Cut down, in this case, did not mean dumbed down.
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I think this debate has become so dumbed down beyond belief.
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For Meyerhold, "decipherable" did not mean dumbed-down or simply entertaining.
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America's been dumbed down over the years, which is a shame.
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But there's a catch — his new "smartphone" has been severely dumbed down.
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It doesn't play as a dumbed-down version of the show, however.
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Whatever again you think of them, that's not a dumbed-down ticket.
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Yes, the #blessed generation is demanding even their cookies be dumbed down.
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We don't need dumbed down versions of diversity, or uncomplicated representations of love.
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There were message board rumors that Auburn dumbed down their playbook for him.
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Just because it's for kids doesn't mean it has to be dumbed down.
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Finkel's excellent book, neither full of jargon nor dumbed down, speaks persuasively to both.
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"The college process may be dumbed down from what they do in high school."
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SG: They marched off because they thought it was a dumbed-down picture book.
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"This president has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration," Galli wrote.
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I don't ... I think it's sort of a dumbed-down version of something important.
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So naturally, Ghost in the Shell has gotten dumbed down as much as possible.
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I'd rather that than motherfuckers always expecting me to have some dumbed-down ass shit.
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We wouldn't trust our families' health to doctors who only passed dumbed-down board exams.
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"He knows how to manipulate a dumbed-down population," he said at a press conference.
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It's those elements that make it feel like more of a dumbed-down TV movie.
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Nolan insisted to fans that they haven't dumbed down the narrative with this new approach.
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I no longer believe that listening to readers leads to dumbed-down journalism, if handled well.
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And even a dumbed-down version of the Pollock strategy could probably break a few logjams.
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Even Medusa, who was my gateway into mythology and monstrousness, is dumbed-down by the d'Aulaires.
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A lot of times when people think of accessibility, they think things need to be 'dumbed down.
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During the hearing, Chairman Chaffetz noted that Mylan's "dumbed down financials" did not make sense without explanation.
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"Most elementary school products are dumbed-down versions of high school products," says co-founder Carl Sjogreen.
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Front Burner Recipes in the Culinary Institute of America's new cookbook for children are not dumbed down.
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The strats worried about being dumbed down, employees say, while the I.T. engineers worried about being marginalized.
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Thankfully, the menu wasn't dumbed down; our dishes were some of the same on the regular menu.
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He dumbed down his inherited faith instead of helping it to address the challenges of modern times.
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The future of apps is supposedly progressive web apps and emebedded dumbed down app functionality inside chat apps.
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That, of course, was a dumbed-down explanation of the procedure, which may be different for different people.
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Duolingo could've dumbed-down its course by simply using Romaji, which represents Japanese sounds in the western alphabet.
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Gone (or seriously dumbed down) is rushing, turtling, unit amassing, flank attacks, map exploring, and tech tree development.
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In the 20th century, we needed to have it dumbed down because everybody needed to pay for memory.
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I don't think there were that many proper simulation games, and games in general got more dumbed down.
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Being a woman does not mean that I'm only interested in cutesy, dumbed-down versions of craft beer.
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And in no time their erudite comedy is as dumbed-down and tattered as an overused CliffsNotes guide.
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And the new dumbed-down gallery headings and word salads of the main wall texts definitely need work.
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You write that some "dumbed-down corollaries" of postmodernism have seeped into the thinking of the populist right.
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The free virtual reality minigame feels like a dumbed down version of the classic PC game X-Wing, reborn.
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"The original message was to eat less saturated fat, which got dumbed down to, 'Eat less fat,'" he says.
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Partly because the sound of music has dumbed down (in my opinion) and social media spreads the message faster.
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When I was growing up, that's what racing was all about, not some dumbed down formula with spec cars.
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Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah and committee chairman, called Bresch out during the hearing for using "dumbed down" numbers.
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It's the kind of development that only happens when characters need to momentarily dumbed down in order advance the story.
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With the move to more traditional cooking, nothing is dumbed down or purposefully altered for Western tastes — quite the opposite.
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There is nothing inegalitarian about catering to this curiosity, just as there is nothing egalitarian about doling out dumbed-down drivel.
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I began small, by forcing myself to try versions of trends I liked, dumbed down for plus-size women, of course.
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I'm actually really happy with the way the technical stuff dumbed down, because people seem to understand what they need to understand.
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Audiences, after all, can be dumbed down or lured into rating inflation by the very online services that purport to measure quality.
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Many schools across the country are just starting to move from the dumbed-down standards of the past, and that takes time.
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All, to him, were evidence that a crucial industry was being dumbed down into infotainment for the sake of the profit motive.
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The reason many are not shocked about this is that this president has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration.
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It's small and affordable enough to serve as a great entry point without the sacrificed, dumbed-down approach of some entry-level products.
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Adding a bunch of new features would make the Light Phone very heavy, more like a dumbed-down smartphone than their artistic invention.
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With its oversimplified emotions and dumbed-down depiction of the creative process, this inoffensive time-filler dissolves in the mouth like vanilla pudding.
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Delivered with wit and lightness by Vedantam, "Hidden Brain" is digestible without ever being dumbed down, and embodies an open-mindedness that becomes infectious.
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I don't know how much information the tyro pol in the Oval has absorbed — or even wants to absorb — in his dumbed-down briefings.
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So I was expecting a dumbed-down version of the Lexus experience, a futile attempt to bring the brand closer to the millennial buyer.
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It's no great revelation to say that political debates tend to be somewhat dumbed down and involve a lot of sloganeering on all sides.
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And, Chowdhry and Khan specifically wanted to focus on South Asian Muslim American stories, which they felt were either being ignored, vilified, or dumbed-down.
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Because of the gatekeepers and the labels and the typical rock writers, we were so truncated, so trivialized, so dumbed down to one little thing.
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The old stereotype used to be that women wouldn't like tech unless it was dumbed down, pink, or sparkly, but now, the industry is changing.
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In our dumbed-down, social-media-driven age, "Against Everything" embodies a return to the pleasures of critical discourse at its most cerebral and personable.
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But they are loaded with excellent recipes that are not dumbed down for children, which means that grown-ups will want to eat them, too.
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Productivity, outcomes, output and graduate rates dictate campus culture with the result that curriculum is dumbed down to "meet the needs" of the student-consumer.
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Moreover, SoundCloud Go, its premium product, hasn't exactly pulled in paying users—in fact, the company had to launch a dumbed-down, cheaper version last month.
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"Kodi and the plugin system and the people who made these plugins have just dumbed down the process," says Dan Deeth, spokesperson for network-equipment company Sandvine.
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"Resurgence" may be too slapdash and dumbed-down to have anywhere near the seismic impact of its predecessor, but it can be enjoyable in its cartoonish dopeyness.
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" Galli goes further, digging into the behavior of the man in the Oval Office, noting that Trump "has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration.
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Take $30 off the Fire HD 10 tablet See Details This tablet is for kids, but it's not a dumbed down toy version of a regular Fire tablet.
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Things just get dumbed down to these buzz terms and I actually think Michael's dribbling paint around has virtually nothing to do with Pollock in any real way.
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Even at 210, Wilson wasn't sold on Hollywood's obsession with making kids adorable and resented changes to the John Hughes script that she believed dumbed down her role.
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Video: iVideos/YouTube Of course, if you'd prefer a dumbed-down, inebriated version of the story, there's always this Drunk History segment on the mission narrated by Kyle Kinane.
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Critics of niche and social media today also see a dumbed-down society, but one that's polarized and agitated, divided and subdivided into mutually hostile subcultures and media bubbles.
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Nor would they have succeeded if the party faithful hadn't forgotten, or never learned, why the warmed-over Marxism or dumbed-down nationalism each championed was so thoroughly discredited.
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" Their letter pointed out that Chaffetz said during the hearing that Mylan's "dumbed down financials" don't make sense without explanation, and that Cummings had said, "your numbers don't add up.
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Since the classes for ESL (English-as-a-second-language) students were taught in English, which we were still struggling to understand, my school basically dumbed down the entire curriculum.
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"Chef's Table" star and James Beard award-winning chef Dan Barber thinks mass-produced vegetables have been "dumbed down" to the point where they all look and taste the same.
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And when Orci was replaced by Justin Lin—a guy best known for directing three Fast and the Furious films—fans began to fear an even more dumbed-down Star Trek.
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" AND NOW, A WORD FROM CHARLES… "In a culture where everything from textbooks to television to SATs has been renormed and dumbed down, one should be grateful for an intellectual challenge.
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"Instead of this kind of dumbed-down approach, where we treat people without knowing much more about them, we will have a far greater handle at many levels," he tells us.
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Last May, Microsoft fired its shot across the bow with Windows 10 S — a dumbed-down version of its operating system intended to take on the Chromebook with ultra-cheap hardware.
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The university had to be convinced, first of all, that it was gonna be extremely high-quality, that this wasn't gonna be some dumbed-down version of what they've done because.
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Basically, "Grand Hotel" plays like a more straightforward, dumbed-down version of the hotel shenanigans in "Jane the Virgin," the truly grand CW dramedy that's heading into its final flurry of episodes.
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It has created some of the most beloved series around, yes, but it is also the company known by some for things like downloadable horse armor, paid mods, and dumbed-down RPGs.
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One prevailing idea among this audience is that Oblivion's ambition to be accessible resulted in a "dumbed-down" version of Morrowind—and, frankly, that's something that rings true with a direct comparison.
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Critics had mixed reactions, with some describing the film as "dumbed down, tarted up, and almost shockingly uninspired," while others lauded the movie for breathing "new life" into the "Spider-Man" franchise.
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The borrowers on air are still responsible for their debt, but instead of resolving to work for decades pay it off, they take a crack at answering deliberately dumbed-down trivia questions.
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And then came the selfie, the 2013 Oxford English Dictionary Word of the Year, which has been equally praised as an empowering cultural exclamation and hated-upon as a dumbed-down vanity exercise.
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Unfortunately, members of the Tea Party killed the effort in Congress, Republican senators abandoned the effort, and Trump's election campaign dumbed down the GOP's immigration policy platform to three words: build a wall.
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The series — a relatively loyal adaptation of the source material — proves there is now a place on television for complicated, massive stories, and that adaptations don't necessarily need to be dumbed down or simplified.
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A note for people who, like me, were concerned that Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu is a dumbed down version of Pokémon for kids: It is, in the sense that the game is extremely easy.
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The whole package has a feel akin to a quality animated movie or TV series—You know it's safe and accessible for your kids, but it doesn't feel like it's dumbed down for them.
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If Star Wars: Tie Fighter is the Flight Simulator of Star Wars games, Rogue Squadron is the easier but still fun version, and the Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission is even more dumbed down.
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is sexed up and dumbed down in a bid for appeal—no offense to sex and stupidity, but if they're not happening in the service of a killer plot, keep 'em.
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The novel never hit shelves because its authors refused drug executives' zanier demands: lengthy polemics against the evils of government regulation and "dumbed down" prose, which they deemed critical in order to appeal to women readers.
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But whether anyone thinks that yoga, or green juice, or Buddhism has been dumbed down is precisely the kind of needless context that Buddhism itself, as portrayed in Gopnik's article, seeks to eliminate from our perspective.
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Fan discouraged me from trying to play "Seven Nation Army" because it was too complicated, but I'm pretty sure I could pick up a guitar and start playing a dumbed-down version of it right this second.
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One popular option is to start the child off with dumbed-down mobile devices, like feature phones that can only send text messages or place phone calls, and to assess whether they can use those devices responsibly.
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In concept stage, at least, their design imparted a playful structural dynamism, but now that the building is reaching completion, it seems to have been dumbed down into a run-of-the-mill North Miami Beach residential tower.
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I wouldn't say any of these videos are a "dumbed-down" version of the NBA built for the eyes and ears and hearts of children, but only because mainstream sports discourse isn't exactly A Portrait of a Lady.
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They don't start at the beginning of time, and even if they follow the dumbed-down "This is me, I'm from a town called X" format, you're going to be thrown into a universe you never previously knew existed.
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The frequently used imagery of young, white children, (American citizens naturally), who are pictured in the dumbed-down sensationalized public awareness campaigns with duct tape over their mouths, in handcuffs and chains, imploring the public for rescue ignores that complexity.
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Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan play Beverly and Sean, married British television writers whose erudite award-winning sitcom about the headmaster of an elite boys' school is dumbed down by a Hollywood studio, with the starring role going to Mr. LeBlanc.
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While it's true she felt, as she once told me, "dumbed down" by the car accident and brain damage that would eventually render her even more susceptible to the early-onset of Alzheimer's that already runs in our family, she was not unhappy.
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For those of you familiar with using PGP, ProtonMail Bridge is essentially a dumbed-down alternative that excludes the need to share public keys, post your PGP fingerprint for verification purposes, or any of the other clunky steps that make PGP mildly annoying.
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But for a movie about what a super dumbed-down world would look like, it's prophetically smart; an overwhelming number of the exaggerations from this film are so jarringly realistic in 2016 that it could be a spot-on satire of our current moment.
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Trying to pack all of that into a 113-minute movie, while also bending to pressure from unhappy religious groups and taking on a PG-13 rating in order to widen its appeal, no doubt dumbed down the 2007 adaptation and softened its sharp edges.
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The real shame of this dumbed-down treatment of manliness by the mainstream is that for this important #MeToo moment to achieve all it must, we need to not just call out the monsters, but also to differentiate the few fiends out there from the gentlemen.
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" Filling in the gaps It is widely reported that Trump generally does not read briefs and that those he does read have generally been "dumbed down, denuded of nuance, and larded with maps and pictures because he can't be bothered to read a lot of words.
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While a dumbed-down facial recognition system could work on the lesser iPhones for fun things like the animated emojis (animojis), Apple is holding back Face ID to drive demand for the iPhone X. Pre-orders start October 27 for the iPhone X, and will begin shipping November 3.
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" Christianity Today wrote that Trump — who has received very strong support from evangelical voters — "has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration" by hiring and firing "a number of people who are now convicted criminals," and by admitting "immoral actions in business and his relationships with women.
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"DJ" is often used derogatorily, with two index fingers doing air-quotes, and, depending on tone, almost interchangeable with "Spotify DJ" or "fake DJ." Because of a saturated market, DJing is dumbed down—everyone is a DJ, so no one is a DJ. This fuckery also unravels differently depending on gender.
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While the NSX has been significantly enhanced for racing performance, the GT3 Evo race cars fielded by Meyer Shank Racing is in some ways a "dumbed-down" version of its street counterpart, without the high-tech hybrid, all-wheel-drive system that contributes to the NSX's status as a supercar.
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But the ScreenPad is "the world's first smart touchpad," in Asus' words, because it can also serve as a multifunctional touch-enabled display, a sort of dumbed-down smartphone that's integrated with your Windows PC. Spanning 5.5 inches with a 1920 x 1080 resolution, the ScreenPad can be turned into your app launcher, calculator, calendar, or numeric keypad.
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Are emojis a necessary evil in a digital world where expressing basic thoughts and feelings with language has apparently become impossibly complicated, or are they the crutches of a dumbed-down Internet culture that's somehow convinced itself that a tiny illustration of a smiling pile of poop is the best possible way to communicate complex emotions?
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With "Star Wars: Episode VIII" on the horizon, Mr. Driver has made peace with the franchise that initially caused him agita, not least for his "very strong opinions about Hollywood movies and how they can be a waste of resources and seem totally gratuitous and dumbed down for an audience and sacrifice story for spectacle," he said.
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I mean, The Washington Post is currently selling an illustrated graphic novel version of the Mueller report based on the deeply held belief that if Trump's Russia and Ukraine exploits could just be dumbed down enough for the poor stupid public then finally everyone would share in the outrage over Ukrainian military aid that pours forth from cable news every day.
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LEVIN: As a Jew, I couldn&apost agree with you more, and it is very troubling to me that we have dumbed down so-called journalism to the level now where concentration camps are thrown out there, where Hitler is thrown out, there the Third Reich is thrown out there because they don&apost like a President or disagree with his policies, it really is beyond the pale.
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J.P. Let me offer you some free advice: reject a universe in which Maroon 5 swaps its usual not-always-unpleasant twee pop-soul for somnolent tropical house; guard your eyes from the group as it feels secure enough to attempt a concept video about … the celebrity grind, I guess; pray that the brainwashing required to convince Kendrick Lamar to contribute a dumbed-down verse still five times too smart for this song is only temporary.
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Even to my relatively untrained eyes, the chips on it are much larger, indicating that they're older and probably much less expensive than what's used in the iPhone X (considering that we could have bought 10 of these for the price of one iPhone X, that makes sense.) "It's clearly a couple generations behind, as well as having a little bit of a dumbed-down front sensor and obviously not the same face-recognition software," O'Camb said.
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