Sentence examples for facile assumption from inspiring English sources

The facile assumption is that, like Wile E Coyote, Atlético always lose, no matter what.

I would question the facile assumption that Hamilton was the original Republican (or original Democrat, for that matter).

China's 30 years of growth disprove the facile assumption that as the country prospered, it would necessarily democratize.

The facile assumption that we can literally "feel others' pain" can be dangerous to our sense of who we are — and, more alarmingly, who the others are, too.

"This facile assumption that more antitrust means greater equality and wealth is just way overbroad," wrote Daniel Crane, an expert on antitrust law at the University of Michigan.

The facile assumption that restricting consulting revenues will enhance auditor independence must confront two problems: First, existing rules in the U.S. and Europe already place substantial restrictions on the provision of consulting services to audit clients.

Among the many facile assumptions encouraged by these imperial apologists is that those who criticise colonialism are absolving tyrants and bigots in Asia and Africa from responsibility for their crimes.

But one reason I wrote this story was that I wanted to refute some of the facile assumptions about Thomas' intellect.

The rediscoveries in the insightfully curated series "Woman with a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950," playing at Anthology Film Archives Sept. 15-28, are a welcome corrective to facile assumptions about the role of women directors in the early days of cinema.

Okay, so the talking animals may be over the top; but for all its eccentric drollery, Martha Grimes's new Richard Jury mystery, THE BLACK CAT (Viking, $25.95), is a shrewd whodunit that plays on the facile assumptions we make about people based on their outward appearance.

Typically, you'll hear this word deployed whenever a political figure's actions demand that some pundit answer a variation on the old hoary question, "But how did it play in Peoria?" Of course, most of the people who rise to answer this inquiry couldn't possibly know, so they string together a set of facile assumptions and guess-timations and pawn it off as the truth.