Sentence examples for to make facile from inspiring English sources

Yet it's precisely because "The Plot Against America" wasn't written to make facile analogies between then and now that the light it casts on this present American moment seems so illuminating.

Bellori himself may have reported that fellow artists were "infatuated" with Caravaggio's manner but that was because, he said, "without study or effort it enabled them to make facile copies after nature and to imitate forms, which were vulgar and lacking in beauty".

Parties need to look beyond making facile financial offers during this coming election.

Requested over and again to write films and plays about the National Health Service, I always refused because I was reluctant to make too facile a comparison.

There are such entrenched ethnic and sectarian tensions in each individual region in Iraq as to make such facile pigeonholing a fool's game.

Dr. Doddington hopes that whatever comes, future vendors of voice authentication systems will be wary of making facile comparisons to fingerprints, less they offer false assurances.

He resists making facile comparisons to other writers or other times (the parallels with Calvino and Proust are mine), anchoring us firmly in a 17th-century landscape and mindscape.

Advocates of the war, especially those allied with the administration, kept relatively quiet, or attempted to belittle what had gone on, or made facile arguments that such things always occur in wartime.

He is the son of panel shows replete with squawking comedians making facile jokes about how awful the government is.

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

But however easy the links are to make, many are also facile.