Sentence examples for would be facile from inspiring English sources

It would be facile to restrict myself to 20l, I decide.

It would be facile to claim that all aspects of foreign policy are ethically straightforward.

It would be facile to say that this is the territory of Kafka because this is not fiction.

But it would be facile to suggest that Mr. Clayton is essentially of his time and that Mr. Diehl resides in another.

At this point, though, it would be facile to make any assumptions about what she or anyone else has been spared.

It would be facile to say that the Administration had simply written off the Times — Rove's level of passion demonstrates that.

NA The direness of the situation in Syria is such that it would probably be facile to wax lyrical about the healing power of sport just now but, however you want to put it in context, the national team's performance in these qualifiers has been something to behold.

That would be too facile.

An old-fashioned Marxist might imagine that the broken windows and burning houses expressed a raging political reaction to government spending cuts — but this time that explanation would be too facile.

It would be a facile conflation to suggest that his murderousness was derived from his loneliness, any more than to say that his case proves the inefficacy of community gardening as a salve for friendlessness.

It would be too facile to say that everything Austin did in later life was aimed at impressing his mother; yet she was his constant childhood companion (the father having been relegated to solitary medical study), and she certainly encouraged all his early attempts at showmanship.