But this simplistic account of that crucial phase of evolution has not stood the test of modern investigation.

Yet the practising Christian remains as ignorant as his predecessors of centuries ago; and he subscribes essentially to the same simplistic accounts he heard when he himself was a child.

Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult, however; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works.

Guido Grandi (1671-1742) reportedly provided a simplistic account of the series in 1703.

There are no simplistic accounts of rituals and hardly any lyricism.

It was particularly critical of newspaper owners for offering an overly simplistic account of events rather than trying to educate their readers.

Motivations for Belief he rejects simplistic accounts of science, commending instead the approach of Michael Polanyi.

The Scottish playwright David Greig's simplistic account of this enormously complex situation does a disservice to both sides (1:30).

He emerges, in that context, as a man of motives and actions more complex than McCall's simplistic although basically accurate account.

Thus, a simple linear record of his life and rule is impossible and cannot be pinned down as a simplistic historical account.