Sentences with phrase «too facile»

It would be far too facile to blame the failure of the Copenhagen talks or American carbon - capping legislation on these revelations, given how the unraveling of the economy and other issues were dominating debate over climate.

Just showing that temperatures rose while TSI fell is too facile, but the Keenlyside projections take this into account and warn of ocean heat eventually catching up again.

The relationship to painting is referenced in glib fashion; the associative pun to taste — both in its sensory and cultural definitions — is too facile, too direct.

The unpredictable, rich yet uningratiating dimensional materiality of the paint strokes in these paintings, and the density of mark making has generally been of greater interest to me than the late paintings, some of which were on view in Mitchell's 2002 retrospective at the Whitney Museum — I saw these as too big, too empty, too facile, without tension.

It would be too facile to claim that this one recollection is the root of all his squares; but it might be true to say that the man's obsessive investigation of squareness helps to explain why that particular memory had primal status for him.

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.

It sounds too basic, too facile and simplistic.

Ruzowitzky's directorial style may be a bit too facile for the material.

Two earlier films in the 1970s dramatized the Entebbe raid in ways that Brühl felt were too facile.

There's real heart to be found in the story but it comes along with borderline saccharine sentimentality, a too facile ending, and clean outcomes that aren't earned.

I think film style has become too synthetic and screenwriting too facile to grapple with the implications ambitious mainstream filmmakers like to raise.

For some, this is far too facile and superficial; however it could just work for you.

Many of these aphorisms reinforce the too facile portrayal of scientists as theorists and explorers, while engineers are solvers of real - world problems.

Whether or not Mr. Gore understands the difference between the notions of climate and weather, it is important that we not obscure it by too facile generalizations about chaotic and irregular behavior.

What is basic to both Mollenkott's and Jewett's positions is too facile an exegesis of key Biblical passages.

That is too facile.

I believe that Muller's mistake is rooted in a too facile assimilation of Hume and Burke (Burke attacked metaphysical politics and not metaphysics per se, and assuredly believed that custom as «second nature» was deeply rooted in an unchangeable human and social nature) and in a general failure to confront fully the important conservative critique of relativism and historicism.

Not exact matches

It is all too easy to dismiss Teilhard as a facile optimist, without penetrating to the root of his desperate vision.

«Experts» who are too mentally sluggish in the quest for truth reach for the facile and incorrect answer that «All diets are equal».

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.

When he leans too far to one side, which actually doesn't happen all that often, the album can feel mournful or facile.

The mild jabs thrown at a facile self - help book called 7 Billion People and You are too soft to leave a mark — but then, maybe self - help isn't the right target for this film.

The decision to double down on the film's already latent tension between authenticity and delusion doesn't feel conceptually off, but may prove divisive to viewers, as it comes across as facile, or at least too simple, a final refuge for characters already given no past or future.

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.

I desperately wanted the characters to escape their inexorable fates, but I knew Jordan's writing was too strong to offer facile conclusions about the «triumph of the human spirit.»