Sentence examples for of the facile from inspiring English sources

It was also resoundingly impressive as a demolition of the facile contention that women are the weaker sex.

But one reason I wrote this story was that I wanted to refute some of the facile assumptions about Thomas' intellect.

That being said, I must register my agreement with his equation of the facile neo-Romanticism that began to dominate establishment musical institutions about two decades ago, and the Reaganite supply-side ideology that arose concurrently.

The lyrical warmth of the result held an immediate appeal while maintaining an essential ambiguity that avoided any suggestion of the facile, demonstrating Langer's ability to connect spontaneously without sacrificing subtlety.

But it has none of the facile emotional posturing that appeals to the kind of institutional adman's taste, the bratty cynicism and quick-fix sensationalism that pervades the Saatchi collection.

I don't imagine that even David Cameron, Zen master of the facile soundbite, would have felt quite so tempted to comment on something less easy to compartmentalise, as the prime minister did on the clip of the Chelsea supporters, describing it as "very, very serious".

Therefore, the exploitation of a new way for the facile preparation of NiO-ZnO heterojunctions is still highly desired.

Rather, it transforms downward, to the facile cliches of "how strange these Americans be".

* "ALIAS" An action series with a crackerjack pilot that lives up to the facile nickname of "La Femme Felicity".

In fact the book owed more to the facile theories of globalisation in vogue at the time.

27, 28 The chemical design of tilmanocept permits the facile attachment of additional imaging reporters, such as fluorescent dyes.