Sentence examples for facile but from inspiring English sources

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It sounds facile, but it's what gets you through".

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

Such advice may seem facile, but it runs counter to deeply ingrained assumptions about pop musicians.

"It seems facile, but eventually something serious seems to comes through".

As a painter, Sturtevant was facile but not up to persuasive forgery, had that been her goal.

As a dramatist Kotzebue was prolific (he wrote more than 200 plays) and facile, but dramatically adroit.

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That might sound a facile point, but only because aircraft are so familiar and were, until recently, so unthreatening.

I won't regurgitate my full response here (it was probably facile anyway), but the answer is this: it's the people, and it's the politics.

Most people think that it is a facile body, but I think talent really has more to do with 10 character traits.

If Diabelli's theme is trivial, it's trivial not in a slick and facile way but in an awkward way.

In short, Gould reveals himself to be a facile explicator but by no means the deep or interesting thinker that he evidently aspired to be, as his frequent analogies to the field of classical music embarrassingly illustrate.

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