Sentence examples for simplified stories from inspiring English sources

Blum was raised in an upper-middle-class family in New Martinsville, West Virginia, but the disconnect he explores is less a matter of class, specifically, than of simplified stories versus complicated ones.

Today it's back to simplified stories and sheer indoctrination.

Hollywood's business model requires that movies are "dumbed down," with cut scenes, removed characters and simplified stories to appeal to the largest possible global population; one recent example is the English version of the science fiction film "Snowpiercer," by Korean director Bong Joon-Ho.

Instead students tell simplified stories that help them make sense of their world (Driver et al., 1994; Wilson et al., 2006; Mohan et al., 2009).

She has taken key phrases from King's early life and from his speeches, and used them as markers in telling a simplified story of his life.

(All ages) Key phrases from King's early life have been used as markers in telling a simplified story of his life, illustrated as a magisterial drama.

The simplifications and sanitizations of "Brooklyn" would be only dreary if they merely served the purpose of a streamlined and simplified story-telling mechanism.

But he tells an essentially simplified story with practised skill: at least he puts Kazakhstan where it firmly belongs - near the top of any intensive diplomatic reading list for the 21st century.

Obama bought into this simplified story.

"The museum tells a kind of simplified story of what the trials did tell," said Jacob Wiebel, an academic who lectures in African history at the University of Durham.

In a video interview with The Huffington Post last week, the retired NBA superstar said that these days, he better understands why the media works the way it does, why reporters ask such probing questions and why journalists sometimes bypass ambiguity and complexity in favor of a more simplified story -- one easily packaged with a salacious headline atop it.