Sentence examples for facile playing from inspiring English sources

Consequently, music in the Romantic period responded with modulation to remote keys and incorporation of greater dynamic contrast, changes that ultimately demanded an increased instrumental range and a more facile playing technique.

The chemistry shows and so does Hart's smooth, facile playing that seems to eschew flash for taste and sensitivity.

The loss of this concern in the facile plays of the 19th century and beyond resulted in the reduction of tragic mystery to confused sentimentalism.

It was a lazy, facile play on America's Next Top Model and American Idol, filmed on the cheap with a catwalk that would have appalled the contestants of Little Miss Backwater 1975.

This week ministers were deploying to attack Muslim leaders, including their own parliamentary colleagues, as "facile" and "playing into the hands of extremists".

Bush, though he has a better command of detail than Reagan, is not facile enough to play that game, and when he does let himself get pinned down on the details, he exposes the fact that on taxes or guns or abortion he is more conservative than most voters.

These aren't psychically and physically light facile consumer internet plays like Zip2 or Paypal (which he also founded) but massively complex, industrial, hard asset based industries that have a societal impact.

However, it is well known that in diatoms where similar amorphous hybrid bioinorganic structures are produced, cationic polypeptides play a major role by way of providing a facile template as well as playing the biocatalyst role for silicic acid hydrolysis [10] [12].

Playing up this contrast between almost facile melody and forceful, stifled statement in the first movement gave the work a new dramatic line and made it the highlight of a strong concert.

The rediscoveries in the insightfully curated series "Woman with a Movie Camera: Female Film Directors Before 1950," playing at Anthology Film Archives Sept. 15-28, are a welcome corrective to facile assumptions about the role of women directors in the early days of cinema.

Bernstein's skill at playing such games raises the suspicion that he was merely a facile trickster.