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In other talks and essays, he laid out some ideas about what made an unsuccessful novel, citing problems like too neat a frame, sentimentality, and facile lessons and solutions.
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Palestinian officials call the story of the Altalena a facile history lesson.
Iraq and Afghanistan have provided powerful lessons in the cost of facile planning (or none), the ease of going in, the agony of getting out, and the limits of Western firepower.
It is facile to criticise Africa for not learning the lessons of history.
But the lessons from all this were too pat, too facile.
A lesson learned from Root Capital is that the all-too facile and often preachy rhetoric about free markets and globalization overlooks the thorny, on-the-ground work that is needed to actually make markets work.
Too facile.
That is facile.
This is a little facile.
Both are dangerously facile.
It is facile.
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