Yet late-night comedy does more than simply induce apathy and dumb down our discourse.
Jay-Z quickly realized that he had to dumb down his music to double his dollars.
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And there's so many people here talking about how they have to dumb down their resumes.
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Because they seem overqualified for the jobs that are there and they're having to dumb down.
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"Laughter on the 23rd Floor" doesn't have much of a plot: NBC wants Max Prince (Philip Nolen) to dumb down his program in order to satisfy the small-town rubes, and he responds by declaring war on the network.
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Just as the right answer to inequitable application of national security-minded export controls is not to dumb down ours to the lowest common denominator applied by others, our approach on capital markets transparency ought to be to bring others' exchanges up to our new, higher standard.
If you want your daughter to be as happy or happier than you have been in marriage, it makes no sense that she should dumb down the colorfulness of her character, the boldness of her spirit and the fire that made her the "first African-American" this or that in order to appease those who are potentially intimidated by her.
"We realize that business education is helpful in preparing a person for a career move, especially for professional athletes, " said Steve Rogers, professor of entrepreneurship at the school, who devised the syllabus, adding that the course does not "dumb anything down" for the sports stars.
Natural selection (not to mention deliberate selection by people) might therefore be expected to dumb domestic animals down.
And it does so in a dumbed-down Esperanto that its audience can't fail to understand -- the universal language of commercial TV sitcoms, with their constrained cultural vocabulary and their subtext of harmlessness: Don't be offended, none of this really means anything, it's just a goof about a lot of dumb stuff going down around us.
Innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly but dumb.
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If the endpoint is dumb, the center has to generate the values (do the work) and send them down the line (potentially clogging the pipes).
This time Master Cherry was struck dumb: his eyes bugged out of his head in fright, his mouth gaped, his tongue dangled down to his chin, like those grotesque faces carved on fountains.
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