Sentence examples for a rather facile from inspiring English sources

That's a rather facile thing to say, of course, but it is true that a lot of their attacks have ultimately broken down with a forward - typically Giovani Dos Santos - shooting selfishly when a team-mate might have been better positioned.

There are multiple ways of measuring the surface energy of a substance; a rather facile way is to measure the values of the contact angle that the substrate makes with certain solvents, and then by utilizing Young's equation (Equation 2), the surface energy would be determined.

They also fuel the notion – itself rather facile – of an establishment-backed media trying any old trick to halt him in his tracks.

As part of his rather facile construction of Mormonism as a "cult" (a silly and mostly semantically null word the journalist has borrowed from Evangelical extremists), Sweeney emphasized certain rather striking oaths of secrecy that were once elements of Mormon temple worship.

The fact that he interviewed two Tunisian students with affiliations to the Muslim Brotherhood while they watched a bawdy Italian television game show is rather facile evidence that religious fundamentalists can be open minded.

But the apocalyptic setting struck me as rather facile and all-purpose – not so much a case of Apocalypse Now as of ready-made, on-tap Apocalypse Whenever.

In commenting on the Bale spoof, Ben Child of The Guardian wrote: "Personally, I tend to find Family Guy a bit hit and miss, but the US comedy's rather facile flashback formula does at least make it easy to chuck in the topical references".

While the series demonstrated Clark's erudition, enthusiasm, and talent as a communicator, it was criticized by some art historians for its rather facile treatment of the subject.

("Which sounds rather facile," Ferguson himself told Charlie Rose in 2011, "but it's not a bad metaphor").

As with The Sleeping Beauty, Petipa took charge of the synopsis of the ballet and created two rather facile scenarios.

Under the direction of Giovanna Sardelli, Mr. Turner's rather facile performance does not help matters, underscoring the character's buffoonishness in the early going so effectively that the late-coming revelation of a veiled sensitivity does not ring particularly true.