1.   At this point, someone searching for a simple definition of pragmatics is likely to be exhausted.

2.   A. First, a simple definition of a black hole, thanks to Roger Brissenden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

3.   A. Flood stage and crest have fairly simple definitions.

4.   By the deceptively simple definition of some of its practitioners, modern cosmology is the search for three numbers.

5.   In its most simple definition, journalism is relating information to people.

6.   It defies a simple definition.

7.   Nonetheless, McCaskill said adding a simple definition to Missouri law would stop police from handing off cash to federal agents whom they had called.

8.   Some were unexpected, belying even here the notion that the distant violence of the Balkans could fit into the simple definition of an ethnic conflict.

9.   That moment, that simple definition, Adria said, was transcendent.

10.   That was wrong, he said, and he proceeded to offer a simple definition.