Sentence examples for dumb them from inspiring English sources
We all know, of course, what Hollywood producers do to books: they dumb them down, change their plots, violate their integrity, put stupid dialogue in characters' mouths.
"Why do we want to numb and dumb them more?" Three months ago, increasingly desperate, Ms. Vargha, 56, removed her sister from the group home, and took her to her house.
HERE'S a multiple-choice question: if the federal government penalises states where pupils do badly in school, but lets the states themselves set the pass mark, will the states a) make the tests harder; or b) dumb them down?Historically, the answer has been b).
Finn thinks NCLB got things backward: "The law should have set uniform standards and measures for the nation, then freed states, districts and schools to produce those results as they think best". Instead, it left standards up to the states, which have an incentive to dumb them down to make compliance easier.
As for the games themselves, Currier says that WonderHill is looking to take the "Pixar approach", building family-friendly games with high production values that could be played by anyone, without having to dumb them down too much for children.
Some traditional librarians worry that experiments aimed at making libraries more accessible could dumb them down.
Guston didn't dumb things down; he dumbed them up.
As a script doctor, he tends to work on his own terms - smartening scripts up, rather than dumbing them down.
It's important to keep these pages accessible and to have value for all without dumbing them down".
Thanks to those programs, these days television is "enhancing our cognitive faculties, not dumbing them down," as Steven Johnson wrote in The Times Magazine in 2005.
Last year, at the annual meeting of the National Trust, which oversees many of Britain's grandest estates, Worsley participated in an Oxford Union-style debate, standing against the motion " 'Bringing houses to life' is another way of saying 'Dumbing them down.' " She wore a cherry-red sweater with a large rosette on the left shoulder.
