Its somewhat simplistic, off-kilter rhymes falter a bit at the end, but the narration benefits enormously from witty illustrations by Murphy ("Hush Little Dragon"), which abound in slithery, sinister asides: a stacking toy stacks on a bone; a Totoro-like ghost trails a larger figure.
But it's far too simplistic to write off the selfie phenomenon.
"It's too simplistic to write off any capital-led project as edifice-building – investment in universities was not discarded as 'top-down meddling'".
The real question may be: Can't one knuckleheaded barber in a sweet, somewhat simplistic film spout off?
Three variations on this theme -- a wagon, pickup and coupe -- share squared-off, simplistic styling and advanced voice-activated technologies that would let drivers personalize the controls, make phone calls and manage e-mail on the road.
There's a more important question than the simplistic "are you better off?" Voters should ask themselves — and their leaders — how to keep this and future generations better off.
The contradiction between the plain facts of the data and the tepid feel of the recovery suggests that the recession created a more important question than the simplistic "are you better off?" Voters should ask themselves — and their leaders — how to keep this and future generations better off.
Its simplistic attitudes apparently set off an internal reexamination; at least it started a decade's artistic wanderings.
Historians, too, have tried to dismiss "The Age of Reason," writing it off as simplistic and suggesting either that Paine wrote it to please his French jailers or that, in prison, he went mad.
The space-war razzle-dazzle will appeal, and youngsters won't be turned off by simplistic characters who for all the movie's visual accomplishments, act and talk as if they belong in Saturday morning cartoons.
Back in 2012, Romney's rhetoric on trade was brushed off as simplistic and naïve - easy to dismiss as political posturing by pundits with zero skin in the game.
