Sentence examples for simplistic narratives from inspiring English sources

These may be crude definitions, but another feature of the "forces of conservatism" is specialisation in overly simplistic narratives.

At this point, though, he had grown bored and disenchanted with conventional Hollywood films and their rigid three-act structures and simplistic narratives.

Half-baked external solutions, whose simplistic narratives may satisfy donors and a Western audience, often obscure the real issues and the challenges we face on the ground on a daily basis.

In her excellent essay Green Screen: The Lack of Female Road Narratives and Why it Matters, Vanessa Veselka says, "the only thing more dangerous than having simplistic narratives is having no narrative at all, which is deadly".

Its publication couldn't have come at a better moment, since foreign policy and media elites in the United States are now slipping back into ignoring Iraq's complicated realities and promoting simplistic narratives like "the surge has worked" and "we're winning".

Price described the mutual contempt that existed between journalists and political PRs, blaming the simplistic narratives that each side tried to impose on the other, as well as the laziness of journalists who relied on the spin-doctors to interpret politics for them.

As Congo expert Séverine Autessere wrote in a recent journal article, advocacy narratives tend to frame the policy debates that ensue -- and overly simplistic narratives can cause real harm.

How can we locate this movement or passage within mainstream cultural productions that took us from an approach that raised questions, created new audiovisual language and cultural metaphors (Twin Peaks, for example, or Werner Herzog's documentaries) to contemporary productions in which a prepackaged vision of basic, simplistic narratives dominates?