Sentence examples for seem facile from inspiring English sources

Roberts's witticisms can sometimes seem facile, as if she were reading from a needlepoint pillow.

Such advice may seem facile, but it runs counter to deeply ingrained assumptions about pop musicians.

There is no point in trying to make Rivette seem facile, ingratiating or easy entertainment.

The tailored trousers It's the season of the trouser, though it might seem facile to point this out.

Hill seemed to have abjured such technique for a while; perhaps it had begun to seem facile or untrustworthy.

Mr. De Luz's technique is always brilliant, but it can seem facile, glib; on Thursday he danced with a more luxurious texture.

The training, though extensive, seemed facile.

"It seems facile, but eventually something serious seems to comes through".

Which seems facile, considering they support the government waging the war in the first place.

But by the end, when the soprano breaks into a cha-cha, the music seems facile and thin.

After the war his fame endured, but his plays seemed facile next to the gritty new realism of John Osborne, or against Samuel Beckett's intellectual depth.