I've refused roles because they're too simplistic.
Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.
People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.
Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.
There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.
The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.
Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'
It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.
We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music.
Aerow creates a drawn out sense of pressure with the use of rather simplistic. Quite frankly, [the music] is fantastic.
But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.
Few things trigger fear and misconception more than economic tribulation, and nothing prompts elected officials to react with more simplistic populism.
I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.
Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...
My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world.
