Sentence examples for seemed facile from inspiring English sources

The training, though extensive, seemed facile.

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.

Certainly, this valedictory series has seemed facile and plodding at times, though Saturday's finale, a tale about an Italian restaurateur kidnapped and kept in a box, was well sustained.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.