This is not a facile question.
Some people see a weekly cycle in politics, driven by the remorseless polling, endlessly analysed in the press and on television with facile answers to the facile question, "Who won the week?".
I ask whether the process get easier, and my rather facile question is answered with her dazzling smile: "No, You would think after doing this for so many years it would get easier.
This is not a facile question, aside from the obvious public interest (when was the last time you saw a report on a new dinosaur that didn't suggest how long it was, if only in terms of double decker buses?).
Indeed, for the computer scientist John Seely Brown, machines that are facile at answering questions only serve to obscure what remains fundamentally human.
The board revised the exam to eliminate more facile multiple-choice questions and permitted students to use calculators, although it stopped short of requiring essays, as some had recommended.
But they have to stop subjecting Democrats to these loaded, facile and irrelevant questions.
I encourage emerging scholars to be nimble and curious, to explore multidisciplinary and mixed-method collaborations, and to resist facile, deficit-based assumptions, questions, and approaches in the study of inequality.
I'm in Argentina at the moment and here the question seems facile.
