Word: simpler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Arnold were less ambitious for the Republican presidential nomination (28th Amendment, here we come!), he would also violate the right-wing shibboleth against ever seeking more revenue and fight for a fairer, simpler, and less capital-gains-dependent California tax code. And he would cash in October’s Ohio campaign trip and demand that President Bush return some of the $60 billion a year in federal taxes that California fails to get back in federal spending...
...attention lately, there is no consensus on how seriously to take it. Some scientists are confident that there is a law that dictates the values of those key cosmic numbers, and when we find it, the anthropic problem will go away. Others think the answer is even simpler: if the numbers were any different than they are, we wouldn't be around to argue about them--case closed. "The anthropic principle," complains Fermilab astrophysicist Rocky Kolb, "is the duct tape of cosmology. It's not beautiful or elegant, and it sure as hell is not going to be permanent...
Maybe it's the moment when the speeding train screeches to a stop about an inch and a half from your nose. Or possibly it's a much simpler effect--a snowfall that seems to be drifting down on you right there in the theater. Anyway, at some point very early in the 3-D IMAX version of The Polar Express, technology trumps banality and you helplessly surrender to the shock and awe of this big, often thunderous movie. And to a certain pity for the great mass of people obliged to conduct their children to the thousands of theaters...
...dark, unabashedly earnest and hopeful experience. With the delicate voice of a young man who’s just losing his world-weary reticence, Sufjan (pronounced SOOF-yan), whether in conversation or in song, perpetually sounds as if he’s making his transcendent re-entrance to a simpler place with a sweet, happy calmness...
...such a complex breakdown of the Crimson might be a bit superfluous. For this Harvard team, it’s not about point guard play or frontcourt dominance or any such nuanced analysis. The goal this year is much simpler than any of that...