Sentence examples for has been dumb from inspiring English sources

She's suffered some badly written parts (Sam Raimi's 1990 "Darkman" takes the prize), but nobody has been dumb enough to cast her as a ditz.

Coincidentally, one of the biggest winners so far this week at the festival has been "Dumb Ways to Die," a public service campaign to promote rail safety from Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia, which was created by the Melbourne office of McCann Erickson Worldwide.

Feminism has been dumbed down into politeness and party-political promises for far too long.

"The term 'family office' has been dumbed down a little bit," he said.

It is not merely that the course that has been dumbed down; philosophy itself is being misrepresented.

The show has been dumbed down, its humor broadened past recognition, and the two episodes provided for review — Thursday's season premiere, "History 101," and the Feb.

But everything that made the first "Die Hard" memorable — the nuances of character, the political subtext, the cowboy wit — has been dumbed down or scrubbed away entirely.

And once we're at sea, the dialogue is terse, tense and delivers often complex technical minutiae clearly, without anything feeling as if it has been dumbed down.

Although the dress code has been dumbed down at the Four Seasons (it hasn't required ties since the 1960s), a jacket is still de rigueur in the dining rooms.

This, I believe, is the real key to the situation Sperber describes, because beer and circus are only the byproduct of a culture that has been dumbed down by the triumph of the corporate-commercial way of life.

But whether anyone thinks that yoga, or green juice, or Buddhism has been dumbed down is precisely the kind of needless context that Buddhism itself, as portrayed in Gopnik's article, seeks to eliminate from our perspective.