Sentence examples for dumbed it down from inspiring English sources
Despite his claim that he reconceived the mini-series, he didn't; he truncated it, made its psychology more obvious, dumbed it down for Hollywood.
But as soon as I dumbed it down" – giggling – "I felt very comfortable".
But, according to Gibney, Apple dumbed it down, made it more rigid, and film-makers deserted it.
"And I saw the scores go up as they dumbed it down, and that was really hard".
If you repackaged "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as a novel, dumbed it down and then touted it as high literature, you'd get the same reaction of outrage today.
"It's not dumbing it down," Smith said.
"We make the thing where they do their thing," he says, dumbing it down -- not condescendingly.
I'm expecting a keen and interested audience and I'm not dumbing it down in any way.
I found myself wishing that Ms. McKellar, who makes math relevant without dumbing it down, would cover the rest of the high school math curriculum — and that someone would do the equivalent for boys.
But Mr. Guare, in his first remarks about his experience at the Public, described the proposed alterations as "completely alien to the spirit of the play, that would have had the effect of dumbing it down".
