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352 examples of Simplistic in a sentence

This is not a simplistic film, and its power comes from the depth of its critique of all the players in this ongoing political struggle.
That's the extremely simplistic plot.
Meanwhile, the northern EU countries are falling prey to a simplistic message of their own: that their southern counterparts are irresponsible spendthrifts who should be left to solve their own problems.
School textbooks remain simplistic, with the Communist role still the most prominent and the Nationalist role more of a caricature.
The Lega Nord in Italy, the Vlaams Blok in the Netherlands, the supporters of Le Pen's National Front in France, are all examples of parties or movements formed on the common theme of aversion to immigrants and promotion of simplistic policies to control them.
Today’s populists, however, demand simple – indeed, simplistic – answers outside the scope of mainstream consensus.
One extreme is the simplistic Keynesian remedy that assumes that government deficits don’t matter when the economy is in deep recession; indeed, the bigger the better.
With many of today’s advanced economies near or approaching the 90%-of-GDP level that loosely marks high-debt periods, expanding today’s already large deficits is a risky proposition, not the cost-free strategy that simplistic Keynesians advocate.
Macron is right to point out that the EU bureaucracy often seems remote, uninspiring, and ineffectual; but he also rightly rejects referenda that polarize citizens over simplistic binary choices.
How did this simplistic, certainly unscientific, and frequently damaging approach gain such dominance?
It is simplistic to portray the Venezuelan tragedy as an apocryphal tale of what happens when a country is taken over by left-wing populists.
And insights from behavioral science were inadequately regarded – if not shunned altogether – in favor of analytically elegant microeconomic underpinnings that were model-friendly, but unrealistic and overly simplistic.
This is not to say that EU countries face no risk of falling victim to simplistic populist rhetoric.
But if the Trump disruption were actually going to help the US, it would need to focus on economic essentials, rather than simplistic – and often false – populist memes.
Today’s tendency to view Muslim grievances in one-dimensional terms reduces political discourse to a very simplistic level.
But that is both patronizing and simplistic.
The simplistic categorization of political parties by their preference for a particular size of government masks more complex intraparty tendencies.
Within a complex and constantly evolving economy, a simplistic inflation-targeting framework will not stabilize the value of money.
Burundi's cultural and linguistic homogeneity, rare in Africa, belies the simplistic view that the Hutu and Tutsi fight because they are so different.
Balancing the TechnocratsISTANBUL – A simplistic (actually, naive) view of markets is that they exist almost in a “state of nature,” and that the best of all worlds is one where they are free to operate without government interference.
An equally simplistic view of democracy is that it is a political system in which periodic competitive elections give the winner the right to govern without constraint.
Yet coverage of the controversy by the news media and the blogosphere has been astonishingly intense – and simplistic.
They have responded with draconian policies that mirror the simplistic message of a drug-free society espoused by UN drug treaties and the institutions that seek to enforce them.
His simplistic slogan – “Make America Great Again!” – could have been taken from Putin’s playbook on how to turn incompetence and weakness of character into the appearance of omnipotence and bold leadership.
These are simplistic claims, reflecting a fundamental misunderstanding about the Kingdom’s role in Yemen – and, indeed, in the entire Arab world.
Oil was not the cause of the Iraq War in the simplistic sense that American control of Iraqi oil would make it more secure.
Of course, the logic behind calls to restrict our freedoms has a simplistic appeal: extremists use our freedoms to commit their crimes, so preventing the abuse of freedom requires curtailing freedom’s scope.
Gone is the simplistic view of a conflict pitting aspiring democrats against a grouchy dictator – the familiar (though not entirely accurate) narrative of the Arab Spring.
Trump’s simplistic, xenophobic rhetoric will also find a sympathetic audience among Poles and Hungarians who fear large-scale immigration.
But simplistic free-market optimism is misplaced for at least four reasons.
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