Sentence examples for facile writer from inspiring English sources

Watkins is an extremely facile writer.

"There's always that fear of writing too much if you're a reasonably facile writer, and I'm a reasonably facile writer".

Martha Southgate is a more serious, less facile writer than Mr. Lasser.

Ms. Kimes is a facile writer, so the wheels never become mired.

"My father had previously been the most brilliant, facile writer at The New Yorker.

"From what I gather, she's a very facile writer," Friedman added.

One rare and reckless time, speaking to me in low and confidential tones, he mentioned "facile writers" (not, of course, by name) and the price that facile writers pay for their facility, and the suspicions that accrue to their velvet prose, and so on until I found myself hoping that he thought my own work was as rough as a shingle beach.

Ms. Holmes is not an especially facile or lyrical writer, but she does have a keen eye for the character-revealing detail -- her mother's removing her wedding ring, for example, before driving Minnie home into the poor, black section of town.

Mr. McInerney was a callow, facile and extremely entertaining writer from the very first.

He resists making facile comparisons to other writers or other times (the parallels with Calvino and Proust are mine), anchoring us firmly in a 17th-century landscape and mindscape.

I've had a wonderful career, getting all the major gongs, yet as late as 2008 it was still possible for that small self-doubting voice in my head to whisper that being a facile modeler and a pretty good writer might not mean that I really knew how the world works.