Sentence examples for sounds facile from inspiring English sources

It sounds facile, but it's what gets you through".

The clip is deployed with predictable clumsiness, a hamfisted stab at political comment which sounds facile and pointless.

Of course, it was never that simple years later and in a new context, the juxtaposition of war and baseball sounds facile and tone-deaf.

It sounds facile, and it is a little bit, but for the layperson it's probably nice to have it all concisely explained ("oh, this is why I can't retire until I'm 85").

That may sound facile and a little sappy, but Nussbaum is quite serious.

This makes watercolour sound facile whereas in fact it is versatile.

The juxtaposition of virginal sheets and barbaric stone may sound facile, but in person the psychological temperature of the space is transformed.

In places where young people are getting out – as Bugg did – and the remaining population is old or sick or stuck in some rut, talk of Britain's recovery may sound facile.

It might sound facile to ask what technology "wants", but Mr Kelly, who was founding editor of Wired magazine, makes a case for the desire of the "technium", as he dubs the ecosystem of technologies, to grow in complexity and colonise new areas, just like life itself.

That may sound facile, but the fact is I've been doing television almost exclusively for ten years -- really excellent television for the most part, but big feature films and television are very different beasts, and I missed the experience of being on a big movie.

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