Sentence examples similar to they were facile from inspiring English sources
Just putting on a frown, experiments show, works to reduce overconfidence; it causes us to be more analytical, more vigilant in our thinking; to question stories that we would otherwise unreflectively accept as true because they are facile and coherent.
These indices are potentially of high value because they are facile and inexpensive in comparison with euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp.
"I found some of his points very bracing, but the solutions were facile and often naïve," Mr. Martin said.
They were fast, facile, knowledgeable about current events, business, the arts, and were pretty good with their fists if they had to be.
The idea that the world's importers would suddenly buy neglected British goods and services because they saw London on television must be facile.
The kinds of dancing Mr. Martins and Mr. Millepied present are facile, polished and untroubling; the worlds they put onstage are exclusively heterosexual and uniformly polite.
These comparisons, like the judge's characterization of Im Tirtzu, are facile — and potentially harmful in the way they can diminish the real horrors of Nazism and fascism.
It would be facile to dismiss these as cases of people getting what they deserved.
Of course generalizations are facile.
