Sentences with phrase «facile in»

Other managers making upwardly mobile headway include lateral hiring professionals, often former or current partners or lawyers in the firm, who have significant experience and are personally facile in the complex aspects of hiring lateral partners.

Not everyone who needs to know about climate change is a scientist (ie, facile in Latin) so science language needs to be accurate, sans forays into the esoteric.

He was also facile in landscape painting and watercolors and painted ambitious and highly - regarded murals for several significant buildings in Boston and Cambridge — the Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Public Library, and Harvard's Widener Library.

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.

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.

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

Wilson emphasizes the importance of both women for understanding Lewis; unfortunately he is facile in discussing these two relationships.

Not exact matches

We need agencies to become as facile as we are in the data and as close to the business as we are.

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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.

Admittedly, it is frustratingly difficult to define anti-Semitism, and the very term has been recklessly debased by its facile use in order to silence critics (see the reference above to Freedman of Dartmouth).

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.

Certainly there can be no facile statement that it was Catholicism itself that obstructed the advance of science in Galileo's day.

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.

I believe that Muller's mistake is rooted in a too facile assimilation of Hume and Burke (Burke attacked metaphysical politics and not metaphysics per se, and assuredly believed that custom as «second nature» was deeply rooted in an unchangeable human and social nature) and in a general failure to confront fully the important conservative critique of relativism and historicism.

Conceding his «second thoughts» about how virtue has been treated by his colleagues, he rejects their facile equation of the concept with complete self - sacrifice in the name of the public good.

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).»

Alot of facile shallow remarks everytime there's anything to do with the RCC in the news.

What marked Merton's interest in Eastern thought was his refusal to make facile and misleading appropriations of Eastern spirituality.

We're simply Christian realists who believe in Original Sin, and reject the facile idea of modern «progress.

In each of these topics — themes which go to the very heart of the Gospel — there materialized no quick or facile agreement.

In that spirit the editors distanced them on February 2, 1938, from facile old modernisms that only wanted to be tied to science and progress.

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?

Facile critiques of neo-Thomism which abounded in the conciliar era have been accepted indiscriminately.

In films that make the point that God can bring good out of evil, there is always a danger of becoming facile and condescending — an unexpected blessing proves that it was all for the best, and the evil wasn't so bad to begin with.

Many of these pieces are written against bumptious scholarship and facile tastes, and in defense of rarer qualities.

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).

It is perhaps as well to state explicitly that if the reader indulges in the facile vice of bifurcation not a word of what I have here written will be intelligible.

Locke promoted the facile harmony between rational independence and moral dependence with so much success that modern higher education does not fathom that there ever was a tension in the first place, that reason and morality aren't simply identical, that rational freedom does not exhaust the whole of virtue.

I don't resort to facile promises in ancient texts for the strength to persevere.

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.

Some of the environmentalists, in their facile enthusiasm, lend support to this.

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.

Arsenal have flown back into the Top Three since disturbingly losing our opening game to West Ham, and in our facile win over Stoke yesterday we managed 69 % of the possession and our opponents hardly had the ball enough to create many chances.

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

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.

This is also worth a downvote as it uses «communism» in a facile way, when it would have to discuss the meaning of communism as used in this answer to answer the question.

Claims that Corbyn «embarrassed his critics» by losing council seats are facile, even on their own terms; there was a 3 % swing towards the Tories compared with when the seats were last fought, in 2012.

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

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.

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.

Labour leader complains about «shallow, facile» media treatment and accuses some in party of aiding it in Vice documentary

In some accounts, where I know the science, the explanations are rather facile.

While researchers focusing on polymer nanocomposites have achieved facile control of nanoparticle organization in an amorphous polymer matrix (i.e. the polymer does not crystallize), to date no one has been able to tune nanoparticle assembly in a crystalline polymer matrix.

However, facile detachment of some side groups is possible to give the linear conjugated polyenes and this protocol will be disclosed in the 98th annual meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan.

And 30 years ago, when the field of evolutionary psychology was gaining steam, some facile parallels between ancient and modern behaviors lodged themselves in the popular conceptions of human evolution.

Razib Khan of Discover Magazine's Gene Expression blog, challenges the facile reporting in a slew of articles based on an...