Sentence examples for facile books from inspiring English sources

The pleasing, slightly facile books come out almost every year, as tidy and punctual as postage stamps, and the applauding reviewers line up like eager stamp collectors to get the latest issue.

This entertaining but facile book suggests that Mr. Russo is himself contemplating those same questions.

It dismisses as "facile" the book's background material on seculariation and religious schisms.

The result: a 115,000-word book too facile for the audience most likely to engage with it but which will leave the casual listener, curiosity piqued by bleeding chunks of Bach, Beethoven and Bartok on Classic FM, floundering like a Grade I student asked to sight-read a piano concerto.

She is happy to compound her book's facile inversions by calling her method, at one point, "as much pedagogical as heuristic (and as much heuristic as pedagogical)." Why, then, should readers follow Ms. Garber's frequently glib trail through Shakespeare's body of work?

Senior Adam Goldstein — who has already written two books — is a facile communicator and a star of MIT's Debate Team.

In his books, there is no facile comparison between past and present, but a profound understanding of our common tragedies, of their constancy, fluidity and pathos.

The book takes on the facile predictions -- especially the strain of prophesy he calls "endism".

In fact the book owed more to the facile theories of globalisation in vogue at the time.

Because of her willingness to introduce readers to over a century of Islamic theology and politics, a book that might have been a facile juxtaposition of two very different individuals is actually much more than the sum of its parts.

Comics scholar Roger Sabin found the book unconvincing, "a well-meaning but facile piece of agit-prop".