simple-minded

Example Sentences

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"This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence," she said.

From BBC • Jul. 14, 2024

Xist consists of RNA, a substance best known for being a simple-minded messenger that shuttles genes' instructions for making proteins to the intracellular machines that make them.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

All of this underlying dramatic texture is possible because Kaurismäki uses actors capable of developing salt-of-the-earth types beyond mere simple-minded objects of pity.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023

There have always been eccentric, senile and downright simple-minded members of Congress.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023

Unlike the other constituents, they obeyed no simple-minded rules telling us the angles at which they would form their respective chemical bonds.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson