So I look at the environment, really, through a relatively simplistic lens, perhaps too simplistic of a lens.
Among many analysts, the conflict is often seen through a simplistic lens similar to that applied to the civil war in Syria, where Tehran has helped prop up the regime of President Bashar al-Assad while the Saudis and other Gulf nations have lent backing to Sunni rebel forces.
It seems like most Princeton students understand New Jersey through only a few, simplistic lenses.
The Iraqi psyche, weighted by history and past grievances, still frames political issues through a simplistic sectarian lens: Shiites fear the restoration of Sunni power, and many Sunnis — who feel they are the natural leaders — are beholden to their resentments over the Shiite empowerment wrought by America's war.
Looking at the issue of kidnapping solely through the lens of ransoms is overly simplistic, said the family of Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who died in captivity after being seized in northern Syria by Islamic State, Isis.
But by looking at the region exclusively through the oil lens, he reduces foreign policy to simplistic energy imperialism, concluding with exaggerated visions of endless energy wars, floods of refugees, oil price shocks and ever-growing foreign military commitments.
The United States was always simplistic in seeing Iraq, before the invasion, through the lens of sect and ethnicity.
And some Muslims say that the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament contain simplistic rules which are rendered more sophisticated when read through the lens of the Koran.
In the tradition of Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and all the others, No Man's Sky seeks, in a simplistic yet honest way, to consider the philosophical questions of existence through the lens of science fiction.
Not through a newspaper poll or a content controlled TV channel, but in your seat at home, using a visual interactive map that provides not numbers or over-simplistic phrases, but real people, speaking from their hearts, right into the lens of a camera.
