Sentence examples for not facile enough from inspiring English sources

Bush, though he has a better command of detail than Reagan, is not facile enough to play that game, and when he does let himself get pinned down on the details, he exposes the fact that on taxes or guns or abortion he is more conservative than most voters.

"I just wasn't facile enough," he said.

Dwellers in the kingdom will need to face adversity for how else can we know that the purity is genuine and not facile, and that what appears authentic has roots deep enough to withstand strong winds and tidal floods?

Intelligent people saying things that were not facile.

We get answers – but not to everything, and the ones we do get are not facile.

I'm also not facile with language, and I don't have much irony.

But it is time for straightforward rather than smooth, and forthright not facile.

Pinpointing the causes of increased vision loss in children and youth is not facile.

But if I sense the connection right off the bat, I usually don't end up writing the story, because the relationships among the ideas are too intellectual, too facile, or don't have enough emotional complexity to hold my interest.

But here again, I think it would be facile to say that the imbalance is a result of men sucking – or, as it were, men not sucking enough – because the female orgasm is a relatively complicated achievement.

"Not enough, not soon enough," it said.