Sentence examples for rather facile from inspiring English sources

("Which sounds rather facile," Ferguson himself told Charlie Rose in 2011, "but it's not a bad metaphor").

As with The Sleeping Beauty, Petipa took charge of the synopsis of the ballet and created two rather facile scenarios.

They also fuel the notion – itself rather facile – of an establishment-backed media trying any old trick to halt him in his tracks.

But the apocalyptic setting struck me as rather facile and all-purpose – not so much a case of Apocalypse Now as of ready-made, on-tap Apocalypse Whenever.

While the series demonstrated Clark's erudition, enthusiasm, and talent as a communicator, it was criticized by some art historians for its rather facile treatment of the subject.

I ask whether the process get easier, and my rather facile question is answered with her dazzling smile: "No, You would think after doing this for so many years it would get easier.

Cue decline and death, alas, rather than facile fixes.

The campaigning event, which started in Australia and launched in the UK this week 23-299 March), is an attempt – under the rather smug, facile rubric, "Eat less, care more, feel good" – to get us to reassess our meat consumption, consider industrial farming practices and the impact of such on our health.

It seems, at first, not like the clever self-twitting she clearly intended, but rather a facile confirmation of her haters' conviction: that the middle-aged Madonna does not have a worldview beyond her next Pilates appointment.

At times Jones recalled R&B-soul divas Tina Turner and Gladys Knight, with the latter also referenced with a funked-up reading of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" modeled on Knight's hit version in a nod that felt drawn from a sense of musical sisterhood rather than facile name-checking.

This suggests that most strategies of biological survival and adaptation to various lifestyles may require many simultaneous changes at molecular and cellular levels, rather than facile gain and loss of discrete groups of genes.