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Related ideas, such as “everything is pretty” or “everything is nice,” suggest a simple-mindedness that is trivial.

From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 2021

Leave aside the alluring simple-mindedness of the waste/fraud/abuse solution.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2015

Here, the nostalgia seemed directed toward the 1970s, a time of material complexity and simple-mindedness.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2012

The ghastliness of this damp and squishy comedy is the byproduct of a confused and earnest sentimentality, a willful devotion to wide-eyed wonder that confuses simplicity with simple-mindedness.

From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2012

There was a simple-mindedness in her which touched Philip.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)