Sentences with phrase «facile read»

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.

What do you get when you cross writer / director Alex Garland with producer Scott Rudin and a facile read of Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy?

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.

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I must admit I was very shocked to see the facile dismissal of L. Frank Baum's Oz series, and I truly can not imagine how anyone could read the books and not be completely charmed by them.

Scientific method, though, can not reconcile itself to teleological perspectives and, therefore, must reject any such facile covenants of man with a world that is alien to his longings for ultimate meaning.2 Monod's position is reminiscent of innumerable others that see the reading of purpose into nature as analogous to our subjectively superimposing colorful secondary qualities onto starkly colorless «objective» and neutral primary qualities.

The work, the team suggests, provides a facile strategy for fabricating highly efficient electrocatalysts from earth - abundant materials for... Read more →

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.

So, when I read facile pieces suggesting that FAS 157 has been gutted, (and here) I just groan.