Sentence examples for but rather a facile from inspiring English sources

It seems, at first, not like the clever self-twitting she clearly intended, but rather a facile confirmation of her haters' conviction: that the middle-aged Madonna does not have a worldview beyond her next Pilates appointment.

Nell finds his view to be a relief personally, but intellectually a facile and unendearing failure of imagination.

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 want the glamour but this is a facile wish and ultimately pointless.

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.

But "Mockingbird" begins on a facile, slightly desperate note.

But this analogy is a facile one, and may well yield disappointment in the months and years to come.

The aimless show doesn't build or flow but trickles out in a facile and wearying jokiness.

But it is rather a touchy subject.

But theirs is rather a token victory.

Sargent's copy of Velázquez's portrait of a model posing as Aesop displays a facile but terrific mimicry of the master's way with a brush.