Sentences with phrase «but facile»

You and your fellow libertarians spout what you think are unassailable truths, when they are nothing but facile catch phrases, that can be used to justify just about anything.

The undertones in his work are anything but facile.

But facile comparisons aside, the prime minister is damning himself with his own words here.

Not exact matches

It is the discipline of a church willing to be somewhat tentative in its hope, to see faith as a now - but - not - yet sort of thing, the discipline of keeping close to those whose sad lives challenge our facile assertions of deliverance.

But for this Christianity in the world itself, the decisive task of the Church is definitely not a facile preparation of concrete patterns for such a Christian life, of such a kind that it would only be necessary to copy them obediently, conscientiously and comfortably for one to be ipso facto a good Christian.

But those who worked so hard to make it a priority are justifiably worried that this great achievement could be undermined by the foreign policy establishment's habits of facile expediency.

The word Messiah, which means literally «anointed one,» points strictly, of course, to an individual; but in the psychology of Israel with its facile and often unconscious transitions from individual to corporate personality, we are hardly wrong in allowing a broader definition to the term Messianism, in which emphasis is placed upon the redemptive function of the human entity, whether group or individual.

It was a facile political trope but one that did in fact....

In her 1992 book The God of Thinness, Mary Louise Bringle similarly denounced the Christian diet industry for «feeding off the facile conflation of fat and sin (and forgetting that the traditional teachings of the church condemn consumptive behaviors but say nothing about cosmetic matters of body shape and size).»

Such joy is not facile or simpleminded, but rather a recognition and celebration of created life:

No facile resolutions of this dilemma are offered the hearer (reader) of the sermon, but the hearer is invited to go on struggling with the problem under the grace of God.

But they denied this facile interpretation.

Anyone with a whiff of concentration could charge you with inconsistency, but hey ho, since we're dealing in facile accusations and ONLY facile accusation I suppose it's ok huh?

Neo-orthodoxy, rejecting what it considered the facile optimism of 19th century liberalism, accepted the finds of modern science, but drew a distinction between the realms appropriate for scientific and theological study.

But Rabbit's restoration is neither facile nor final.

«Superficial,» «facile,» «trendy» «poetic» help but do not go far enough.

The graceful and loving presence of Christ may well be active within the kinds of events just reported, but both faith in Christ and appreciation of the abundant fertility of Eros resist the facile equation of specific parish events with the activity of Christ.

But if they are healthy persons, over a period of time they will begin to look critically at what they formerly granted facile acceptance.

Arsenal found themselves 2 - 0 down after just 15 minutes in Bulgaria and were reeling from the shock, but by half time we were back at 2 - 2 thanks to a facile goal from Granit Xhaka and a trademark header from Olivier Giroud.

But assessing one club's business against another's by comparing the price tags is at best tricky, and at worst entirely facile.

1 in 2 is ok, but its not like it was years ago.footballs more attacking these days, we need a striker who can do better than that like Aguero or Costa.You say that many elite european teams have sucess without a prolific striker, but you failed to name them.lol.There are exceptions but on the whole most of the top teams have a WC striker a go to man from Barca (european champiions) to real madrid to PSG and even Bayern Munich all have WC centre forwrards up front.To try an argue otherwise is facile

I know it's facile to point at the very obvious change and cite that as a cause for concern, but I do think he's trying to find his way in the immediate events following the Bones separation.

Farage's performance and dramatic style of delivery may have entertained the masses, but this should not lead us to the facile conclusion that Farage has won the intellectual or political debate over Britain in Europe.

The point may be facile, but it was noted by all the journalists peering down from the press gallery.

But her comparison with the notorious anti-communist witch - hunt by US senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s was branded as «facile» by Labour backbencher Stephen Pound, who said MPs had only themselves to blame for their current difficulties.

It is no mystery that older men find younger women attractive, but this alone is just a facile and dismissive way to entirely account for the phenomenon of older men younger women relationships.

The will - they - or - won't - they structure is a bit facile, but Last Night is on to something fascinating.

There's real heart to be found in the story but it comes along with borderline saccharine sentimentality, a too facile ending, and clean outcomes that aren't earned.

Hemsworth is likable with a facile but puzzling Scottish brogue (I'm guessing it's Scottish — there's no reason I could discern for any accent whatsoever).

The movie flirts with some facile ideas about the value of life, but at the end, we're left feeling drained and wondering if the sound and fury signified anything at all.

It's a hazardous business, drawing facile parallels between actor and character, and yet Olivier Assayas's film all but stipulates that viewers do.

The mild jabs thrown at a facile self - help book called 7 Billion People and You are too soft to leave a mark — but then, maybe self - help isn't the right target for this film.

It's as though Olen and Harkins have overdeveloped their tone - y humor muscles, and now, even when they don't mean to, they can't help but flex some facile irony.

The usual critical suspects have already taken the movie as further evidence of the Coens «oft - alleged misanthropy, but this is a facile, if not entirely backward, reading.

Jordan recalls some of Washington's facile manner, but he acts with a depth of social significance Washington lacks; part of it coming from a generational advantage.

But as a symptom of that facile societal desire for superficial uplifts and comforting negative stereotypes, the smoothness of the coating for this bitter pill deserves some measure of profound distaste.

But with Schwartzmans politically loaded job (he protests suburban sprawl) and Wahlbergs anti-petroleum stance, things devolve into an «issues» shouting match with the «Average Americans» content with facile short - term thinking and denial of long - term consequences and reliance on blind faith.

This framing device may seem facile at first, but it provides «Nymphomaniac: Volume I» with both perspective and a hugely enjoyable streak of absurd humor.

Facile, but good in a pinch; apply it to Todd Haynes's fascinating I'm Not There and suddenly there's the thought that the film is an autopsy of film - as - history to this moment — an analysis of how the moving image has become in this century the only real way we access history as a people, as well as of how the image, eternally malleable within the image - maker, has now become malleable within a mainframe.

There are moments of exquisite visual splendour in every one of Spielberg's films, no matter their relative success (and The Terminal is certainly no different in that respect), but the picture is so desperate to please that it becomes facile and patronizing long before an ending that casts everything in the peculiar vintage of Spielbergian schmaltz.

It may be a bit facile to begin with talking about award contention, but Darkest Hour really is that kind of film.

The decision to double down on the film's already latent tension between authenticity and delusion doesn't feel conceptually off, but may prove divisive to viewers, as it comes across as facile, or at least too simple, a final refuge for characters already given no past or future.

Some of the dramatic beats are facile, and Garner is a weakness both in the writing and in the acting, but there's plenty of balance in the rest of the cast, and Tomlin is just pure enjoyment throughout, in a role that lets her do the puckish sourness she does best.

Tatum has proven himself a facile comic talent, but his dramatic skills to this point have been lackluster at best.Yet here he brings a brooding, insecure competitor to life in every facet of his performance.

But leave it to composer David Wingo to help get emotionally beneath the facile nature of its characters.

But there's no escaping the overly facile gameplay.

Natural, real - world intuitions are helpful in math, but there should be no facile opposition between terms like «understanding,» «hands - on,» and «real - world applications» and terms like «rote learning» and «drill and kill.»

I desperately wanted the characters to escape their inexorable fates, but I knew Jordan's writing was too strong to offer facile conclusions about the «triumph of the human spirit.»

You will have to extend your reach beyond your immediate social network to reach new readers, but you will be more comfortable doing that if you have an online presence and are facile in using online tools.

Derivative instruments are facile creatures — we can dream up anything, but what derivatives the cash markets will support is another matter.