What made the difference, apart from the fact that I was no longer a facile collegiate ironist, was the experience of hearing the music live, with Kurt Munkacsi's sound design adding heft and definition to every gesture.
As one teacher remarks about a troubled student, "There is no facile solution".
In his books, there is no facile comparison between past and present, but a profound understanding of our common tragedies, of their constancy, fluidity and pathos.
You cannot hear this song without wondering whether the reason he has been working the middle ground is because he is no facile songwriter.
Based on the 1992 movie by Andrew Bergman, who also wrote the salty book for this show, and featuring a revelation of a score by Jason Robert Brown, "Honeymoon in Vegas" is no facile satire.
As in the Oscar winning As Good as It Gets, Nicholson gives a bravura, if sometimes showy, performance as a morally repugnant man - though here there is no facile improvement in his character by the end of the picture.
There are no facile cures for their deep, festering wounds.
There is no facile synthesis of the events that transpired at the Wamego missile silo between October 1 and November 4, 2000.
However, there is still no facile way to microfabricate hierarchical MCPs and there are few examples of such MCPs with catalytic properties.
There is no tidy and facile answer.
