Sentence examples for the facile idea from inspiring English sources

(What about a retired Supreme Court Justice, like John Paul Stevens or Sandra Day O'Connor?) The Clapper story isn't just about credibility; it's also about the facile idea that Snowden could have accomplished as much or more if he had just politely mentioned all this to one of his bosses or to a friendly person in Congress.

Self-help has its uses, however: it neatly undoes the facile ideas of left (we are powerless victims) and right (we have total agency in our lives) alike, and it provides the calming reassurance that others out there are as messed up as you are.

But the play presents a very facile idea of how an artist's life is transmuted into art.

The campaign has little organization, nor is there any one discernible message or facile idea to which voters might attach themselves, like Herman Cain's "9-9-9" tax plan.

Overall, this oriented approach provides a new and facile idea to fabricate core-shell or hollow-out structure as high-performance electrode for supercapacitors.

It seems facile, the idea that better schools have a positive impact on economically vulnerable children, a simple equation whereby quality in equals quality out.

All too aware of the pitfalls of sketch comedy, the quartet avoid the puerile and the facile to come up with some genuinely innovative ideas which have included a much-watched internet hit "Facebook in Reality".

The facile "just get married" bromide comes too readily to mind as a solution.

His dexterity with tension and humor borders on the facile.

"But the 1974 production removed the facile reformation of Brick.

Sky (despite the facile linkage) isn't Fox News.