Sentence examples for facile entertainment from inspiring English sources

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Slick, facile entertainment is the name of the game here, as it is in all Mr. Singer's films, including "Apt Pupil" (about a Nazi war criminal and the American boy next door who outs him) and "The Usual Suspects," an intricately plotted story with men and guns, secrets and shadows that Mr. McQuarrie wrote.

His urban odyssey made a virtue of racial and sexual diversity and collapsed the 19th Century distinctions between edifying art and facile entertainment, constantly probing the boundaries of what was considered good and bad taste".

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But the dances themselves look like facile, shallow entertainments.

They are carefully considered, deeply serious documents about people and their troubles in an age when we seem to value facile and impermanent entertainment first.

There is no point in trying to make Rivette seem facile, ingratiating or easy entertainment.

Indeed, if it were not the case that the only thing worse than a pundit who draws on facile parallels with popular entertainment is the one who says that you can find it all in the work of Alexis de Tocqueville, the right thing to say here would be that you can find this all in Tocqueville.

The resulting entertainment is just a little facile at times but the five interconnecting love stories, ending with a wedding amid the monsoon, are encompassed with considerable skill.

Nonetheless, at Red River's core is a better-than-average FPS, albeit one offering potty-mouthed entertainment amid a dubious and somewhat facile storyline.

Too facile.

That is facile.

Its lyrics are facile.

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