Sentence examples for entirely facile from inspiring English sources

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His answer was elaborate and not entirely facile.

The analogy between creative writing and fertility is not entirely facile: The story of I.V.F. is essentially a female story, and it requires women writers to tell it.

To take the lollipop stick example, an exercise in which all present must be accountable for their contribution, does it not encourage students to placate teachers with an entirely facile utterance?

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These are generally not at all facile.

There's a slightly facile, but not entirely misplaced sense that English football does it better.

But that does not mean they should be entirely excused: there is something slightly facile and obvious about Avatar, even at its most transcendent moments.

A facile debate about social mobility focuses almost entirely on how to get a few talented poor people to be upwardly mobile (something that would only concentrate disadvantage), but questions about the characteristics of a just society or the fierce resistance of the privileged to downward mobility are avoided.

But blaming all of us may be too facile.

Moreover, your suggestion that the dispute stemmed entirely from the union's desire for control over new jobs is facile, since both sides agree that the core issue is speed.

Sex and poetry are linked in this film as if by a high-tension, high-voltage wire, and while the connection may seem facile, it is also, with respect to these writers and their milieu, entirely plausible.

His Administration is not responsible for black unemployment being double white unemployment, but it's entirely insufficient for him to so simply make mention of that fact en route to a facile point about the work that's still left to be done.

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