"I have this simple-minded way of thinking you tend to do better if you measure performance," Mr. Willes said in an interview Friday.

As a consequence, she added "if you come into the room and turn a patient on his side and he dies, then, in our simple-minded way, we relate that to causing the death."

That was the simple-minded way to use QMAPS, now in version 2.1.

You can imagine a simple-minded way which says, okay, let's assume that the branch that we encounter, if we've ever encountered it before, is going to do the same thing.

And in your arrogant, simple-minded way, you thought somehow to find out and then escape, probably destroying me in the process.

"So I started in a simple-minded way," Dr. Greenberg said.

Stern, in his simple-minded way, thought little of this.

In their own simple-minded way, the war wounded had been thinking that what had happened to them was a dirty rotten kind of deprivement; now here were all these fanatical kids fighting for a place in line so they could acquire the same damage voluntarily.

It had been known since the 1950s (Borel, Harish-Chandra) that a certain simple-minded way of constructing subgroups of semisimple Lie groups produces examples of lattices, called arithmetic lattices.

I happen to know that you are helping them in your own simple-minded way, and I couldn't let you fall into the clutches of the Evil Empire.