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Facile in sentence

69 examples of Facile in a sentence

For us, we're very facile around electricity.
I will forego such facile criticisms as 'maudlin' or 'historically inaccurate' or 'horse's crap's crap' because quite simply our sympathies would then immediately go out to these words.
None of these people come close to a Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, etc, and anyway, today's audience isn't as receptive to this facile muck.
The writing is so obvious and facile, it's sad watching them try to sell it.
If utterly facile, regressive, self-indulgent, anti-establishment, anti-civilisation juvenilia appeals to you, then this is the ideal film.
The frustration of an uncompromisingly dedicated man (Rea in his best role since "The Crying Game"), a facile pragmatist who's willing to use the system to his advantage (Sutherland always successful in this kind of role), a hesitant, frightened but determined psychiatrist (the incomparable Max Sydow), the bumbling, boopous bureaucrat of a prosecutor (brilliant Brit actor John Wood) and the quiet, supporting wife of the driven investigator (delightful supporter, Imelda Staunton).
Some of it was poorly acted and other parts were just outright cliched and facile.
False, facile patriotism exposed and 2 older people who actually learned something from their lives - that's pretty good.
The cussing becomes ho-hum, as intended?, but it's the facile morphings of Swearingen and Bullock from scary villain to almost-lovable reprobate and stalwart no-nonsense hero to acquiescent second-banana.
The facile Clausewitzian wisdom that military action ultimately leads to a political solution is no longer convincing.
Both are dangerously facile.
But it is facile to jump from individual corporate scandals to broad conclusions about the supposed rottenness of the American economy.
While official “spin control” is in full throttle, a growing number of thoughtful analysts are voicing concern that facile caricatures do not serve Thailand’s interests.
But that is facile: inadequate attribution affects inter-state deterrence as well, yet it still operates.
But this is a facile explanation.
The truth itself is far more complex than these facile comparisons, which also makes it more durable.
Much of the facile policy advice provided to correct the German surplus seems misguided when one examines the persistent surpluses of this diverse group of countries.
He has become increasingly reliant on the facile notion that state-sponsored patriotism and nationalism can hold China’s disparate groups together.
The facile argument that Greece has little to export is irrelevant here.
Calls for more constructive engagement may sound facile, naive, or even morally precarious.
But that search for long historical continuity is facile, for it misses one of the key determinants of debt sustainability: the identity of the state’s creditor.
But to reject nationalism tout court is facile.
Given this, it is facile to blame China’s problems on government intervention.
While populists might be particularly prone to advocating facile solutions, they hardly have a monopoly on that tactic.
It would be facile to blame disillusion with elites on new technology.
On closer scrutiny, such facile phrases are deeply disturbing.
But that is too facile, because it ignores serious questions concerning how honest we want our political leaders and our political discourse to be.
While there was concern in Europe about the growing strength of armies, the view that the war was precipitated directly by the arms race is facile.
On the far right, free-market ideologues deny climate change because it threatens their facile economic ideology.
If the European Monetary Union is to survive and ultimately thrive, its leaders must not be tempted by facile solutions.
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