| It's a tepid, dumbed-down attempt at making Othello palatable for young audiences. |
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| The back cover is where it breaks down, with Day-Glo images, dumbed-down text, and an overall less sophisticated feel. |
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| The movie celebrates the pleasures of conversation, a quality that's been denigrated over the last few dumbed-down decades of American film. |
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| It's still funnier and more interesting than most insultingly dumbed-down comedies. |
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| The problem today is not dumbed-down entertainment programmes, but the broader failure to promote intellectual and artistic standards. |
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| This is a serious comic novel, a withering satire on dumbed-down culture, a gently ironic look at devotions and ambitions, and a redemptive parable about coping with grief. |
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| To stifle opposition from big-money clients, some firms may give individual investors shorter, dumbed-down reports that get straight to the point. |
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| They have dumbed-down the debate on prevention and stifled the debate on causes. |
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| A lot of people think you can reach this community by delivering a dumbed-down, unbranded product. |
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| It would mark the apogee of a dumbed-down society, but it is unlikely to happen. |
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| Indeed, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is not just a game show but a dumbed-down game show. |
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| Do we have to put up with dumbed-down remakes of ideas from the past? |
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| Is it the real deal or just a dumbed-down lurch towards the lowbrow? |
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| Yet the Passat, unlike the dumbed-down Jetta, doesn't feel designed for the bargain bin. |
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| When in surface the Nautilus just acts as a dumbed-down version of a Monitor. |
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| Java has some sort of abomination called an anonymous class which is like a dumbed-down, slow and long-winded closure. |
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| The humour is so crass, to call it dumbed-down would be expansive. |
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| It brings to mind other wartime nostalgia films like Life is Beautiful, except without the mawkishness that ruins those dumbed-down crowd-pleasers. |
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| Considering that this is a television series, which usually indicates dumbed-down plots, the intricacy and darkness are both welcome and surprising. |
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| He argued it's part of politics' race to the bottom to appeal to a dumbed-down notion of middle Australia. |
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| Western audiences have been devastated by the impact of television-they are the most visually overwhelmed generation in history, so their idea of what constitutes the moving image experience is a dumbed-down version of life. |
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| Some critics have derided his work as dumbed-down and self-aggrandising. |
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| Writing is the most dumbed-down subject in our schools. |
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| The latest model is a dumbed-down version, if I'm frank. |
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| The dumbed-down résumé gets the biggest workout. |
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| Are even the best of us so conditioned to atheistic, dumbed-down, dominant left-brain thinking? |
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| The sneaker seems like a dumbed-down version of the athletic shoe. |
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| After initially hiring an editor for Copy Editor who, in our opinion, dumbed-down the newsletter, McMurry replaced him with Barbara Wallraff. |
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