Sentence examples for more than facile from inspiring English sources

But it is precisely critical voices such as his that must be encouraged if freedom of expression is to mean more than facile sloganeering.

Socio-economic issues are inextricably intertwined and more complex than facile pronouncements and twenty-second sound bites would have the public believe.

But what makes "The Barbarian Invasions" much more than a facile exercise in generational conflict is that Denys Arcand, who wrote and directed it, has a sense of history that is as acute as it is playful.

By turning a blind eye to state-sponsored violence, they do not address how the list is nothing more than a facile response to the man with the small bomb.

What makes this more than a facile study in generational conflict is Mr. Arcand's acute sense of history: he has made the cultural contradictions of global capitalism into the material of a heartfelt domestic drama that is also a broad, accessible and devilishly funny sex farce (A. O. Scott).

The challenge is to develop from this less than startling fact anything more than a facile appearance of paradox.

But it fails to do so, being no more than the fruit of facile precepts.

As a dramatist Kotzebue was prolific (he wrote more than 200 plays) and facile, but dramatically adroit.

Less flatteringly, "Below the Line" addresses the issue of poverty with a blithe emulation of Paul Simon's "Graceland," which is facile on more than one level.

But while her forays into politics and Western media manipulation of Muslim extremism can seem facile, she more than compensates with beautiful passages on Islam's essential purity and poetry.

So why does the overall impression of this program feel more facile than the sum of its parts?