of evil... much too simpleminded.»

But I think that he is simpleminded.»

Frankly I'd be more likely to listen if you said «My god is kind of a simpleminded jerk, but he's all powerful, so you'd better listen up.»

But it is difficult at times to see how the theory of perception encompassed in Russell's logical atomism adds anything to Hume's position, even as it is often hard to exonerate Russell from the stigma of simpleminded extremism and inconsistent excess — as, for example, in his variant intemperate reactions to the metaphysics of William James.

«Bertie thinks I am muddleheaded; but then I think he is simpleminded» — A N. Whitehead The title of this paper is taken from this famous viva voce remark by Whitehead.

Such joy is not facile or simpleminded, but rather a recognition and celebration of created life:

Only a very simpleminded person would feel that God should be any different...

None of the reasons for theism work unless simple, or as I see it simpleminded determinism, is entirely false.

To present - day theological writers these rules of Orwell's, formulated in the 1940s, may seem somewhat simpleminded and even journalistic.

Thus God is almighty in the obvious sense of being able to do anything — or so the simpleminded have been led to think.

It is a simplicity that is by no means simpleminded.

If anything, it's an indictment of how simpleminded and sheepish people can be... ironically backing the atheist view.

As simpleminded as this may sound, it's either very important price breakouts or breakdowns ahead.

They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded.

SimpleMind is user - friendly and even fun to use, and can assist in the creation of complex mind maps in over a dozen languages.

SimpleMind + is a mind mapping tool that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device.

If you are looking for a Scapple equivalent on the iPad, I recommend you try the app SimpleMind + This is a mind - map editor that supports multiple trees of nodes in a single document, and permits links between any pair of nodes, even those in distinct trees.

Apps chosen for the programme included Poll Everywhere, Padlet, Dragon Dictation, Turnitin, Wunderlist, Prezi, Simplemind + and Padlet.