Sentences with phrase «for facile»

Graphs can be handy but they are naturally rigged for facile belief.

That's a much better place for the facile mudslinging and name - calling.

Yet for all the admirable narrative economy this engenders, Altman's TV background also produces occasional, lamentable blackout gags that violate the plausibility of the characters or their situations for the sake of easy sitcom sign - offs; it also allows for facile conceits.

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.

Perhaps to compensate for its facile plot, the camera often lingers on close - up shots of the three leads as they each process their feelings, fresh trauma quietly unloading in their eyes as they serenely try to accept what has transpired.

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

«Experts» who are too mentally sluggish in the quest for truth reach for the facile and incorrect answer that «All diets are equal».

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While we don't subscribe to facile explanations for why the markets do what they do on any given day, we're sure that policy uncertainty is playing its part.

It is a long and damaging leap to go from here to the conclusion that it is «facile» and «falsely objective» for them to even try.

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.

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).»

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

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.

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.

Finally, it is facile for philosophers to invoke common sense, a heuristic which informs us that the earth is flat, the sun orbits the earth, and other such now - discredited notions.

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.

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 apparent that the prophet's own mind makes a facile transition from sensory perception to psychic perception, that is, from what is seen and heard with eye and ear to what is, no less realistically for him, internally perceived and psychically apprehended.

«It is facile and ultimately misleading for orthodox Christians to identify, face, and respond to their churches» errors by saying «repudiate and separate»... for the simple reason that this is not the shape of Israel's history — which must ultimately be our own — because it is not the shape of Jesus» own life.

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

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.

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

By comprehending the ever - growing exigency of this affordable tool, different brands are coming with innovative design and exclusive built quality and making the whole breastfeeding job more facile than ever for new mom.

Finally, the unfortunate references to Justice Jide Falola and the criticism of the legal basis on which he passed his verdict have merely been substituting facile caricature for rigorous analysis.

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.

That could lead to facile and inexpensive synthesis of molecules for electronic materials and anti-mycotic drugs.

Kohli, Manu, et al. «Facile methods for generating human somatic cell gene knockouts using recombinant adeno ‐ associated viruses.»

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

Says Sive, «The zebrafish is a fantastic, facile system for discovering the mechanisms by which genes work.»

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.

For some, this is far too facile and superficial; however it could just work for yFor some, this is far too facile and superficial; however it could just work for yfor you.

This season, having already offered up Lindsay's perhaps too - facile explanation for what makes Dexter tick, the writers seem to be digging deeper into Butcher Boy's psyche, even as his colleagues find themselves digging deeper into his after - hours work.

For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles - style self - obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send - For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles - style self - obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send - for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send - up.

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).

While the Disney - mandated «Frozen» shakes up some of the studio's formula for animated musical fairy tales with its progressive female - centric narrative, it's still a slick piece of commercial entertainment that's virtually impossible to disentangle from the facile pop melodies of its hit single, «Let It Go.»

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.

In fact, it's childish, facile and more pointless than manning the phone - lines for the Rob Green retirement fund.

For a while, the laughs come in great big waves, after which they wash ashore as mere chuckles, weighed down by facile dramatics.

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.

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

Repetition of this facile argument is key, down to a speech given here by a pre-Civil War Republican: «We, the Republicans, are against slavery, and the Democrats are for slavery.»

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.

Here he guides Cage and Caine to the right groove for reflection and possible growth, stepping over the traps of the maudlin and the facile.

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.

And the facile humor of Michael McKean's J. Edgar Hoover choosing his words carefully about whether to exploit the arrest of Johnson's favorite aide - de-camp (a memorable Christopher Liam Moore) for indecent homosexual acts is unhelpful.

Would that the same depths could be plumbed from Nicolas Cage's sad, glassy, slightly - offset eyes in Gore Verbinski's facile reach for mainstream subversion, The Weather Man.

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.

For instance, Math, Science, and Social Studies in an interactive digital materials format can practically offer a locally configured standards - aligned approach to learning, using, and assessing concepts and skills in an engaging and facile digital environment.

To be honest, I, too, have on occasion found comfort in such facile explanations for the nation's abject failure to deal with so many glaring problems, including several of interest to readers of car magazines: the pervasive failure to address global warming and finite supplies of fossil fuels; tens of thousands of road fatalities year in and year out; the burgeoning safety risk caused by in - car communications and telematics; the failure to maintain the roads we've got while creating better ones and efficient alternatives; and, of course, our continued inability to buy new Peugeots in the United States.

For all you writers out there, Amazon provides a facile way to publish your book on their e-store.