simple-minded

How To Use simple-minded In A Sentence

• For the kids the knee-jerk tourist products are wooden toys, but they are lumpish, boring objects, unlikely to appeal to any but the most simple-minded of toddlers.
• Not one could grasp, or even imagine, the possibility that our simple-minded Palaeolithic ancestors were capable of art.
• The failure of such simple-minded thinking has also been proven by its total failure for Cuba, which has survived under American sanctions for more than four decades.
• To assume simple bureaucratic bungling is simply simple-minded. Balkinization
• In a sexist, thoughtless, simple-minded story, he found yet a new way to ghettoize actresses in Hollywood.
• Because they work on simple-minded theories and are totally oblivious of facts.
• In everyday life, the greater the distance between points A and B, and the more rugged the intervening landscape, the bleaker are the odds for success of a blindfolded walk, even—or perhaps especially—when following a simple-minded rule like “always climb higher; never back down.” The Edge of Evolution
• Such is Commerce, which shakes the cocoa-nut and bread-fruit tree in the remotest isle, and sooner or later dawns on the duskiest and most simple-minded savage. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• The failure of such simple-minded thinking has also been proven by its total failure for Cuba, which has survived under American sanctions for more than four decades.
• It's bad enough that George Bush has been willing, and able, to challenge and dismantle some of the most basic tenets of our American democracy - the system of checks and balances, an independent judiciary, and the right of a people to be free from government intrusion and persecution - but to see England fall prey to the same simple-minded authoritarian leanings is simply very sad. 01/16/2006