Sentences with phrase «facile at»

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

In the book, Ms. Lipstadt wrote that Mr. Irving, now 62, was «one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial» and said that «he is at his most facile at taking accurate information and shaping it to conform to his conclusions.»

I gave it up in graduate school when I realized I'd gotten very facile at it.

Turning to the school curriculum, literacy teaching and learning involves knowing how the language system works; being facile at creating, comprehending and interpreting text; and most important, insuring each student ownership so literacy can serve his or her goals (see Figure 2).

Meanwhile, screenwriter Andy Bellin's attempts to juxtapose Lovelace's real - life feelings with those of her Deep Throat persona — a gentle wallflower who just needed a little nurturing to bloom into a Venus Fly Trap — are facile at best.

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.

Now that she's facile at telling time she has written on a chalkboard circle when each item of the morning (breakfast, get dressed, brush, pee etc) needs to be done.

Not exact matches

I am quite surprised at Andrew J. Bacevich's naive and facile condemnation of Senator Robert Kerrey -LRB-» The Vietnam Wars,» August / September).

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.

After playing four away games in a row, it should be a relief to play a couple at home in the coming week, although our facile beating of Stoke is our only home victory so far this season.

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.

Simeone put out a full strength team at the Mestalla stadium and many people, myself included, expected a facile victory against a Valencia team that has stuggled this season.

So when wrestling the stroller to the ground for the first try, then this product won't be a facile fold at all.

Mike Nozzolio looks like a fat facile jackass here — not at all clever or persuasive.

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

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.

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.

For a facile, glossily uninvolving treatment, witness this mawkish stab at magical realism from David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada).

At some point, American Beauty isn't a lean satire so much as a reductive, facile, mean - spirited sitcom that — perhaps inadvertently, for what it's worth — sees Lester's desire for a muscle car, a job flipping burgers, the freedom to call his wife and daughter «bitch,» and a liaison with jailbait Angela (Mena Suvari) as the secret of life.

Her choice is at the heart of a piece oft dismissed as a facile Cain & Abel intrigue, despite that it only provides a surface glance off the brother's relationship to one another and their father.

Mendes proves quite facile in using the acting assets he has at his disposal to maximum effect.

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.

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.

When Miranda Decklemann started as a teacher leader at Viveiros Elementary, she was facile in analyzing multiple pieces of data to improve performance within her classroom — and she assumed her team of 1st grade teachers would be similarly skilled.

Just take a glimpse at these issues and see which technical glitch is annoying you most, we have some facile steps or you can also call on professionals.

These days, talk of bonuses being invested at the beginning of the year, and investors & hedge funds / prop desks then selling out for their summer holidays, seems a little too facile an explanation to me.

The moment - to - moment of Earth Defense Force has a mostly facile Serious Sam sensibility: shoot wildly at a bunch of stuff that runs up at you, often while you run backwards.

The gallery devoted to the artist - as - celebrity, for instance, which typifies the work based on a conceptual twist, is off - putting in its self - regard and facile irony, though the puppets seated in a corner of the floor, which were conceived by Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija as stand - ins for fellow artists at a 2005 panel discussion, possess a certain flat - footed charm.

The unpredictable, rich yet uningratiating dimensional materiality of the paint strokes in these paintings, and the density of mark making has generally been of greater interest to me than the late paintings, some of which were on view in Mitchell's 2002 retrospective at the Whitney Museum — I saw these as too big, too empty, too facile, without tension.

Either they are throwing a (mightily odd) curveball at their audience, presenting a show of works that demonstrate where the original impulse of the black square died; or this is just a genuinely facile grouping.

In high school I'd been led to believe that the study of traditional painting techniques was a common jumping off point to more personal types of expression (think Picasso and Duchamp), but for some reason, probably my punk hair and clothes, the in - crowd at school considered my type of tight, facile realism to be threatening.

The act of erasure wasn't a facile one of wiping it out: the drawing clung to the paper and it took days of intense labour to get rid of its last faint traces, so that in the process Rauschenberg must have stared at that drawing with longer, and more fixated attention than anyone had ever brought to the scrutiny of a De Kooning, not excluding the Dutchman himself.

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.

Not that we can't agree about the climate, which was a trick question to begin with, a question almost everyone answers haplessly, but that we've come to believe in all seriousness that there's something * mentally wrong * with anyone who doesn't arrive at the same facile, primary - school non-answer we arrived at.

It would explain the painfully facile attempt to claim that AGW is a non-issue on the basis of a hiatus that still has the NH land average temperature trending * up * at a whopping ~ 0.4 C / decade.

And while you're at it, would you mind commenting on how much «courage» it takes to make facile and specious charges and then not allow a defense pointing out your error?

The focus should change from bulky, comprehensive studies to deeper, more facile efforts targeted at phenomena and impacts that are poorly understood and could become critical.

The easiest thing to do was rejecting the facile readings that hit press: those readings were,» boys will be boys», «corruption» and «persecuted» We looked at the development of the bunker mentality.

As with xkcd itself, the beauty of the book is the depth of thought and extrapolation beyond the facile that goes in to answering such questions as «what would happen if everybody on earth jumped at the same time» or «what would happen if a baseball pitcher threw the ball at 9/10 the speed of light»?