The story's facile connections between France's sordid politics and its sordid crimes, however, are less convincing than its other, nondramatic documentary elements.
A facile connection is often made between the apocalyptic vision of Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time" and the circumstances of its composition, in a German prisoner-of-war camp in 1941.
But one of the reasons the piece is so important is that it complicates the rather facile connection that's often made between the art of the Light and Space movement and the environmental conditions of its production.
In particular, he upbraided the news media for drawing a facile connection to the conflict with the Palestinians and asked his radio interviewer where reporters got such information.
Facile connection of the honeycomb single units is achieved using a metal interconnect with a gastight conductive paste.
I don't do it to draw a facile link between sufferings, but to insist that we all begin from the same ground: that of being human.
There are no easy answers or facile connections in "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet".
Several lapses — facile connections to Madonna, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, even Judd Apatow — are just mild hazards of criticism as engaged, topical journalism.
"My point is that there is a connection between design and fashion," he said, "just not the facile one that's being presented in most of these lifestyle boutiques".
The connection between Labour and L.S.E.
