Denominator
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Modern comedies appeal to the lowest common denominator, the undemanding and slow of brain.
'Chinese Bookie' makes its impact because of mood, character, Ben Gazarra's performance, and an attention scene to scene where people are in the lowest common
denominator
(a strip club, a gangster's office or car, on the run).
What a yucky, lowest common
denominator
mess.
This is a script lacking in ethics with an abundance of lowest common
denominator
morality.
With any luck it will one day be consigned to the same fate as 'The Black & White Minstrel Show' - unloved and forgotten, a relic of a shameful era when the lowest common
denominator
reigned supreme on British television.
However, the film panders to the lowest common
denominator
and follows a predictable formula.
It's incredibly dumb, offensive, and appeals to the lowest common
denominator.
Television has been reduced to the lowest common
denominator
and people swallow it because they have gotten used to it.
It seems like all the scary movies these days cater to the lowest common denominator, doing fast cuts, lots of gore.
Not even the very able and talented cast (Jemima Rooper especially) can save the thematic and plot line disasters that seem to lock this show into appealing to the lowest common
denominator.
They, typically, are the lowest
denominator
of television and entertainment.
This show plays to the lowest common
denominator.
Inspired by the national battles of cheer squads on ESPN, screenwriter Jessica Bendinger takes the cliched templates of sports movies and teen movies and reduces both to the least common
denominator.
But coalition rule can also often mean governance of the lowest common denominator, as resistance by any of the government’s significant members to a policy can delay or even thwart it.
That way, the debt/GDP ratio declines because the
denominator
(economic output) increases, not because the numerator (the total the government has borrowed) declines.
After all, that seems to be the common
denominator
of every policy controlled by his White House.
By raising the
denominator
of the debt/GDP ratio, it enhances confidence in debt sustainability.
Indeed, many thought of the Fund as an activist entity, because it focused on three devastating epidemics that have a common denominator: economic and social inequality.
Third, while ECB policies keep borrowing costs lower, private and public debt in the periphery countries, as a share of GDP, is high and still rising, because the
denominator
of the debt ratio – nominal GDP – is barely increasing.
With a stagnant denominator, it is hard to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio: the legacy of the past continues to weigh excessively on the present.
Of course, Plato’s disdain for democracy is never far from the surface of his prose, yet he has a legitimate point: how, after all, can high ethical standards be ensured when democratic elections tend to reward self-interest and the lowest common
denominator?
The same initial assumption led Imanishi in 1952 to suggest that animals might have culture, which he reduced to its lowest common denominator: the social rather than genetic transmission of behavior.
The economic heterogeneity of such a large number of members, when paired with the unanimity required for core decisions to be taken on issues such as taxation, the budget, fundamental rules and other areas, means that the common
denominator
for decisions in the EU will become smaller and smaller.
The absence of a common
denominator
among EU governments’ positions has hardly been conducive to the emergence of the cogent and reliable diplomacy needed to address the Middle East’s deep problems.
Attempts to convert national incomes into a common
denominator
are fraught with complications.
Rather than focus on budget deficits, we should concentrate on the
denominator
of debt-to-GDP ratios.
Its continued sustainability will depend partly on the trajectory of Greece’s GDP – the
denominator
in the debt ratio.
Think, say, of how in much of Western Europe the only way that new immigrants and their host culture are reconciled is through a culture of consumption and materialism - that is, a culture of the lowest common
denominator.
Too often we waste international cooperation on overly ambitious goals, ultimately producing weak results that are the lowest common
denominator
among major states.
Fascist Hindus seized upon these grievances, mobilizing people by using the lowest common
denominator
- religion.
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