Donald (Mr. Hartnett) is facile with numbers but more comfortable with his pet parrots than with other people.
For those who can afford dieting systems with prepared foods, or are facile with calorie-counting apps, those may be better.
He is quick to place certain music off limits, to encourage falsetto -- he is facile with his own -- or singing alto.
And he is facile with the news media; Robert Gibbs, Mr. Obama's press secretary, says Mr. Craig is likely to play "some sort of public role" in the Obama White House, a departure from the Bush White House, where lawyers were kept under wraps.
The reduction is facile, with a similar reduction potential for various acceptor species, but re-oxidation is not possible.
He grieves about all those things on "I'm Bad for You," the rousing and consistently impressive second self-released album by his band, Eric Strickland and the B Sides, which is facile with blues, country, Western swing and more.
Mark Stone, a Beijing correspondent for Britain's Sky News who is facile with new technology, urged his Twitter followers to tune in Friday for a live report from Tiananmen Square.
Monomer diffusion on the terrace is facile, with an activation barrier of 0.20 eV, while dimer and trimer diffusions are restricted due to their high activation barriers of 0.43 and 0.48 eV, respectively.
They simply don't understand Washington politics where being facile with words trumps contradictory data.
"If we are preparing global citizens, we believe that our students must be facile with the Internet," explains J. Michael Adams, president of FDU.
