It's impossible to use a facile word like "closure" at this point.
Business students are often described as being more gregarious and at ease with numbers, law students as more intellectual and facile with words.
They simply don't understand Washington politics where being facile with words trumps contradictory data.
It was media gotcha, but it worked because the idea of Ford's physical clumsiness expressed a larger truth, that he was not facile with words.
One criticism is that although the verbal modality may be ideally suited to study anxiety [25], [58], anxious individuals may be more facile with threat words than non-anxious individuals, yielding a potential confound in using these words to study group differences for threat vigilance [71].
In other words, a facile and distorted memory is almost a greater insult than simply forgetting.
In occasional speeches and frequent e-mails to the staff, he was facile, fond of obscure words and alliteration.
This is why she is able to say: "An injunction to remember can become an injunction not to think, not to grapple with the past: such an injunction seems to me to verge on bad faith". In other words, a facile and distorted memory is almost a greater insult than simply forgetting.
The result: a 115,000-word book too facile for the audience most likely to engage with it but which will leave the casual listener, curiosity piqued by bleeding chunks of Bach, Beethoven and Bartok on Classic FM, floundering like a Grade I student asked to sight-read a piano concerto.
Words like shallow, facile, glib and slick are not insults to a journalist.
