Sentence examples for rather than facile from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Rather than offering facile answers such as "just let markets work" or "just get governance right", it rightly emphasizes that each country must devise its own mix of remedies.

CO stripping voltammograms and CV curves suggest that the improved electrocatalytic properties of the PtmAu/RGO catalysts are especially attributed to the decreased CO formation rather than the facile removal of CO on the surface of Pt.

And this setting, rather than being the facile hell imagined in movies like "American Beauty," is shown as a genuine expression of the American utopian ideal, a pastoral city on a hill where everyone is comfortable and everyone's the same.

He works in a shorthand that can sometimes feel facile rather than profound.

Daniel Ulbricht has so many gifts that are right for Puck — speed, elevation, timing, merriness — that it's irritating to find he turns cuteness into cliché and allows his dances to look facile rather than magical.

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

Grubman also boxed as a youngster, but it was his facile brain rather than his fists that distinguished him.

Facile self-consciousness rather than heartfelt sensitivity won the day: Quentin Tarantino took over the shop, rather than Campion.