But Oscar voters tend to take their historical politics at simplistic face value.
These candidates are peddling the worst kind of easy fairy tales to those voters who value simplistic prescriptions over hard choices.
Of course, I must hasten to add that these are simplistic (and at face value, false) assumptions, but they do shed some insight on this question.
With its focus on student numbers, regulation and research, the higher education sector is missing a trick in not flagging up the risks of simplistic arguments about the value of creating jobs in the private rather than the public sector.
On the simplistic metric of enterprise value per patent, H.P. paid about $750,000 for each of Palm's roughly 1,600, in line with what Apple, Microsoft and the others did for Nortel's collection.
The notion of a one-to-one relationship between transcription and translation is clearly too simplistic, and exemplifies the value of integrated proteomics/transcriptomics studies.
Anthony Appiah, chairman of African studies at Harvard, finds any single explanation overly simplistic: "Clearly history, habits, values, religious institutions all matter but lumping them all together under the label 'culture' is too broad to be very useful," he said.
While this may be of benefit in certain patients, bringing all patients to similar, supranormal values, is simplistic.
It said that game includes everything from hidden items, simplistic gameplay, fun and replay value, and basic but good-looking graphics.
Beatty is hilarious showing his new black consciousness, and though his comedic talent could have been bolstered even more by a sharper political wit, the film moved into brave territory that unlike other un-PC lampoons, rarely plays simplistic or merely for shock value.
