Sentence examples for bit facile from inspiring English sources
But the comparison is a bit facile.
Other than that, the impulse to summarize the Italian election's outcome as "populist" is a bit facile.
This explanation sounds a bit facile; the same policy was in effect, and drew wide notice, last year as well.
A. In my mind it's a bit facile to say that Walter White is a good man who was left with no other recourse.
Mitchell presents a man identifying as a woman, and it risks seeming a bit facile in its dismissal of trans identities.
But there is also something a bit facile about the plot, which doles out surprises a little too eagerly and addresses some of its sadder implications with a brio that feels glib and insensitive.
That may sound a little facile, a bit like an Academy Award show montage, or some teenagers posting their first YouTube video.
I've never been impressed with the reasoning behind the "ticking time bomb" scenario, a facile little bit of quasi-ethical wonkery that serves the plots of television shows like Alias or 24 far better than it does reality.
Despite its cheeky tone and somewhat facile approach (bits, like a chapter on Roman history entitled "The Gossip Column," seem flippantly sexed up by an anthologist in search of an audience), the book makes you think about our own civilization's peculiarities.
Late last year the mainstream British press hailed Adele as "the new Amy Winehouse," a facile yet complicated bit of praise.
