Sentences with phrase «such facile»

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.

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.

Scientific method, though, can not reconcile itself to teleological perspectives and, therefore, must reject any such facile covenants of man with a world that is alien to his longings for ultimate meaning.2 Monod's position is reminiscent of innumerable others that see the reading of purpose into nature as analogous to our subjectively superimposing colorful secondary qualities onto starkly colorless «objective» and neutral primary qualities.

Not exact matches

This contention is not defeated merely by a critic's facile claim not to be conscious of any such nonsensuous perception of one's own «self,» or of anything describable as experience mediating one's experiences of trees, dogs, and fire hydrants.

But for this Christianity in the world itself, the decisive task of the Church is definitely not a facile preparation of concrete patterns for such a Christian life, of such a kind that it would only be necessary to copy them obediently, conscientiously and comfortably for one to be ipso facto a good Christian.

Such joy is not facile or simpleminded, but rather a recognition and celebration of created life:

Finally, it is facile for philosophers to invoke common sense, a heuristic which informs us that the earth is flat, the sun orbits the earth, and other such now - discredited notions.

They hoke up meaningful stories such as «We Are Marshall» and «Friday Night Lights» to get facile, unquestioned, reflexive responses from their audience.

The special virtue of his painting was said to be found not in facile innovations — from the very start of his celebrity on the New York scene, his work was curiously exempted from such «vulgar» criteria, which were nonetheless rigorously enforced in judging painters outside the magic cir cle.

These trends had been exacerbated since the 1990s by the fragmentation of media (Internet, talk radio), which promoted counter-scientific beliefs such as fear of vaccines among even educated people, by providing facile elaborations of false arguments and a ceaseless repetition of allegations.

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.

It's similar to the facile association of increased fossil fuel usage and increased standard of living w / o accounting for the influence of other factors that directly affect development such as increased civil rights, spending on education, etc..

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»?