Sentences with phrase «how facile»

I respond by pointing out how facile those arguments are, which then generates further insults towards me.

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.

Not exact matches

He supports this claim by pointing out how da Vinci's portraits defy facile analysis — how the interpretation of his portraits» moods is wide open to the imagination.

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.

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.

With Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel, Levenson aims to clear up this confusion by showing how it can be traced back to facile thinking.

The entire cast comes off as real people that are just trying to figure out how they should react to someone as facile and artificial as Roger.

Facile, but good in a pinch; apply it to Todd Haynes's fascinating I'm Not There and suddenly there's the thought that the film is an autopsy of film - as - history to this moment — an analysis of how the moving image has become in this century the only real way we access history as a people, as well as of how the image, eternally malleable within the image - maker, has now become malleable within a mainframe.

«These are people who are facile with data, strong analytically, and who know how to think about problem solving.»

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).

It would be far too facile to blame the failure of the Copenhagen talks or American carbon - capping legislation on these revelations, given how the unraveling of the economy and other issues were dominating debate over climate.

I question, however, how much they have shaped the course of history — as ethics manifest in the actions of those interpreting them, and I certainly question GaryM's facile determination that our society is devolving, ethically, because of some «abandonment» of those ethics.

The problem is the facile culture of fake science fans who are gulled into proselytizing for somebody's political agenda, and all because they want to skip out on the work of understanding where the data comes from and what it actually means, while still patting themselves on the back about how intensely they love science.

IMO, the point is to call out the facile nature of statements such as «global warming has stopped,» rather than to argue how, if you squint just so in the exactly right kind of light, it might not look exactly like propaganda.

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?

I spoke to tucci's, and how it was obviously facile, not to mention filled with insults.

One of David Wojick's pet peeves is the facile nature in how people lable behavior as either «rational» or «irrational.»

Perhaps it would help your understanding, if you are so facile, to do an honest job of recapping my argument concerning recent and past emissions and how they bear on thresholds.

Granted the analogy is facile, but it continues to mystify me how meaningful conclusions can be drawn about climate over a period of decades.

Considering how serious he seems to be taking the issue, Ban was facile with the puns, including the following in his remarks yesterday:

If you'd like your biography to better reflect who you really are, but you don't know how to say anything about yourself that doesn't feel facile or self - regarding, you might try this: ask other people to do it for you.