This is the dumbing down of diplomacy, the dumbing down of foreign policy.
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Hosts explain the news simply, but without dumbing it down.
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Relax the sometimes stilted, lofty voice without dumbing it down.
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"We cannot have this perpetual dumbing down," he told me.
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I think that "dumbing down" flavors at restaurants is bullshit too.
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They feel like a dumbing down of Apple's power user operating system.
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Because the folks in these communities have noticed this dumbing down, too.
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I think that the dumbing-down of America has truly become complete.
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I love that H&R Block simplifies the process without dumbing it down.
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Dumbing down the culture doesn't serve democracy well; it only coarsens it further.
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"We're not dumbing down that music," Mr. Evan said of his classical selections.
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Biden said Trump is "dumbing down the presidency" and coddling up to dictators.
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" "Chris kept telling me, 'I'm not dumbing this down just because you've never tapped.
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And have we finally reached the pinnacle of the dumbing down of the conversation?
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It is disrespectful and dumbing down to tell athletes to shut up and play.
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I don't think that dumbing it down is necessarily how I would look at it.
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Bill Maher thinks Stan Lee is partly to blame for the dumbing down of America.
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Getting rid of these, as Left-Hand Path does, isn't necessarily dumbing down the game.
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Ellevest speaks to women in terms they can relate to without "dumbing it down," Krawcheck says.
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" Adds Jackson, "Kevin never insulted the audience and never insulted [the actors] by dumbing us down.
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"He's dumbing it down for people who don't want the numbers and statistics," she said approvingly.
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The dumbing-down of American life, as traced by McLuhan and his descendants, suggests the latter.
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This is actually dumbing down the entire country and our ability to compete on the international stage.
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Would it mean that Apple is "dumbing down" the Mac to make it more like the iPad?
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Many feel that the once-prestigious Oscars are dumbing down to the level of the MTV Awards.
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The thing is, research tells us diversity makes groups smarter, so why are we dumbing panels down?
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But he lamented that like all developments in shifting, it is another step in dumbing down the process.
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Of course, it is hard to resist the notion that Netflix's decision represents some kind of dumbing down.
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A combination of dumbing down, as you said earlier, and stirring people's emotions in a very unhealthy way.
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Silicon Valley giants spent much of 2018 being accused of inflaming, radicalizing, dumbing down and squeezing the masses.
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In its latest ad, CNN is dumbing things down for President Trump and his supporters obsessed with fake news.
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In the same vein, mathematics faculties at both high schools and colleges dismiss numeracy as dumbing down or demeaning.
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The use of spaces is just indicative of the dumbing down of programming; tabs will make America great again.
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This is bigger than the individual candidates, bigger than a broken system, bigger than the dumbing down of America.
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Bedell says he's learned to "refrain from dumbing down his language online because "people are hungry for this rigorous information.
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You saw that the guys were having trouble adjusting to that game, sort of dumbing themselves down in a way.
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The University of Minnesota business professor believes technology is fostering a golden age of pop culture, not dumbing it down.
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A trend of vegan and plant-based diets could be "dumbing down" future generations, according to a prominent UK nutritionist.
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Lawmakers are taking a look at legislation to improve cybersecurity in critical infrastructure by dumbing down the nation's smart grid.
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"Wishbone" earned praise for not censoring or dumbing down the material it adapted, and earned a Peabody and multiple Emmys.
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He was dismayed that conglomerates were acquiring publishing houses and resented what he called the dumbing down of international culture.
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"This is not about dumbing things down," Manzari observes, noting that as devices become more professional, they often become more intimidating.
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Bhad Bhabie: Yeah, I had Instagram and Snapchat as a kid and I used to post the dumbing most irrelevant posts.
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Here's Dr. Oz dumbing down Rob Gronkowski's season-ending back injury, 'cause we know all that medical talk can be confusing sometimes.
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Rich with multileveled allusions, the raps confront gentrification, nativism, the dumbing-down of hip-hop and the rise of Donald J. Trump.
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If this meanspirited dumbing-down succeeds, ostensibly to help America be great again, it will be a triumph of technique over purpose.
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But far from dumbing Monster Hunter down for a mainstream global audience, Capcom has shown remarkable confidence and self-awareness in designing World.
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So much of politics and advertising consists of dumbing down the message, playing on fear of the right and anger of the left.
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Palin, in turn, Feehery argues, "was the real start of the dumbing down of the G.O.P.," a cascading process that led to Trump.
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Things that never happened before now happen with such regularity that the numbing and the dumbing down can make a rational human inert.
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For all the alleged dumbing down, the people who ran and won in 2010 and 2012 were pretty impressive, a lot of them.
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Tabaimo is not interested in dumbing down her references to Japanese culture, or in turning her art into entertainment for a Western audience.
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It's easy to see machine learning as a creativity-killing, bubble-inducing agent invading our Facebook News Feeds and dumbing-down our Netflix habits.
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And now, the creator of the roll synonymous with dumbing down Japanese cuisine for North American palates is being honoured by the Japanese government.
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With thousands of reputable news sites available to choose from, it's simply lazy to say "all of the media" is dumbing down the debate.
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"This is all in the category of dumbing down the criteria for drug approval," said Dr. Jerry Avorn, a professor of medicine at Harvard.
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As Brian Strutton of BALPA, their union, puts it, they are frustrated with the "dumbing down" of BA's service after years of cost-cutting.
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"Quite honestly, I think you are watering down and dumbing down when you bestow it on someone like Donald Trump," he said via satellite.
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Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second ranking Democrat in the chamber, accused the committee of "dumbing down" the judiciary and pressed on Menashi's background.
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The museum inaugurated the opening with several exhibitions, each curated with children in mind, but by no means pandering or dumbing down the artistic mission.
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It's not just a restaurant, it's about how I can push Filipino food forward so there's no sense of euphemisms, there's no dumbing things down.
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"I got into it with one of my colleagues a little bit, who was like, 'I feel like that's dumbing down things,'" Ms. Goerke recalled.
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Both are fascinating, breaking the history, historical interpretations, and debates around our presidents and the country's most important document into digestible bits without dumbing anything down.
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And it does so without dumbing anything down, or worse glorifying the excesses of the super-rich by offering "anti-heroes" for us to root for.
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In my 2013 book, Dumbing Down the Courts, I find that the length of Supreme Court confirmation hearings has grown with the expansion of judicial power.
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"Quite honestly, I think you are watering down and dumbing down your problem solver label when you bestow it on someone like Donald Trump," he said.
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Early on, Fidel warned against dumbing down artistic expression for the masses and urged raising people's intellectual level so they could appreciate the best in the arts.
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"I just knew that I was wasting my time and dumbing myself down to be in the company of dumb people because I was lonely," she said.
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In the scientific community, the idea of unintelligent parents having more kids and dumbing-down the population is known as the dysgenic fertility theory, according to Ritchie.
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This does not mean dumbing down your work or trafficking in clichés — quite the opposite — and besides, Saul has too much respect for the viewer for that.
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Once seen as a force for making our lives better and our brains smarter, tech is now accused of inflaming, radicalizing, dumbing down and squeezing the masses.
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The British Museum issued an apology after an #AskACurator tweet by Jane Portal, a curator in the museum's department of Asia, was accused of racism and dumbing down.
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But dumbing down race to "noise" squanders a pivotal opportunity to say there's a lot more to race, especially in terms of Owens's impact at the Berlin Olympics.
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"We're not dumbing down the dishes or the spice levels," said Chat, adding that they are grinding their spice mixtures: 55 Bond Street (Bowery), 212-677-2223, fishcheeksnyc.com.
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Thiel and his buddy David Sacks argued that colleges were bowing to political correctness, dumbing down their admissions policies and silencing intellectual dissent in the "name of diversity."
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Often, when a entertainment property reaches that kind of mainstream success, particularly with a streamlined take like Pokémon Go, fans worry about the dumbing down of their beloved games.
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There are ways of dumbing your smartphone down, or turning the bright colors off, or just buying a simple text-and-calls £10 [$13] brick and using that instead.
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Q. You are skeptical of the way people protest through social media, of so-called "armchair activism," and say that the internet is dumbing us down with cheap entertainment.
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This generation of progressives, to achieve lasting success, must accept that simplicity and popularity are not a dumbing-down of policy, but rather the unavoidable requirement for its success.
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Duchamp wanted "to put art back in the service of the mind," but Vautier moves to surpass mindful art with life by dumbing art down to habitual, unmindful, banal events.
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It's not hard to believe: With their tangled rhymes, innate musicality, and constant wisecracking, the Spillage Village guys are proof that you can make fun music without dumbing anything down.
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"By dumbing down news, converting 'debates' into circuses, and using loaded hashtags, the media has allowed the social contract guaranteeing its freedoms to fray," Gupta wrote in an opinion piece.
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There were no flying cars and domed cities, as promised in Popular Science; rather, there was a dumbing down of the population engineered by right-wing politicians, televangelists, and Madison Avenue.
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Basically the idea was to tell the revolution as a story, because it was an extraordinary one, without blurring the politics, or pretending the politics aren't there, or dumbing them down.
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When National Geographic started publishing photographs in the early 1900s, two of the National Geographic Society's board members resigned in disgust, saying the magazine was dumbing itself down by becoming more visual.
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In every respectable institution in America, merit, hard work, and effectiveness lead to advancement, but in Congress, dumbing down our leaders to "dial for dollars" during the work day leads to advancement.
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"She said she thought "dumbing [her]self down" would get her views, and she didn't realize that more people would watch "if I was just real and true to who I was.
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" Assessment culture is dumbing down universities, he said: "One of the horrible things is that many universities think that giving access to nontraditional students means turning a university into a high school.
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In some ways it's related to the dumbing down of so much of life: an instant pudding interior so you don't have to think about what you want or define your personality.
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"So often I felt like I was giving up a part of myself in order to play this ingénue — either dumbing myself down, or making myself more frightened or scared," she said.
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Their origins are in an aesthetic and culture that is very different from ours, and Tabaimo is not interested in dumbing it down or turning it into entertainment for a Western audience.
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Use our heads and turn off all of the screaming on TV. It really seems to be just de-sensitizing us all, putting us into separate corners, and dumbing us the hell down.
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Inside the List PHYSICS FOR POETS Brian Greene is to science as Michael Lewis is to the financial world: He distills mountains of complicated information to a manageable size without dumbing it down.
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But for all the war on facts and dumbing down of debate we see in the West right now, we should recognize that our concerns are almost quaint compared with much of the world.
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But A Star Is Born has something more substantial to say about what it means to be a star, beyond the dumbing down of lyrics that earns Ally a spot on Saturday Night Live.
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No, this is more a question of whether Garoppolo's presence—and the potential for dumbing down the offense sans Brady—will limit the effectiveness of Edelman, Rob Gronkowski, Dion Lewis, Martellus Bennett, et al.
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I think the political situation and the media played a massive part of dumbing down the people and totally disenfranchising them from politics, and making people not wanting to be involved or being aware.
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Her "plans," if they are looked at outside the prism of the European socialist movement, should be seen as a recipe for dumbing down our entrepreneurial culture and radically reducing our standard of living.
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The tension goes both ways: hardcore fans are anxious that Let's Go represents a dumbing down of the franchise, while Go players are nervous about how Game Freak will add complexity back into the mix.
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Dumbing it down to a tidy narrative where it's approachable without watching All-22 footage is what casual fans have to do when they don't have enough time to study the game like it's their job.
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Twitter could work harder to fight hate speech, but that wouldn't solve other difficult problems like ideological echo chambers and a general dumbing down of the national conversation, because those are also happening in real life.
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To help speed the release of information, American analysts are being encouraged to "write to release" — mostly meaning stripping information of sources and methods to ensure broader and faster distribution to partners without dumbing down the content.
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Bien sûr, this is all intended as riotous summer fun (though the best fun is in mocking it), but there is some icky dumbing down of art here based in carefree privileged action that we need to unpack.
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After examining the rendering of "Bouquet of Tulips," it is apparent to me that this is a shiny red herring used to justify the dumbing-down of art, bending art toward the low hanging fruit of reductive simplification.
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Sure, it would be easy to accuse the publisher of dumbing down high school textbooks, but if describing rockets as the "US Space Team's Uper Goer Five" is what it takes to get kids into STEM, it's probably worth it.
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Mike Judge's bleak 236 satire takes a pair of ordinary people from the present (Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph) 19783 years into the future, where they learn that natural selection has resulted in an epic-level dumbing down of America.
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Look, it's awesome to see fans and critics alike yell like hell to the heavens about Japandroids making drinking sound like a higher calling, dumbing out in a CAPS LOCK/all-emojis-and-exclamation-points manner usually reserved for Migos songs.
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Moreover, it was thought that people with lower scores would have more kids than people with high IQ scores, which would contribute to a decline in IQ scores over time and a "dumbing down" of the general population, according to Rogeberg.
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Yet The Swerve doesn't promote the humanities to a broader public so much as it deviously precipitates the decline of the humanities, by dumbing down the complexities of history and religion in a way that sets a deeply unfortunate precedent.
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" He told the BBC that British Airways has "lost the trust and confidence of pilots because of cost-cutting and the dumbing down of the brand" and criticized management for seeking to "squeeze every last penny out of customers and staff.
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Some doubtless will frown and curl the lip, accusing the Swedish Academy of deserting its high standards, dumbing down, succumbing to populism or making a bid to escape the charge of being elitist -- even though by any measure every prize is unavoidably.
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While it's true that the sorts of designers that formed the audience Bdeir imagined weren't likely to be electrical engineers or professional programmers, the core product wouldn't be subject to any of the dumbing down we often associate with mainstream children's products.
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That doesn't mean you're dumbing it down; it means you're explaining it so that everyone, the really smart people — because you've got incredibly smart people like John Podesta on your email list — and the people who aren't heavy in politics can understand it.
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Pop anthropologists have long done this before him, with music, with fashion, with sports, with sex — but Bourdain was the first to break out of the niche subject he inhabited professionally, because he did it plainly and without pomp, without ever dumbing things down or dramatizing differences.
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In essence, the concept of the "Gorilla Channel" is one of those quintessentially meta-memes tied to current discourse around politics and reality creation, one that playfully calls out uneasy aspects of society — in this case, the relationship between the president, reality TV, and the dumbing down of American culture.
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In a blog post from earlier this year, Andrew Lekashman, a cofounder of the keyboard enthusiast community Input Club, put mainstream technology's dumbing-down of the keyboard into stark terms: Input Club, founded by a group of fans of input devices, was built around the general idea of introducing new thinking to the keyboard space.
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"The corporation has come under fire for further 'dumbing down' the annual festival by booking a string of pop acts in a bid to attract younger audiences," wrote the Daily Mail in 2014, when the Pet Shop Boys and the "Match of the Day" TV show theme were announced as being on the concert menu.
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Ms Rabl-Stadler believes that they can, and that it doesn't require a "dumbing down" of the material: as long as people have decided they're going to spend a week at a far-away festival, she says, they're also more willing to try out new musical fare than at home, where they'd rather spend their evening at the opera listening to Verdi than a newly-commissioned opus.
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One could argue that there's a discussion to be had about Hill's comments, one that goes beyond just what was said but also addresses race, politics, and the way Trump has stoked those fires since he announced his candidacy with comments about Mexico sending "rapists" to the U.S. But this is 22017 so it's all devolved into a chaotic echo chamber of name-calling and the further dumbing down of discourse.
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Vice President Biden on Monday blasted Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE for "dumbing down" the election as he took aim at the media for opting to cover the GOP presidential nominee's comments and rhetoric over the candidate's policy proposals.
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