Yet the text is often staggeringly facile.
While the charge that identity politics promotes a victim mentality is often a facile pot-shot, Wendy Brown offers a more sophisticated caution against the dangers of ressentiment (the moralizing revenge of the powerless).
4 Furthermore, the synthesis of an unsymmetrical salt is often more facile than the corresponding symmetrical salt, because salts with one electron-poor and one electron-rich moiety are readily prepared, whereas very electron-rich or electron-poor symmetrical salts are more difficult to obtain.
Business students are often described as being more gregarious and at ease with numbers, law students as more intellectual and facile with words.
Functional predictions are often easier to make and certainly producing the proteins encoded by these genes in fully functional form and hence available for biochemical testing is generally quite facile.
Mr. Bergen also contends that "the growing skepticism about Obama's chances for success in Afghanistan" was "largely based on some deep misreadings of both the country's history and the views of its people, which were often compounded by facile comparisons to the United States' misadventures" in Vietnam and Iraq.
Seldom played in its entirety, today it's often dismissed as too facile and too pretty — too much like a soundtrack, if you will, which is ironic, since that's exactly how it was intended.
Although it's too often facile PR, the corporate social responsibility movement represents the first steps in that direction.
A facile connection is often made between the apocalyptic vision of Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" and the circumstances of its composition, in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1941.
But one of the reasons the piece is so important is that it complicates the rather facile connection that's often made between the art of the Light and Space movement and the environmental conditions of its production.
