Why do leeches fail to regenerate, while their close relatives, the earthworms, are so facile at replacing lost parts?
Unusually, the consultants who are so facile at putting themselves ahead of the game are struggling to catch up.
I was very lucky that the two guys in this show are so facile".
His work was so facile that it sometimes seemed easy; people might have snarled condescendingly, along the way, at the blockbuster success of this one-time television writer.
The finale in which we supposedly reach the solution to this deeply uninteresting aesthetic crisis is so phoney, so facile and so cortex-clobberingly stupid that it will inspire audiences everywhere to reach into the screen, pull the plug on sensitive Zac's speakers and pour his Pellegrino over his head.
These days, when there is so much facile painting around, it is useful to be reminded that there are still veterans like her, steeped in the medium, its difficulties and pleasures, who work so hard and make such beautiful art.
I doubt Morris and Booker are trying too hard; I just know that youth culture is so intrinsically facile that it is virtually (unsati risible on telly (apart from gadget mania which is, admittedly, a little bit funny), even by Chris Morris.
* "STONES IN HIS POCKETS" This two-handed comedy by a Belfast playwright, Marie Jones, has been a crowd-pleasing hit in London, largely because the unheralded actors -- Conleth Hill and Sean Campion -- are so marvelously facile in portraying more than a dozen characters: the Irish extras hired for a Hollywood movie, and the presumptuous Americans who invade their home turf.
"Page's interest in occult ritual is so serious and longstanding it would be facile to suggest anything as feeble-minded as a pact with the Devil".
Perhaps it's because the line between facile photographic cleverness and significant insight is so delicate and unpredictable.
