Is it facile, dangerous even, for foreign journalists to raise this problem of historical memory and immature democracy?
When he complained to Rebecca West that she had reviewed one of his books with "virulent abuse" she wrote back dismissing his complaint but admitting "It's certainly true that I don't like your work; I think it facile and without artistic impulse".
In this communication, we show that oxidative addition of C F and C O bonds to Al(i) is facile (Fig. 2).
I discovered that I was facile with small mathematical models, with a knack for finding simplifying assumptions that made them tractable.
Of the six of us, four wanted to learn more French for touring the country, one needed French for a doctoral program, and I was curious to see whether I was facile enough to move beyond irrelevant textbook phrases about le cahier, le stylo and mon oncle.
Whether or not I go to hell for this deed is yet to be determined, but when I hear arch, facile condemnations tossed off about events like this I get mad.
I'm not a very self-reflective person, I don't tend to write about myself... Maybe I'm an empty, facile person, but I tend to be more interested in what's going on around me than what's going on inside me".
Is it too facile to say it started with goose pimples and ended in goose steps?
'Rave culture,' I wrote, 'is facile, empty of soul and humanity and based on a phony, chemically-induced concept of togetherness and spirituality.' A few hours earlier the photographer Jason Manning had disappeared to one of the dance floors built beneath the sand.
I notice how facile the actors are at mimicking grief, how worn and listless their faces look.
