Sentences with word «facile»

He tempts me with facile confirmation of my own prejudices, and that alone tells me to watch out.

Ruzowitzky's directorial style may be a bit too facile for the material.

He's rolling in dough and he's good - looking, with a knockout fiancee in Avery Bishop (Kelly Preston), a publicist for the National Football League who is as facile in the bedroom as she is in the boardroom.

The story of a fragile community stranded in the desert by a fear - mongering charlatan could have been settled for facile political allegory, yet Reichardt is after something more uncanny and mysterious.

Though the tradition of solid scholarship and painstaking research still persists in some parts of academe, many of the theologians who gain national press and prestige today do so either as clever faddists or as facile exegetes of what had seemed profundities.

English educators must also question why students are so facile at reading film texts when they frequently struggle with print texts.

More facile interpretations of the latter half of this characterization have positioned Reinhardt as a proto - Minimalist, citing his pioneering use of many of the movement's shibboleths: modularity, seriality, monochromy, impersonal facture, etc..

And if you doubt the specious and facile nature of your charge, would you care to put some money up pending an agreed upon method for validating your charge?

Perhaps I will become facile at making shorter hyperlink tags, as Tom Curtis has mastered.

Instead, ordinarily resourceful actors like Pike can only do so much when they're saddled with explaining who they are and what they believe in facile ways.

That's a rather facile answer.

He was obviously much happier after yesterday's facile win.

Similarly engaging with the history of painting, Otto - Knapp's works embody distinct temporalities and moods, while at the same time eschewing facile identification and locational attributes.

Norton's immense scale, on first glance, recall the great painters of the 1950's — Pollock, Still, Dekooning and Rothko — with a further facile read, a more contemporary master, Richter.

Through the Kavli IFN we'll be making sure to put young researchers in an atmosphere where they can become facile with all these ways of thinking.

You can not use it in a way that may cause confusion in the public that your goods and services are related to theirs - Prima facile using them in the way you describe would do this.

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.

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.»

The nature of his curse is never fully explained, only reasoned through rather facile implication (Porco is a male chauvinist and generally pig - headed in the literal sense), and Miyazaki's script as a whole is nowhere near the fairly dense plotting of a Nausicaä.

That can feel a bit facile at times, because it suggests that said problems are superficial enough to be solved with a few simple tweaks.

The first is that K - 12 policy is, unfortunately, especially susceptible to faddish and facile ideas.

Contino's early geometric works used precisely measured grids, and his later paintings and reliefs were done with systematically developed variations, all of which avoided narration and facile interpretations.

Mix & match church attendance is a creation of, and facile solution for brethren suffering from the effects of loveless marriages, spiritually & possibly naturally.

Furthermore, you're looking at the settlement issue in a very facile way, in terms of purely the physical size of the settlements.

The activities in this lesson ask students to reflect on their own experiences as targets and perpetrators of prejudice and in doing so encourage students to consider their responsibility to push beyond facile stereotypes when making judgments about individuals and groups.

Mr Farron periodically pops up to make these outrageously facile statements.

But Kojima's main problem isn't the clot of facile political nonsense.

In a similar manner, Ellul has shown earlier that we have preferred the wrong sort of revolution (Autopsy of Revolution, Changer de révolution), given ourselves to the wrong sort of prayer (Prayer and Modern Man), allowed the idolatrous city to dominate our affections (The Meaning of the City), and substituted facile belief for vital faith (Living Faith).

South of Hell is an easily digestible piece of horror froth that's totally enjoyable, if entirely facile.

However, the reverence and sense of nostalgia with which he conveys his subjects defies such facile categorization.

For the past four decades, Suzan Frecon has become known for abstract oil paintings and watercolors that avoid facile explanations or recognizable visual associations.

Alejandro (Alex) Chavez is a member of the Addgene Scientific Advisory Board with a particular interest in generating Cas9 based tools to enable facile control of DNA and RNA.

In watching students use iPads, it's remarkable to see how facile they are in moving, adjusting and rearranging text in a Pages document, for example.

According to Gaudelli and Martenson, «GCC courses include a variety of activities that encourage collaboration with colleagues, co-development of work products, dialoging across and about difference, inquiring into complex subject matters that defy facile explanation, experiencing life in another part of the world and working with colleagues to translate all of this into their classroom teaching.»

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 cultural and class - homogenizing impulse while often facile is not the way of the cross.

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.

In 1918, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips published «American Negro Slavery,» which framed slavery as a labor agreement between masters and happy slaves — facile thinking that persists today.

How this question will settle out across Europe is anyone's guess, but it is hard to deny that the burqa wars have already unsettled facile notions of Europe as a bastion of multicultural understanding.

From handwringing conflict to facile resolution.

And so each case rounds up the usual suspects: the same advocacy groups, the same facile lawyers from the ACLU, the same clusters of doctors and ministers.