Sentences with phrase «with facile»

I usually don't bother with facile crap like this — but I find the fluffery, the sociology of denialism, the shallow science references, the appalling stylistics, the stilted and incoherent language and the utterly obnoxious nature of his discourse annoying enough to deconstruct it.

Many dump on it with facile but incorrect criticisms.

This is not something you can wave away with facile arguments — it has been experimentally verified thousands of times in virtually every field of engineering and science.

You're a shopkeeper with a facile AGW space cadet narrative superficially in the objective idiom of science.

I don't know why Mr. Noel needs to preface his ideas on art with a facile account of religion.

He tempts me with facile confirmation of my own prejudices, and that alone tells me to watch out.

That's why we are here with the facile steps to update any Kindle version easily.

But with Schwartzmans politically loaded job (he protests suburban sprawl) and Wahlbergs anti-petroleum stance, things devolve into an «issues» shouting match with the «Average Americans» content with facile short - term thinking and denial of long - term consequences and reliance on blind faith.

He beats a prisoner until he's wrestled away and later talks back to a superior officer, two acts of defiance laden with facile symbolism.

The movie flirts with some facile ideas about the value of life, but at the end, we're left feeling drained and wondering if the sound and fury signified anything at all.

Hemsworth is likable with a facile but puzzling Scottish brogue (I'm guessing it's Scottish — there's no reason I could discern for any accent whatsoever).

The word Messiah, which means literally «anointed one,» points strictly, of course, to an individual; but in the psychology of Israel with its facile and often unconscious transitions from individual to corporate personality, we are hardly wrong in allowing a broader definition to the term Messianism, in which emphasis is placed upon the redemptive function of the human entity, whether group or individual.

Paul attempted this with his facile quips, «The wisdom of the world is foolishness with God.»

Not exact matches

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

Conceding his «second thoughts» about how virtue has been treated by his colleagues, he rejects their facile equation of the concept with complete self - sacrifice in the name of the public good.

Alot of facile shallow remarks everytime there's anything to do with the RCC in the news.

No facile resolutions of this dilemma are offered the hearer (reader) of the sermon, but the hearer is invited to go on struggling with the problem under the grace of God.

A greater difficulty with the cardinal's lecture, however, is the facile move from Bible quoting to public - policy prescription.

Anyone with a whiff of concentration could charge you with inconsistency, but hey ho, since we're dealing in facile accusations and ONLY facile accusation I suppose it's ok huh?

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.

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.

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.

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.

With Resurrection and the Restoration of Israel, Levenson aims to clear up this confusion by showing how it can be traced back to facile thinking.

It is apparent that the prophet's own mind makes a facile transition from sensory perception to psychic perception, that is, from what is seen and heard with eye and ear to what is, no less realistically for him, internally perceived and psychically apprehended.

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.

The facile identification of America with the Germany of the 1930s, of ugly expressions of black racism with the Holocaust, and of a bright young journalistic self with the intellectually formidable Hannah Arendt — all this is the enemy of clear thinking.

Once again, atheists have shown that while they are facile and glib with parlor constructs, they refuse to objectively examine their own fallacies.

The graceful and loving presence of Christ may well be active within the kinds of events just reported, but both faith in Christ and appreciation of the abundant fertility of Eros resist the facile equation of specific parish events with the activity of Christ.

By comprehending the ever - growing exigency of this affordable tool, different brands are coming with innovative design and exclusive built quality and making the whole breastfeeding job more facile than ever for new mom.

But facile comparisons aside, the prime minister is damning himself with his own words here.

This discourse has enabled the facile division of «East» and «West,» and has played readily into the hands of those with an exclusionary nationalist or isolationist bent.

Claims that Corbyn «embarrassed his critics» by losing council seats are facile, even on their own terms; there was a 3 % swing towards the Tories compared with when the seats were last fought, in 2012.

That suggests she might not be all that facile with the rigorous, sometimes surprising give - and - take of a live - wire campaign.

But her comparison with the notorious anti-communist witch - hunt by US senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s was branded as «facile» by Labour backbencher Stephen Pound, who said MPs had only themselves to blame for their current difficulties.

«To facilitate the translation of more personalized therapeutics, we require investigators facile with model systems, informatics, principles of drug action, quantitative signatures of drug exposure, and both mechanism - based and unbiased readouts of drug effects.»

Through the Kavli IFN we'll be making sure to put young researchers in an atmosphere where they can become facile with all these ways of thinking.

Alejandro (Alex) Chavez is a member of the Addgene Scientific Advisory Board with a particular interest in generating Cas9 based tools to enable facile control of DNA and RNA.

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

With a less compelling lead performance, the movie's dodgy limitations and flashy, facile editing and cross-cutting might've proven insufferable.

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.

What do you get when you cross writer / director Alex Garland with producer Scott Rudin and a facile read of Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach Trilogy?

For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles - style self - obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send - up.

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.

While the Disney - mandated «Frozen» shakes up some of the studio's formula for animated musical fairy tales with its progressive female - centric narrative, it's still a slick piece of commercial entertainment that's virtually impossible to disentangle from the facile pop melodies of its hit single, «Let It Go.»

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.

Jordan recalls some of Washington's facile manner, but he acts with a depth of social significance Washington lacks; part of it coming from a generational advantage.

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.