A farcical turn of fate means they collectively decide not to go through with it, and form a supportive "gang", whose brush with despair makes them of interest to the facile and exploitative media world.
Childless, unencumbered by any long-term partner, she has crisscrossed the world, churning out facile, clever syndicated copy for her employers, a news service called TravelWrite.
In the 21st century, it is bound to become an important trend for the assembly of novel micro/nano functional materials with long lifespan in the real world by using facile techniques.
As Diderot later pointed out in his Letter on the Blind, for Condillac to rest his case against scepticism about the existence of an external world on such facile grounds was to ignore the powerful reasons for denying the existence of material things that had been articulated by Berkeley.
The kinds of dancing Mr. Martins and Mr. Millepied present are facile, polished and untroubling; the worlds they put onstage are exclusively heterosexual and uniformly polite.
Dealing with the Middle East as it is — rather than indulging in the "Green Zone politics" of imaginary worlds — demands recognition that facile terrorist designations for broad movements like Hezbollah are self-defeating and inadequate.
What's strange today is that City Ballet, though the world's most frequent and facile exponent of his repertory, is no longer the most serious.
Indeed, this atrocious bill has given birth to (no pun intended) a number of facile and unfortunate proclamations about the Muslim world.
Her questioning books express wonder: they are enlightening, in the best sense, passionately contesting our facile, recycled understanding of ourselves and of our world.
"Look at Me" strains under the weight of Egan's multiple ambitions, and her satire of the fashion world and dot-com mania is facile and only sporadically funny.
