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  • But we're also too complex to be forced into too-easy categories.

    The Spice Must Flow darkerblogistan 2009

  • Dan's questions expose a few of the deficits in the good professor's methods -- namely, the manner in which his claims sometimes rest on poorly evidenced conjecture about author's intentions and too-easy generalizations about arguably hastily grouped-together authors 'work.

    Premises 2010

  • One is glad of such outbursts, rare and for the most part mild as they are, for if the book has a fault, it lies in a certain blandness in the narrative voice, a perhaps too-easy acceptance of the world and its oddities and annoyances – at times in these pages one longs for a touch of the occasional curmudgeonliness of Paul Theroux, say, or the beady-eyed reprehensions of Theroux's erstwhile friend VS Naipaul.

    Nocturne: A Journey in Search of Moonlight by James Attlee – review 2011

  • The film has been criticized for redacting pranks on LaToya in light of Michael's death, which is lame, and also for poking fun at too-easy targets.

    The Virtues of Patience darkerblogistan 2009

  • We choose to take none of these too-easy metaphorical paths, however.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011

  • The "too-easy" mom who thinks it's always a good time for some hugs, or the taskmaster who wants her child to look at me when speaking?

    Joanne Bamberger: Why I'll Never Be A Tiger Mother Joanne Bamberger 2011

  • He used his advantage to produce a definitive (if marred by a too-easy Freudianism) five-volume biography of James (1953-72)—which brought him a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Henry James Professorship at New York University—and to edit a four-volume edition of James's letters.

    The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012

  • When a student did try to solve the problem with a slogan-sized, too-easy answer, it would be the facilitator's job to say, "But what if?"

    Eric Maisel, Ph.D.: Do Schools Allow Thinking? Ph.D. Eric Maisel 2010

  • The "too-easy" mom who thinks it's always a good time for some hugs, or the taskmaster who wants her child to look at me when speaking?

    Joanne Bamberger: Why I'll Never Be A Tiger Mother Joanne Bamberger 2011

  • We choose to take none of these too-easy metaphorical paths, however.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [150] -- A Fortean Week Chris Weigant 2011

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