Sentence examples for he was facile from inspiring English sources

In occasional speeches and frequent e-mails to the staff, he was facile, fond of obscure words and alliteration.

And he is facile with the news media; Robert Gibbs, Mr. Obama's press secretary, says Mr. Craig is likely to play "some sort of public role" in the Obama White House, a departure from the Bush White House, where lawyers were kept under wraps.

If you thought that was facile, try this: sometimes really large audiences are great.

Boris Johnson's comparison of the EU with the Third Reich was facile.

This was facile on behalf of the press, and readers deserve better.

As a painter, Sturtevant was facile but not up to persuasive forgery, had that been her goal.

He said: "It is facile and assumes a kind of superiority that we decide who is Welsh and who is not Welsh".

According to them: Sargent was superficial; he was too facile; his are not real paintings; virtuosos have no soul, etc.

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.

"A lot of people on both sides of the debate are facile, but he thought about their arguments seriously.

In the book, Ms. Lipstadt wrote that Mr. Irving, now 62, was "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial" and said that "he is at his most facile at taking accurate information and shaping it to conform to his conclusions".