A lesson learned from Root Capital is that the all-too facile and often preachy rhetoric about free markets and globalization overlooks the thorny, on-the-ground work that is needed to actually make markets work.
A flashback to an episode of childhood sexual molestation provides a too facile, too perfunctory explanation.
I intuited this at eleven, spent the eighties learning how composers like Bernstein did it, and the nineties coming to terms with something (learned) in me that felt that it was all somehow too facile in its execution.
But the lessons from all this were too pat, too facile.
"It's too facile to say that all the great producers are gone," said John Breglio, a leading theatrical lawyer with dozens of clients on and off Broadway.
This is probably, in a way, too facile, but all of his plays expressly foreground the idea of change — "Caroline, or Change" does it in its title.
But blaming all of us may be too facile.
That is often thought to be true of the Holocaust, an event all too frequently co-opted for a ready-made, facile emotional ride.
Extinction seems too facile an explanation to account for fact that all complex life on Earth shares a common ancestor that only arose once.
That would be too facile.
