Sentences with phrase «seem facile»

This framing device may seem facile at first, but it provides «Nymphomaniac: Volume I» with both perspective and a hugely enjoyable streak of absurd humor.

Certainly the effect seems facile — if not exactly glib, then more ambivalent and anxious than the subject warrants.

Not exact matches

One would never guess, furthermore, from Wolterstorff's presentation that contemporary advocates of marriage as irreducibly procreative have also thought deeply about the reality of marriage past childbearing age, about infertility and contraception, and offered sophisticated responses that make laugh lines like Wolterstorff's seem entirely facile.

He has consistently advocated a kind of post-political brand of governance that seems to assume that partisan conflicts are never reflections of genuine versus spurious disagreement, are always based upon miscommunication or ideological dogmatism, and are never the result of competing worldviews that are held with deep, thoughtful conviction and are therefore resistant to facile revision.

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.

By the end of the 2000s, web - search and constant connectivity had given the world's information to every employee, whenever and wherever they needed it, and eLearning seemed like a facile distraction rather than a critical performance enabler.

These days, talk of bonuses being invested at the beginning of the year, and investors & hedge funds / prop desks then selling out for their summer holidays, seems a little too facile an explanation to me.

Back then in the 80s, he says, it «seemed like through our media and communications there'd be a kind of facile way of connecting people, a sort of passivity and turning on your cable TV and seeing what's going on today in Tokyo or in Europe and you sort of feel like you can take all this stuff in.

The works may seem effortless or facile but they result from a lifelong exploration of the possibilities of color and abstraction.

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