Sentences with phrase «often facile»

The cultural and class - homogenizing impulse while often facile is not the way of the cross.

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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.
When he leans too far to one side, which actually doesn't happen all that often, the album can feel mournful or facile.
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.
The answers according to this movie are very different from the standard facile romcoms that are most often produced in Hollywood.
I was impressed with the erudite response; I am even more impressed today, given the facile answers often given by politicians to constituents.
Often they have been misled by third - party pricing services doing a facile job in exchange for a fee.
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.
Belying their often times facile and paired - down aesthetic the compositions provide a glimpse into the encyclopedic mind of their maker.
Siltation is often given as a facile explanation, but doesn't fit with observed geology, or written records.
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.
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