Shouldn't we assume that is sincere, and not just some functionary in Iran, trying to bait a bunch of simpleton lawmakers?
The director sees the play's restless crew of simpletons, hellions, rogues, rustics and romantics as engaged in a tumultuous struggle to make sense of their chaotic world and discover what really matters.
Adverts for insurance comparison websites have long treated the British public like a shower of infantilised simpletons.
Mother drew a number of local simpletons into her orbit, among them poor old drunken Thaddeus Craven, and burnt them up as thoroughly as the earth's atmosphere consumes asteroids.
By the time the party is over, her relationship is, too, and most everything else seems imperiled, including her friendships with a gaggle of socialite simpletons (June Diane Raphael, among others).
Anyway, you'd have to be the worst sort of simpleton to see La Tuns as anything other than a very good thing.
Indeed, although Galileo states in the preface of his book that the character is named after a famous Aristotelian philosopher (Simplicius in Latin, Simplicio in Italian), the name "Simplicio" in Italian also has the connotation of "simpleton".
The moderator of the show is serial race-baiter Eric Bolling and the panel consists of a Lazy Susan of cackling simpletons.
"He's not a very sophisticated guy," Mr. Tacopina said, adding that his client was "maybe a bit of a simpleton".
The driver who hit him, 42-year-old Bryan Smith of Fryeburg, is known locally as a bit of a simpleton.
