Sentence examples for his facile from inspiring English sources

These enabled firm identification and confirmation of his facile style.

Older residents are shocked by his facile characterisation of the place and the people.

A painting such as Himself (1913) reveals his facile brushwork, lively palette, and ability to catch fleeting gestures and expressions.

Grubman also boxed as a youngster, but it was his facile brain rather than his fists that distinguished him.

His facile portraits reflect the courtly and elegant manner that came to be preferred in Dutch painting from that time.

He behaves as he always has done, sharing his facile thoughts without considering their effect on those around him.

'Rave culture,' I wrote, 'is facile, empty of soul and humanity and based on a phony, chemically-induced concept of togetherness and spirituality.' A few hours earlier the photographer Jason Manning had disappeared to one of the dance floors built beneath the sand.

Mr. Eaton, one could say, doesn't like his stories or his music facile.

To excuse his own facile execution of his characters, Fogelman puts a line into Linda's mouth at a lunch with Abby and Will, expressing her satisfaction that Will has married a woman whose parents are dead so that she won't have to share the grandchildren with another set of grandparents.

Evelyn Waugh did indeed write outrageously about his offspring — facile fabrications meant to shock his friends and burnish his reputation for eccentricity.

At the same time he was sending sober accounts of parliamentary business to the burghers of Hull, who repaid him with a stipend and barrels of ale.But the main point of Marvell today for most readers will be his words, his simple arresting imagery, often taken from nature, and his almost facile rhymes, which shape complex allusory themes.