Sentence examples for facile arguments from inspiring English sources

But the part about Mr. Bush's being weaker depends, beyond the numbers, on some pretty facile arguments.

Advocates of the war, especially those allied with the administration, kept relatively quiet, or attempted to belittle what had gone on, or made facile arguments that such things always occur in wartime.

Romney shifted to explaining why he would repeal Obama's law, and the Bain consultant seemed to be replaced by a Tea Party activist: the presentation lost its logical rigor, as Romney resorted to platitudes and anti-government outrage, and to facile arguments about federalism.

"We still have huge amount being spent on sniffer dogs, facile arguments being made against drug testing at music festivals so that people can actually know what it is they're taking, and there is a huge dissonance between the rhetoric from experts and truly trying to implement evidence-based policy," Caldicott said.

A series of generally facile arguments are given for the existence of God and his attributes.

Those endorsements, and the undeniable, measurable benefits of the program to all of its participants, make the facile arguments against joining the Fair Food Program put forward by companies like Publix, Ahold, and Wendy's ring all the more hollow.

It's a facile argument to say that they're all "corporate stooges" who hate art.

It is much easier, apparently, to impress Republican voters with the facile argument that President Obama has failed.

In art, there is a perpetual, facile argument between ancients and moderns, conservatives and champions of the new.

It was a facile argument - brilliance is brilliance no matter how routine - but Nibali nonetheless answered it, first with a series of punchy attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday and then with a sensational win on Thursday's time trial.

I think atheists are getting a lot of mileage out of a facile argument.