Sentences with phrase «same facile»

Not that we can't agree about the climate, which was a trick question to begin with, a question almost everyone answers haplessly, but that we've come to believe in all seriousness that there's something * mentally wrong * with anyone who doesn't arrive at the same facile, primary - school non-answer we arrived at.

And so each case rounds up the usual suspects: the same advocacy groups, the same facile lawyers from the ACLU, the same clusters of doctors and ministers.

Not exact matches

If the same people who claim these commitments are also swayed by presidential candidates who offer only the most tangential, glancing, elliptical, and facile engagements with the texts they themselves claim to hold dear, then the emperor and his public square are, if not naked, then leaving little to the imagination.

From screenwriter Chris Terrio's self - consciously snappy dialogue to the amped - up thriller climax, actor - director Ben Affleck's third feature succeeds as a savvy, facile crowd - pleaser by hewing closely to the same Hollywood conventions that it mildly mocks.

Also cast in a frozen wasteland, hyphenate Courtney Hunt's feature debut Frozen River aspires to the same eloquence in forging a conversation between the interior and exterior worlds, drawing a quick sketch of poverty and solipsism that evolves into a giant campfire hug of teaching the world to sing or some such facile bullshit.

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.

Particularly irritating are vigorous self - promoters and newsletter - writers that are facile writers — they say lots of clever things, but they are not subject to market discipline in the same way that a portfolio manager is, who manages real money, and has real results, good or bad.

Similarly engaging with the history of painting, Otto - Knapp's works embody distinct temporalities and moods, while at the same time eschewing facile identification and locational attributes.

They all share in the same desire to achieve some facile similarity to real science, but they end up looking just as odd as the cargo culters.

As with xkcd itself, the beauty of the book is the depth of thought and extrapolation beyond the facile that goes in to answering such questions as «what would happen if everybody on earth jumped at the same time» or «what would happen if a baseball pitcher threw the ball at 9/10 the speed of light»?