Sentences with phrase «without dumbing it down»

We have another statement that says: «We will reach out without dumbing down (I borrowed that phrase brazenly from Marva Dawn): We will challenge you to think hard about God, Church and culture.

Remember, admissions committees have to read many (sometimes hundreds) other essays besides yours, so make it clear and easy to understand without dumbing down the details.

Even lofty research journals are now reaching out to wider audiences without dumbing down.

Denial is a well - paced dramatization that puts human faces on the case without dumbing down the issues.

Borrowing a 1959 story by Robert A. Heinlein (Starship Troopers), the Spierig brothers fleshed out the original idea to make it more cinematic and visual, but remarkably, without dumbing it down (i.e. without padding it or adding chase scenes).

The Big Idea: That it is possible to deliver a more accessible version of an arthouse sci - fi classic without dumbing down its psychology complexity.

If film as intellectual history sounds arduous, a single scene of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy arguing out ideas while playing pool will convince you otherwise: Margarethe von Trotta's gripping dramatization succeeds not only in bringing complex ideas to life without dumbing them down, but in teasing out their emotional stakes.

Jackson is somebody who has the imagination necessary to take something like this from his mind and translate it on film without dumbing it down.

But Kathy Sierra doesn't just pull it off she does so with amazing clarity — explaining complex concepts in simple ways without dumbing them down.

Capcom designed the game to be much more accessible to new players, and did so without dumbing down the game for the hardcore.

Like a number of quality of life improvements that World introduces, scoutflies eliminate some of the irritation and busy work previously associated with the series» hunts without dumbing down or oversimplifying the core elements that veterans cherish.

This requires some creative thinking on the part of the developers to come up with a method of that makes the game playable and accessible without dumbing down the experience.

It also manages to include several characters from M - rated games without dumbing down their histories; though no blood is spilt beyond characters bursting into clouds of PS button symbols, characters like Radec from KillZone and BioShock's Big Daddy get to fight as brutally as ever.

It is well - written, well researched, well argued, and thoroughly accessible for a general audience without dumbing down the science.

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During the hearing, Chairman Chaffetz noted that Mylan's «dumbed down financials» did not make sense without explanation.

A whine about the dumbing down of society followed by claptrap about God and evolution not able to exist without each other.

Secondly, the jollying - up - by - dumbing - down of the liturgy bespeaks a clericalism that doesn't trust the lay faithful to «get it» without bells and whistles.

The few that then glare down their nose at those they find dumb, all without realizing their privileged position.

Courses without those independent checks can be, and often are, dumbed down, defeating their purpose.

These distractions are specific behaviors that have without a doubt dumbed down the general population and may very well be killing everyone's gains!

I could sit the controller down and have my dumb ai party beat the game for me without even leveling up.

If the prolonged fashion for action / CGI movies is based on dumbed - down Adventure movies without the heart, this show is all heart.

The writer - director, Shana Feste, who made the 2010 Gwyneth Paltrow vehicle «Country Strong,» knows how to stage a road movie as soft - edged psychodrama, without getting bogged down in dumb plot developments.

On the down side, most of the characters are one - dimensional stereotypes drawn without much affection (though all are more or less redeemed): Norman's shrill cheerleader sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick); dumb - jock Mitch (Casey Affleck), the older brother of Norman's one friend, nerdy, overweight Neil (Tucker Albrizzi); goth bully Alvin (Christopher Mintz - Plasse), an older version of Moe from «Calvin & Hobbes.»

Perhaps without even blinking, Reeves has dumbed it down, adding explanations and motivations so that Americans will not be confused.

Financial jargon isn't dumbed down to TOWIE level but cameos by Margot Robbie & Selena Gomez among others ensure you can follow what's going on without needing to Wikipedia every other piece of terminology used.

The streamlined, focused structure eliminates potential tedium without dumbing anything down, and the battle system strikes an elegant balance between strategy and fast - paced action.

Garland isn't one to dumb down the material either, casually including eye - popping details without necessarily drawing your attention to them — watch, for example, the forearm infinity tattoo.

Given the fact that it's probably too late to change the cartoonish, kid - targeting tone of the series without a major reboot down the road, you either have to take the films on their own dumb fun terms, or just ignore them altogether.

Of course, this also makes the film a bit dumbed down for juvenile consumption, but without the hipness and soundtrack that bolstered more popular efforts, Corey Haim's appearance in the film would probably be the only thing that might appeal to anyone interested in teen horror.

«The boys don't feel like they need to put on a big show for the girls, and the girls feel like they can strive academically without having to dumb down their abilities.»

And as John Taylor Gatto expressed in Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, «without children and old people mixing in daily life, a community has no future and no past, only a continuous present» (2005, 21).

Gleick makes their twisting, complicated work completely accessible without dumbing things down — and the book's a joy to read, too.

But it will tell those of you, who already know how to produce an excellent book design for print, how to convert that design to a downloadable color PDF, an ePUB FXL version, a reflowable version with embedded fonts, another without fonts, and a dumbed down Kindle version for those things Kindle can't handle yet.

Early Retirement Extreme covers all of that without dumbing anything down, and it also goes over everything from calculating the true cost of home ownership to the importance of using your savings rate as a way to monitor your financial health.

And to be more specific: Super Mario 3D Land is basically a dumbed - down version of Super Mario Galaxy, without the cool gravity effects and creative level design.

In contrast, reviewers from GamesRadar and Computer and Video Games appreciated the linear nature; the former stated that «the streamlined, focused structure eliminates potential tedium without dumbing anything down», [12] while the latter felt it was «a clever move», [111] and kept the player from being» [bogged] down with mundane number crunching, [and] finicky and repetitive leveling - up.»

Ported over from the PC and simplified with console controls in mind, this «dumbing down» of the arcade - style flight game actually made it more fun as a result, creating one of the most fast - paced flight games on a system without many other options.

You might not be amazing at killing human controlled characters, but taking down a few bots lets players feel helpful without having the experience feel too «dumbed down» for the people who take the game more seriously.

I have to say, the gameplay looks about as dumbed down as possible, without any sort of minigame or such.

They successfully made a new version of GG that is easier for newer players to get into without making veteran players feel like the game is dumbed down, and still rewards all of the things that were rewarded in previous versions.

The series is addictive, fun, clever, and increasingly challenging especially because the Mario games in general are doing a great job of implementing systems that make the n00bs happy without causing the whole game to be dumbed down.

The Stanley Parable, however, is hilarious without being dumbed down.

Here he manages to do so without dumbing things down or taking on a purely populist tone.

There is the constant struggle to clearly explain one's topic without over-simplifying or misrepresenting by dumbing - down the details in hopes of communicating better and on the opposite side, explaining the topic in far too great an esoteric technical detail and far above the general understanding of one's readers...

I'm kinda hoping that Dr Shakhova & Dr Semiletov have been dumb enough to believe things that people tell them without actually checking, but having nailed their colours to the mast like this its hard to see how they can back down.

I can't suggest a solution, I'm afraid, only that we have to keep putting up the best science we can, without exaggeration or dumbing it down.

Given all the media buzz about Heartbleed, I thought it might be useful for lawyers and law firms to understand what it really means for them, without either too much techno - jargon or over-use of dumbed - down metaphor.

It's simple without being dumbed down, with the information hiring managers and recruiters want presented up front and in an attention - getting way.