Sentence examples for facile talk from inspiring English sources

The inclination to avert such an outcome with facile talk about the U.S. federal government turning to "socialism" may be an enticing rhetorical device, but it is not a constructive way to deal with the underlying challenge, which is both human — and very real.

Although it is right to protest, against facile talk of the harsh imperialism of Cleon, that imperialism is never soft, an important but sometimes overlooked chapter of Thucydides is nonetheless explicit that Athens suffered a loss of goodwill through its excessive rigour.

Parliament has been reduced to a facile talking-shop.

Facile Brexiter talk of a more buccaneering Britain – presumably a country fit for Sir Philip Green or Fred Goodwin to capture other galleons – offers precisely nothing to assuage the fears of elderly voters who simply want nothing more to change.

He said: "We have got to get away from this facile view that talking tough solves this problem.

Those who oppose a preemptive military strike against Iran suspect that all this talk might become facile justification for an attack.

It would be far too facile to blame the failure of the Copenhagen talks or American carbon-capping legislation on these revelations, given how the unraveling of the economy and other issues were dominating debate over climate.

In places where young people are getting out – as Bugg did – and the remaining population is old or sick or stuck in some rut, talk of Britain's recovery may sound facile.

In my Forum, class members engaged in even more mother-talk when Roger introduced a beguiling if facile concept called "strong suits".

"Some of – almost all – of the observations from certain aspects of the press have been so nonsensical and so facile and fictitious … All the people they were talking about in lots of the stories know the truth".

He told The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4: "This is the facile tractic the europhiles always use and then they start talking about three million jobs as though the sky is going to fall in of we ask for powers back".