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facile sentence examples

  • Facile to say that these planetary movements are governed by gravity.
  • Facile assumptions most computer stores may not realize.
  • Thus, it may be too facile to blame the ' increase ' on a greater popularity of smoking among women.
  • It may seem facile to talk, at such a time, about failure being a signpost for future success.
  • I thought that was a pretty facile argument then and i think it is a pretty facile argument now.
  • Although these may sound rather facile, they probably work well in practice, especially if others do not know they are there.
  • They can guzzle champagne till it runs from their ears, and become facile to the point of dumbness.
  • Facile ground, i would see that there is close connection between all parts of my army.
  • It has been used here in a very facile manner, very arrogantly.
  • Facile optimism which we pointed to throughout much of the 1980s is still there.
  • One somewhat facile response is that for several research purposes, deep contextual knowledge is not essential.
  • Facile conclusions, no murmured easy redemption to assuage the common pain.
  • At first thought, linking soul music with food may seem like a peculiar, if slightly facile, connection.
  • Facile attempt to explain away the continuation of child care at the nursery after the voluntary suspension was wholly unimpressive.
  • So it is a little facile to think that the use of modern technology has simply scared the demon off!

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