The media should never apportion blame, give simplistic reasons for a suicide, publish photographs of the deceased or suicide notes.
The reason these people, who seem to be mainly male, talentless, 30-something layabouts, conform to such ideals is because they are simplistic.
As he suggests, linking artistic motivation with money purely to increase the ease of studying copyright would be too simplistic.
While Ranade deploys the resources of the surrealist tradition to achieve his ends, it would be simplistic to gloss his work under that rubric.
The simplistic rubber plug for the presta only valve stems makes it so easy to use.
It would be tactlessly trite and simplistic to say that because Camara has suffered personally then he could not be hurt professionally.
Perhaps I am being a tad simplistic here, obviously there's the issue of passive smoking.
This particular rant had been initiated by Nicholas' ill-advised attempt to employ a parry to block the simplistic head-thrust from the robot.
However, the raw emotion in the vocals and the simplistic backing draws your attention and forces you to give the lyrics a chance to shine.
But it lacks the meaty substance of its predecessors, and feels too fluffy, light, and simplistic to truly work.
When news was presented in a sensational form, it certainly evokes simplistic responses.
Criticize the moronic politics and you get a sermon about not reducing works of art to a simplistic set of objective declarations.
This appraisal is as tough, uncompromising and brutally simplistic as many of Brogden's law-and-order policies.
At the outset, a solution to Bangalore's clogging drains can't be that simplistic.
This is a bit of a simplistic take on what could be a very in depth and complex topic.
A much broader spectrum of historians reject such simplistic monocausal explanations.
He believes that this simplistic art form came into being only to develop the aesthetic sense.
Thus, in the same week, he can offer two stunningly simplistic views of social complexity.
I know that sounds simplistic, but it's hard to describe in more complex terms!
It is simplistic to treat strategic choice just as the logical comparison of strategic options.
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This is probably a simplistic take on the importance of the issue by both parties.
It raises these issues in a dramatic and involving way without ever becoming simplistic and is well worth seeing.
Drug misuse is too complex a problem to be solved with a simplistic, zero tolerance approach.
For, even by his simplistic hypothesis, it is difficult to tell in which half Floyd lies.
The research is an attempt to move away from simplistic polarisation and address the more complex issues.
I know that naive and simplistic but I just feel that while these trees and plants are nice they are out of context.
It's an overly simplistic label, one that has stopped us wanting to open up her box and see what's really inside.
Quantum mechanics contradicts the notion of real only if one takes a naive, simplistic view of reality.
I know it is simplistic, but I wish everyone, everywhere, could live harmoniously.
He treated us as children, he told us a simplistic fairy story laced with cheap flattery.
There is a lot of paradoxes, and a simplistic judgment can be very badly wrong.
It was lame, it was dumb, and it was simplistic, but we loved it if only because it was something that we were doing with a friend.
Admittedly, this is a simplistic analogy, but it captures the essence of the issue.
But I hope that here we can avoid that kind of simplistic muckraking and have a serious discussion about judicial philosophy.
There is a growing trend away from skeuomorphic designs towards more simplistic and minimal type interfaces.
Secondly, it is overly simplistic to say that media images alone cause women's body image to change.
It's overly simplistic to label a player insecure or unsure of his masculinity.
The second chapter provides an introduction to clinical neuroanatomy where Pliszka seeks to make neuroanatomy simple, without being simplistic.
The dropping of a simplistic synth line in the bridge and eventual chorus only sweetens the deal.
Putting it that way, of course, would have made it far more difficult to draw simplistic moral conclusions.
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The countryman went from ruggedly unsophisticated to casually erudite in one quick addition of something so simplistic as a pair of spectacles.
He realized that audiences want budgetary excess coupled with simplistic romance more than highly personal films of emotional strength.
While his vocals do seem to lack some of the energy and vigor that I expected, he still makes each word writhe in the most simplistic way.
Some of his advice may seem simplistic in the extreme but it is important nonetheless.
This sounds a little simplistic, but you'd be surprised how many airplanes out there haven't had their static systems checked or VORs calibrated.
There are a lot of very simplistic statements made about the relative standards of living between the United States and Europe.
I guess the spammers tools are too simplistic to even attempt to break the captcha.
Despite the simplistic advertising campaigns, excessive speed is not a feature in 80 per cent of fatal car crashes.
Overall, Temptation is a sad affair carried by simplistic melodies that have been mixed and layered to cavernous depths.
As a result of their simplistic attitude a narrow strand of Disciplinarian theology is inflated to embrace the whole of Reformed orthodoxy.
Woolcott argues it's too simplistic to take the moral high ground in international politics.
Granting myself the luxury of succinctness, I would like to keep a simplistic dualism in the text that follows.
The method is simplistic and tends to overvalue the brands, but it is used by brand buyers for that very reason.
As simplistic as this may sound, she instinctively understands the power of compound interest.
Like his best work, the songs are irresistibly hooky without being simplistic, though the first single is oddly the weakest tune of the bunch.
Tony plays these super simplistic lines over some generic guitar chording, and all the action is provided by the sequencers.
He comes across as a shallow, inarticulate man, simplistic in speech and inauthentic in manner.
Yet it is too simplistic to suggest that these raiders had it coming to them.
I think premillennialism is dangerous, because this inclines you to simplistic and dangerous positions.
The art program used to be very simplistic, but it has become a nicely featured program due to user requests for changes.
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It is simplistic to think that countries can industrialise by copying or reverse-engineering foreign technology.
But such a simplistic analysis surely bears no relation to the complexities of the situation.
I won't mention what this trite, simplistic, sloganeering piffle moves me to, but it has nothing to do with naming children.
To suggest the issue will be solved by piping water from the coast to the inland is too simplistic and fraught with hidden future complications.
Between them they come up with a tale that is occasionally engaging, often inscrutable, and in the end simplistic.
In liberal mythology it's conservatives and reactionaries who take the simplistic view.
This is a brilliant antidote to the usual simplistic interpretations of imperialist adventures.
I know this sounds a very simplistic solution to a very complex issue, but I am convinced of its truth.
The maniacal, simplistic tone of this book is guaranteed to irritate anyone who ever had a thought of their own.
From the opening chapters onward, he continually asks questions of himself, reasoning through his emotions in an irritatingly simplistic manner.
The Greek middle classes fare not much better in Tsiolkas's simplistic, one-dimensional portrayal.
Some may find this ending rather simplistic, but the note of positiveness that Leigh tries to strike is what appealed to me.
But it is too simplistic to counterpose the idea of Mozart as a product of the Enlightenment to the idea of the composer as a born genius.
To state baldly that it's purely between the woman and her doctor is crass and simplistic at the very least.
The hero's journey, however, need not be anywhere as simplistic as in the brief precis above.
Of course, it would be simplistic to equate pre-digital classical photography with the index.
In the traditional, simplistic Darwinian view, adaptation is some form of optimal fit with a given world.
While this may seem a bit simplistic, it actually describes how profanity can exist in a sacred universe.
Masking the witches also moves them from a simplistic medieval notion of devilry and further towards symbolism.
Historically, B movies have existed as simplistic, inexpensive distillations of Hollywood's big-budget genre fare.
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They also promote a stunningly simplistic and distorted view of French politics.
But his explanation was little more than simplistic rhetoric about how evildoers had wronged us and they would now be forced to pay.
Its main drawback is that it is based on the unrealistic and simplistic assumptions of two countries producing only two goods.
Their understanding is simplistic and they see rules in black and white terms.
An eerie synth dances with reverb-heavy guitar, while a simplistic, cool bass line keeps time with a snare.
So simplistic a statement certainly calls for some immediate qualifications.
The argument was somewhat simplistic, and off on some facts, but the room was packed, and no one was quibbling over details.
But it does rest on two weak assumptions steeped in a simplistic view of race.
His faith was in a simplistic Keynesianism that said willy-nilly government spending could cure the downturn.
Both of these notions are simplistic and ahistorical, and I'll try to argue that they're shortsighted.
It is also too simplistic to think of all monks as living off the fat of the land and benefiting from the labour of others.
And if good can come from evil, does this undermine a simplistic Manichean view of morality?
This is not only unsupported by the text, it also takes the mystery out of the play, reducing it to a simplistic piece of psychological realism.
The complexities of the quality of social relationships would be reduced to such simplistic proxy variables.
This is when a politician reduces a complex situation to a simplistic argument for the sole purpose of political gain.
Their speech is poor, short, simplistic, and reductive of the complexity of the situation.
His insights into naked human emotion are simplistic at best, and crude and uncouth at their worst.
Unfortunately, on this scale, the shapes are too simplistic, the edges too regimented.
Julie Flynn, the Chief Executive of Free TV Australia says Labor's ban is simplistic and won't work.
Here the group combines trombone, a simplistic guitar line, and what sounds like either a marimba or a xylophone.
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A simplistic reiteration of the Stability Pact's main provisions avoids the problem, rather than resolving it.
The openings have gone from simplistic to extravagant, featuring funny monologues, dance numbers, and lots of celebrities.
Once again we find that nature is unkind to simplistic formulations.
Or to assume that he believes in the addled and simplistic economics of austerity that would drive the nation back into recession.
Although it makes no sense, this simplistic line has been repeated ad nauseam until it has ossified into accepted fact.
I have had to re-examine this simplistic philosophy now I've relocated to southern California, where the cult of the body beautiful is pursued with religious fervour.
Russell sets out to expose simplistic and overly optimistic views about the attainability of truth and rationality and he demonstrates effectively the need for caution.
Sir Nicholas Henderson, who was in the job when Reagan was elected, described him as a dogmatic and simplistic man.
Thomas, who made her name with simplistic, housewife-friendly broadcasts, is competent and talkative, but the sexiness quotient?
But if Gray is a great political writer who can condense power struggles into arresting and superficially simplistic formulas, he is a remarkably unpolitical character too.
We cannot keep judging mothers by a primitive, antiquated, simplistic standard.
In the most simplistic notion, each book would be one season of television.
Others who served in Iraq at the time however said this was far too simplistic.
There is an element of simplistic categorization in portraying the upper class Raj and his family as decadent, and counterpoising Prem and his family as morally good.
Foucault carefully avoids being so historiographically simplistic.
The rejectionist absolutism of Morris and others is simplistic, a-historical, full of inaccuracies and arrogantly one-sided.
Jodi Rudoren, the Times Jerusalem bureau chief, is the author of this simplistic and, frankly, bizarre article.
The result is long passages of simplistic monologue explaining basic Marxism in an entirely unconvincing manner, making the characters appear as cardboard cut-outs.
However, an insidious form of segregation, happening within the educational system, belies this simplistic view.
The simplistic explanation, that the battlefield is a borderless region, is disingenuous.
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As a result, there can be no question of moving from commandments to counsels in a simplistic way, and no sense that perfection involves supererogation.
God, therefore, cannot be reduced to or contained by any theological rhetoric or exegetical attempt to make simplistic the complexity and mystery of a transcendent God.
Yet it would appear even that even this explanation is too simplistic.
His politics are jaw-droppingly simplistic for the most part, particularly from about the 15th film onwards, and yet you look back at them with great affection.
This type of simplistic abstract stratification of the world economy and power subordinates the dynamic of class relations to a static distribution of market shares.
In presenting the main outlines of the orthodox theory, he is refreshingly free of the arrogance and simplistic dogmatism that seems to permeate the subject.
The commentary, from many national, ethnic, and gender perspectives, helps to skillfully cut away facile associations and simplistic modes of naming.
Councillor Carty said it was too simplistic for sceptics to suggest that moving the dump a kilometre or two would eliminate the possibility of bird-strike on an aircraft.
Marketing drives much of the blabber about blubber, and the best way to hook a mass audience is to make a diet plan as simplistic and one-dimensional as possible.
His oversimplification of the conflict demands that he delegitimize the views of those who dissent from his simplistic narrative.
If the artist's approach often tends to such simplistic judgements, it also degenerates into prissy political correctness and schoolmarmy cluck clucking.
From the untamed poetry of D's seemingly unscripted rants, or the simplistic shower-ditties that he haphazardly harmonizes throughout, I can't help but feel this.
Slipping on a straitjacket of simplistic logic, we come to believe that the disorder must, or at the very least should, be overcome by an application of willpower.
To reduce these experiences to simplistic dichotomies and folk concepts erases the complexity of embodied experiences and the cultural logic that underpins them.
Yet, in spite of a distinct stress on the links between science and industry, the author eschews any simplistic monocausal explanation of the Industrial Revolution.
This was taken up by archaeologists during the 1960s, but under the glare of the mature processual archaeology of the 1970s and 1980s appeared rather simplistic.
The mood is a somber one, but the funk still is present in the simplistic drum machine as it shuffles its way towards the end of the seven minute track.
Everything is done with exaggerated slowness, which seems a rather cheap way of adding profundity to some fairly simplistic ideas about war not being a very good thing.
And to simply characterize Koch as a Democratic detractor, and a Republican right-winger, would be, well, simplistic.
Without him, in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a strong chance that the popular poetry revival of that time would have ended up gutlessly simplistic.
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The mojo tales are variedly frightening, mysterious, tongue-in-cheek, curious, exciting, didactic and deceptively simplistic, but almost always interesting.
We drank wine from the bottle and slobbered our spittle into simplistic belches of conversations that were actually ideological rhetoric and nonsense we could both agree with.
Luckily, there's still plenty of outmoded and simplistic theories.
While it may be tempting to blame these killings on some extreme form of sibling rivalry, most cases of fratricide or sororicide defy such a simplistic explanation.
It's elegantly put together on high-grade paper, the writers are almost all well known in this segment, and the design is simplistic and beautiful.
And here I am yapping about 70s interior design, my knowledge of which stems entirely from simplistic humiliation of a few Better Homes and Gardens design books.
This is a far cry from Corbon's more simplistic description of the Eucharistic canon as prelude, liturgy of the word, anaphora, communion, and finale.
With our invariably simplistic tendency to summarize any given issue into Good vs. Bad, the courts are held up as the primary counterpoint to the criminal element of society.
He was adept at answering simplistic criticism with simplistic retorts.
This is why the dualistic divide between pro and anti-communists has always appeared to me as a simplistic product of the rivalry between the two superpowers.
Castle'' does a difficult double belly flop as it manages to be howlingly simplistic and ridiculously illogical at the same time.
The original product, with its simplistic design, has undergone many enhancements over the years.
The work itself is very simplistic, featuring only the shark in a watery substance, which at first glance looks clear like glass.
In the late 1990s the logo was changed to a more simplistic design to the old one.
Early theories positing the simple, unilineal evolution of societies from traditional to industrial model are now seen as too simplistic.
Its discussion of bureaucratic control is simplistic, chiefly advocating punishment and reward.
To be simplistic, academic freedom is the freedom applied within the academic establishment.
To immediately assume that anyone who participates in a sport like ours must be animalist is a naive and simplistic way of looking at things.
Up front there is a simplistic, clutter-free design, with all dials, controls and read-outs perfectly positioned for driver usability.
This is a useful addition to the simplistic 'out of' feature since it helps us make sense of improper fractions like thirteen-tenths.
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However, the scenario of cold, dry glacials, and warm, wet interglacials is rather too simplistic.
The lesson here would seem to be that simplistic Biblical literalism had to be on the side of the pro-slavery apologists.
A more simplistic example of self-correcting forces is the venerable law of supply and demand.
I liked the simplistic design of the grip, although it was a bit tackier than I prefer.
In my own simplistic explanation, SLE re-programs cells, in particular defender or phagocytotic cells, to identify and attack native tissue.
More to the point, in falling over itself to honour dignity it's all rather morally simplistic and in several instances, stagily contrived.
The chapter on technology as a solution to academic disengagement is suppositional, simplistic, and limited in scope.
Stressing this point helps distinguish a sophisticated Humean position from the simplistic emotivism of early twentieth century moral philosophy.
Ducktails is a side project of Real Estate guitarist Matt Mondanile, and fans of the band's melodic, simplistic tunesmithery will feel right at home with St Catherine.
A policy scoffed at by trendy lefties as simplistic and unlikely.
But trying to shoehorn dinosaurs into one of two camps might be too simplistic, says John Grady, a paleoecologist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
This is also important because, in the past, most economists have tended to either underemphasize the problem or present a somewhat simplistic view of it.
These debates can be difficult to navigate and are all too easily reduced to simplistic reflections of individual taste and vulnerable to journalistic beat-ups.
Better guidelines are needed to warn shoppers about the environmental impact of their food beyond simplistic food miles, Welsh experts have warned.
Clark among others, has noted the great ambiguities that lie within him, and the probability that Lubbock's polymathy will resist simplistic rendering.
Genres investigated included classical, heavy metal and a simplistic psychoacoustic classical composition marketed specifically for dog relaxation.
Although in its simplistic sense globalization refers to the widening, deepening and speeding up of global interconnection, such a definition begs further elaboration.
Lunt offer explanations that go beyond simplistic attempts to attribute 'ethnicity' on prima facie interpretation of literary, philological, and archaeological evidence.
During the Kofun period of the 3rd to 6th century CE, haniwa terracotta figures of humans and animals in a simplistic style were erected outside important tombs.
Current conceptions of gnathostome phylogeny depict a rather simplistic arrangement of nominally monophyletic and, apparently, morphologically disparate groups.
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Otherwise one remains trapped in a false ideology that would confuse gender and politics, or in simplistic gender baiting that is more often than not mere name calling.
The book reduces a number of complex gray areas to simplistic black and white, making the volume's title, ironically, more apt than the authors may have intended.
But if you're sick to the teeth of simplistic barre chords played on overamped fuzz guitar under the bleating, sheeplike vocals of the insufferable Eddie Vedder, stay away.

No, not along this line of one-dimensional, linear, simplistic form of determinism.
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
I urge Congress to continue on this steady path and resist the simplistic solutions that have been proposed as alternatives.
The Discourse typifies Sheridan's simplistic interpretation and the evangelistic ardor with which he addressed his audiences.
It would be far too simplistic to reward individual surgeons according to the outcome of operations.
Cara's Dune Buggy Dash game follows a simplistic yet addictive format with the user coming back to try and top the high score board.
But it's simplistic to infer that Scots voters elected an SNP Government because of flag-waving jingoism.
And, yes, the peace was far from perfect but matters were hardly as simplistic as he would have us believe.
Ed Balls is being very simplistic in thinking a blazer results in improved behaviour.
Briggs' thesis is well-intentioned but somewhat simplistic in its final analysis.
I have been rejected by many of their kind for being too dense and vapid, and often by publishers for being simplistic and unsalable.
This is a simplistic and inaccurate picture of religious teachings.

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