The answer can be oversimplified, and an oversimplification is false and misleading. From Wordnik.com. [What Has Happened to The American Dream?] Reference
A gross oversimplification is to consider the Web as the train and the Internet the railway system. From Wordnik.com. [Hear no evil, see no evil, talking bollocks] Reference
"This oversimplification is inaccurate by half, and its frequent repetition does a great disservice to the city.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
This kind of oversimplification is at the heart of AGW. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #16 « Climate Audit] Reference
Here's a gross oversimplification of how it works. From Wordnik.com. [The Matrix Makers] Reference
You say that can be kind of an oversimplification. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2008] Reference
"Gratitude would be a misleading oversimplification.". From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
"That is an oversimplification," said Rutilius Rufus. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
FABIANI: I think that's an oversimplification this year. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Presidential Race to Be Decided by Florida Results; GOP Retains Control of House; Control of Senate Remains in Doubt - November 7, 2000] Reference
I have always thought that this is an oversimplification. From Wordnik.com. [Digging Your Own Tunnel] Reference
CLARKE: That is a gross oversimplification and exaggeration. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2005] Reference
That – oversimplification that it may be – is beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [meggie816 Diary Entry] Reference
Terry, is there a certain oversimplification that takes place?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2009] Reference
CHAPPUIS: I think that's a little bit of an oversimplification. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2002] Reference
ROBBINS: I think it's a dangerous oversimplification of college. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2006] Reference
Now perhaps that's an oversimplification, but I don't think much. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2002] Reference
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: No, that's an oversimplification. From Wordnik.com. [Background Briefing On European Trip] Reference
KURTZ: Sounds like you're saying some oversimplification going on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 29, 2004] Reference
Which is either an oversimplification at best or flat wrong at worst. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2002] Reference
McCain's remark was an oversimplification of a five-minute conversation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2008] Reference
To call Zenobia a swamp world is, of course, a gross oversimplification. From Wordnik.com. [Phule me twice]
And that is an oversimplification, I think, and a generalization of the problem. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2001] Reference
There was -- I think it was an oversimplification of how he would think about it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2006] Reference
It's a bit of an oversimplification but those are the general camps that they're in. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2007] Reference
I think it's a little bit of an oversimplification to talk about pro-business judges. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2005] Reference
It says, McCain's remark was an oversimplification of a five-minute long conversation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2008] Reference
If I have a computer, suddenly I'm a journalist or is that much an oversimplification. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2005] Reference
Quant people may protest this gross oversimplification, but they would miss the larger point. From Wordnik.com. [Do Business Schools See Why CDOs Are Compared to "Springtime for Hitler"?] Reference
Although some of the criticism is justified, it represents an oversimplification of the issues. From Wordnik.com. [Npr Accompanying Report On The Department Of Agriculture] Reference
Their control may well be more powerful than any erudite oversimplification or its presentation. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
"The Wire" presents these complex processes without sacrificing nuance or resorting to oversimplification. From Wordnik.com. [Why we're teaching 'The Wire' at Harvard] Reference
It is an oversimplification at best to suggest, as many do, that Republicans are pro-trade and Democrats are not. From Wordnik.com. [Eric Farnsworth: Five Weeks, Three Ballots, and Destiny] Reference
A president who leads his country into war has a special responsibility to forgo oversimplification and partisan politics. From Wordnik.com. [The War as Wedge Issue] Reference
It's an object lesson of how viewing the world as "good guys vs. bad guys" can lead to a vast oversimplification of a messy story. From Wordnik.com. [Greenhouse Simplicities] Reference
An oversimplification, for sure: I'm obviously not proposing moral equivalence between a mob boss and the estimable real estate developer. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Why the Race is Looking so Good for Bush] Reference
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