Sentence examples for it seems facile from inspiring English sources

"It seems facile, but eventually something serious seems to comes through".

It seems facile, the idea that better schools have a positive impact on economically vulnerable children, a simple equation whereby quality in equals quality out.

It also seems facile to turn the final scene, in which Lulu is reduced to selling her flesh on the streets of London, into a contemporary vision of urban blight.

There has already been so much hockey (forty-seven playoff games in total in round one, plus two yesterday) that for those who have been paying anything more than glancing attention to it all, any particular grievance or "narrative" seems facile.

First performed by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1908, this somewhat sentimental dramatic parable was highly regarded for a time, but its charm has evaporated, and the optimism of the play now seems facile.

The tailored trousers It's the season of the trouser, though it might seem facile to point this out.

Which seems facile, considering they support the government waging the war in the first place.

But by the end, when the soprano breaks into a cha-cha, the music seems facile and thin.

Charge transfer to oxidized DDB seems facile at all potentials above 0.2 V in both LiPF6 and LiBOB electrolytes.

Mr. De Luz's technique is always brilliant, but it can seem facile, glib; on Thursday he danced with a more luxurious texture.

And it seems yawningly facile to say that when he was confronted by Zimmerman, a man in the dark with a gun, "he could have walked away".