Robbie and Maize are intelligent, nice-looking, and fundamentally decent, and Sassone's straightforward prose declines to raise their quotidian conflicts to a high enough pitch.
But the analysis of Jeter, at least, is fairly straightforward, focusing on his decline as a player, which should not be too surprising.
In my Sunday column this week, on the respective careers of Andrew Breitbart and James Q . Wilson I pushed back against the tendency to see the shift to a more partisan and sensationalistic media (which empowers figures like Breitbart, Maher, Olbermann, etc., and arguably diminishes the potential influence of genuine eminences like Wilson) as a straightforward story of cultural decline.
It's easy to see the shift from Wilson's old-media conversation to Breitbart's new-media circus — from public intellectuals to talking heads, from social science to showmanship, from The Public Interest and Commentary to blogs and tweets and gossip — as a straightforward story of cultural decline.
A new online site (PsychFileDrawer.org) lets psychologists post results of replications of experiments whether they succeed or fail that would ordinarily never leave their file drawer because most journals decline to publish straightforward replication studies.
The assessment of the effect of age on cognitive decline is not straightforward as longitudinal data that span many decades are rare.
Second, when studying the interrelationships between three sets of variables as in this study (Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology, cerebrovascular disease and cognitive decline), it is straightforward to estimate and interpret the cognitive outcomes in each of these groups instead of interpreting the effect of two separate continuous pathology variables on cognition.
When two countries have nuclear weapons, a war may not be worth fighting.In the real world the dealings between rising and declining powers are not straightforward.
We're used to seeing the decline of newspapers generally as a straightforward consequence of internet growth.
The conflict was a straightforward struggle over money (the last profits of the declining fur trade) and land (the Connecticut River Valley, which has the region's most productive soil).
