Sentence examples for facile person from inspiring English sources
I'm not a very self-reflective person, I don't tend to write about myself... Maybe I'm an empty, facile person, but I tend to be more interested in what's going on around me than what's going on inside me".
The juxtaposition of virginal sheets and barbaric stone may sound facile, but in person the psychological temperature of the space is transformed.
The term inferiority complex has lost much of its significance through imprecise popular misuse for example, as an inappropriately facile explanation of any show of ambition by a person of less-than-average height.
"She would be the first person to be horrified by what she considered facile sentimentality, but I have to say that Marina combined excellence and suppleness of language with passionate commitment to social justice and the investigation of humanity, and therefore had enormous potential as a writer," Ms. Margolin said.
Be that as it may, today, a more facile definition might state a partisan as someone who is "a fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea".
While it is tempting to use the metaphor of the 'bar' as a way of asking whether a person is 'good enough' to merit promoting (or if a manuscript is 'good enough' to merit publishing), this facile comparison hides many essential differences between deciding who wins the gold medal in the Olympic pole vault competition and what is important when judging excellence in science.
Both are dangerously facile.
