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Here he is displaying all these qualities in a concentrated burst of glib, cocksure simplemindedness during a July 19, 2022, appearance on C-SPAN:

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023

That movie sanctifies ignorance, whereas Heller’s, equally gentle, explores not simplemindedness so much as simplicity, a rarer gift.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2019

The tributes pouring over Summitt this week from those of us in sports media would make believe she became immune to such simplemindedness.

From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2016

Simplicity is not the same as simplemindedness and can aspire to the sublime.

From Slate • May 28, 2012

For a company that prides itself on extreme frugality and makes a virtue of simplemindedness, Isozaki's building is happily improbable.

From Time Magazine Archive