Sentence examples for never facile from inspiring English sources

It closed a career dominated by a rigorous, never facile, view of humanity.

Titled DoReMi in honour both of its animating musical idea and of the rearranged syllables of its dedicatee, Midori, who was the super-concentrated soloist, the concerto is a playful, never facile but somewhat enigmatic score.

Unlike, for example, my 1980s/1990s generation of vapid style gurus and bubble-headed fashionistas, who were, of course, never remotely facile but always the last word in astutely ironic and self-satirising, and who are now, to a man and a woman, all writing columns for Weekend on Sunday magazine.

Walton was never a facile or quick composer, and in his final decade, he found composition increasingly difficult.

"Let this incident lay to rest forever the facile, never-true-anyway, bullpucky, lazy conflation of Fox News and what the rest of us do for a living," Ms. Maddow said.

Straight answers and facile interpretations have never been his bag.

There never was a life so facile, so passive as the narrator's.

Treating his characters with a facile misanthropy, Schultz never delivers on their comic potential.

He is just so good and so facile that I never even had to think about any limitations.

Ever the exacting history student and never one to read from a facile script, Elizabeth could not offer the unreserved forgiveness that a happy ending required.

Ms. Kimes is a facile writer, so the wheels never become mired.