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  • Moreover, you simple-mindedly define “the rich” as the only ones who contribute.

    Wonk Room » More Than 99% Of The Kyl-Lincoln $250 Billion Estate Tax Giveaway Goes To Wealthy Families 2009

  • But who could hate even the simple-mindedly violent people of Sill?

    Enjoyment 2010

  • Ours is not to question, or to reason why; ours is to simple-mindedly claim to be "conservative" as were told we are by those who claim to be "conservative" and with whose underlying hatefulness we identify.

    Poll Data: GOP Fast Becoming Rump Party 2009

  • I've tried very hard to convince a number of the more enlightened Democrats who serve on the Senate education panel to introduce amendments that will drastically reduce our government's reliance upon standardized exams in judgment of a child, school, or teacher, and attribute greater weight to factors that are not so simple-mindedly reducible to numbers.

    Jonathan Kozol: Why I am Fasting: An Explanation to My Friends 2008

  • For example, British economist John Maynard Keynes was until very recently scorned by the right wing; his brand of economics was called "liberal" and he was simplistically, perhaps, simple-mindedly, associated with Marx.

    The GOP Will Have to Steal the Next Election Because They Cannot Win it 2008

  • The isolated quotation strips out the implied emphasis on “appear to”, leaving exactly what a simple-mindedly pious audience — in Kansas, for instance — wants to hear.

    Richard Dawkins: God's Gift to Kansas 2008

  • They are almost exactly the same people: idealists, people who simple-mindedly long for goodness, justice, and sanity; the difference is one of style. ...

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • They are almost exactly the same people: idealists, people who simple-mindedly long for goodness, justice, and sanity; the difference is one of style. ...

    No Comfort Here 2007

  • You might recognize a familiar narrative design — rise and fall, loss and survival — but all the different actors and stories might seem an arbitrary and simple-mindedly literal way to make Shakespeare's point that in his life a man plays many parts.

    The Roles They Are A-Changin’ 2007

  • I had once thought, rather simple-mindedly, that Wodehouse's downplaying of Wilde might have to do with a revulsion from homosexuality.

    The Honorable Schoolboy 2004

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