Sentences with phrase «so facile»

Hi Fan, This is so facile, and so insultingly patronizing, I don't even know where to start.

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.

Buchanan's earlier work is self - consciously eclectic; pictorial conventions and styles are subsumed within a technique so facile it is ultimately cloying.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know, or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

It's so facile it can't even be arsed to give you a reload button.

Regrettably, the modern characters are so facile that they barely qualify as two - dimensional.

Not exact matches

So, please let me know if you think this insight is clever, crazy, or facile.

He is so astonishingly facile with numbers that it is almost eerie.)

But those who worked so hard to make it a priority are justifiably worried that this great achievement could be undermined by the foreign policy establishment's habits of facile expediency.

And there is something pernicious about the facile equation of poverty with victimization; doing so condescendingly and harmfully excuses the poor from complying with the moral and practical imperatives that govern the lives of everyone else.

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.

As Whitehead so magnificently said it, «The book of Job is the revolt against the facile solution, so esteemed by fortunate people, that the sufferer is the evil person» (RM 49).

Locke promoted the facile harmony between rational independence and moral dependence with so much success that modern higher education does not fathom that there ever was a tension in the first place, that reason and morality aren't simply identical, that rational freedom does not exhaust the whole of virtue.

He sought to avoid, and rightly so, any facile or sentimental deference to religion.

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.

After playing four away games in a row, it should be a relief to play a couple at home in the coming week, although our facile beating of Stoke is our only home victory so far this season.

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

Two beautiful people struggle to maintain their marriage despite lures of infidelity in Last Night, the type of project in which movie stars indulge their oh - so - serious side via facile stripped - down character drama.

Instead, ordinarily resourceful actors like Pike can only do so much when they're saddled with explaining who they are and what they believe in facile ways.

Thing that's interesting about «The Simple Life» is that it's as worthless and worthy of derision as Nicole and Paris, products, both, of a fast, facile culture that favours beautiful people so vacuous that as soon as the wind shifts, the destruction of them is brought to pass with zero effort in zero time.

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.

There are moments of exquisite visual splendour in every one of Spielberg's films, no matter their relative success (and The Terminal is certainly no different in that respect), but the picture is so desperate to please that it becomes facile and patronizing long before an ending that casts everything in the peculiar vintage of Spielbergian schmaltz.

So when Iron Man Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) decide to throw down in Civil War, it's an honest germination of the seeds of conflict sewn through two other Avengers movies, not the facile product of a movie studio demanding that two icons battle each other in order to jump - start a franchise.

So begins a set of sometimes facile, sometimes fascinating interactions and character developments that contain their share of surprises and honesty.

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).

Based on her facile maneuvering (and perhaps aided by her quick wit), Taub offered her a gig as a production assistant so she could dip her toes in the precision - driving business.

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.

So, when I read facile pieces suggesting that FAS 157 has been gutted, (and here) I just groan.

He was very facile, and he was so used to putting in the highlights that, you know, that he didn't see them anymore.

The act of erasure wasn't a facile one of wiping it out: the drawing clung to the paper and it took days of intense labour to get rid of its last faint traces, so that in the process Rauschenberg must have stared at that drawing with longer, and more fixated attention than anyone had ever brought to the scrutiny of a De Kooning, not excluding the Dutchman himself.

In doing so, the best he can offer from moral philosophy is a reduction of complicated scientific, political, and economic arguments to facile comparisons of «business as usual» to «standing around, watching a child drown».

Not everyone who needs to know about climate change is a scientist (ie, facile in Latin) so science language needs to be accurate, sans forays into the esoteric.

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.

I am so tired of people who call themselves scientists all the while taking a thoroughly glaringly obviously facile pseudo-science and elevating it to holy writ.

So really I think you should take you're facile, specious and uneducated reasoning and dump it all down the toilet where it belongs.

So tucci «infers» about lolwot's education, and compares him to a «weasel,» and when I point to the facile nature of tucci's reasoning, my comment gets deleted — presumably because Judith considers it «flame warring,» but tucci's comments get described as «fun.»

Call it PDO if you wish (I've developed an allergy to facile acronyms describing simplistic «mechanisms»), or call it back - to - the - fifties, the shift was broad and so distinct as to be hard to miss.