He was a fringe player in the Roman dolce vita scene, but in Un uomo facile (An Easy Man, 1959), he was back in the ring with a popular Roman macho star of the moment, Maurizio Arena, who stole the limelight.
By turning a blind eye to state-sponsored violence, they do not address how the list is nothing more than a facile response to the man with the small bomb.
But when Donoghue reaches for a Great Theme, she chokes: the facile notion that "everyone -- man, woman or child -- prostituted themselves one way or another" seems like a halfhearted stab at highfalutin social commentary.
Photographs also illustrate books: Breton's 1928 classic "Nadja" and Paul Éluard's 1935 book "Facile," where the images are Man Ray's.
The assertion that "we will not lose our nerve" comes across as facile and fatuous from a man who assiduously dodged combat in Vietnam.
Calling the man, Jeremy B. Jones, a "facile liar" and a "monster who would kill without remorse," the authorities released the names of three men and nine women they say Mr. Jones, above, has admitted killing.
That's the thing: it's very easy to use these words about this man, and very facile, because we live in a time where it's sound-byte time.
One of the many facile comparisons in the piece.
Democrats consider themselves the "party of the common man," but this routine and facile assumption ignores the "anti-bailout" anger in play today -- where Democrats are seen as helping out Wall Street and largely ignoring Main Street.
A. In my mind it's a bit facile to say that Walter White is a good man who was left with no other recourse.
