Sanders himself is guilty of playing into this facile paradigm.
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And progressives, above all, shouldn't fall for this facile fatalism.
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Le Pen has the facile, vile answers to all this.
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Facile "closure" superseded what would have been a more satisfying story.
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Others are facile, unsurprising — self-help adorned with peer-reviewed garlands.
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Less facile and more reticent than her lover and his friends,
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I think maybe conservatives were a little too facile on trade.
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From here on, "A Flying Jatt" goes into ridiculously facile territory.
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Is it facile to reduce Trump versus Clinton down to fashion?
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One is the too facile identification of utopianism with "progressive" causes.
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"With piano I was facile," she told Mademoiselle magazine in 1960.
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The facile answer to this question is that it does not.
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Mais quitter la vie rurale n'est ni facile ni toujours possible.
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This, to put it bluntly, is a facile and boneheaded idea.
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But there was a deeper shrug under this facile taking of offense.
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The effect is to promote "transparency" but of the most facile sort.
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The reality is a bit more complicated than that slightly facile explanation.
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He uses and he does it so, in such a facile way.
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What drew them closer wasn't something facile, but mutual understanding and respect.
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" The New York Times called Dr. King's remarks both "facile" and "slander.
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But Facebook didn't become ubiquitous because it's useless or facile or time-wasting.
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In sum, he told Mr Cole, "your identity thing is just too facile".
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Facile references to "free trade" increasingly have little to do with economic reality.
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To blame cheap steel from China, however, is not only facile, it's lazy.
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It is facile to pin the blame on Islam or Muslim culture alone.
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As a result, some of those moments flirt with inconsequence or facile symbolism.
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What can seem profound in your earbuds can seem facile on the page.
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Many teenagers are more facile with money-transfer apps like Venmo than adults.
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Introducing more firearms on campus is a facile response that can escalate risk.
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Pas facile pour des équipes comme Sochaux, aux ressources relativement limitées, de suivre.
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Maybe, but this explanation feels facile, given the magnitude of the city's problems.
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Ms. Betts refrains from easy, uplifting answers and facile condemnations of organized religion.
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"Dougie Slocombe was facile, enthusiastic, and loved the action of filmmaking," Mr. Spielberg said.
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The unruly masses, mobilized by facile slogans, looked everywhere poised to undermine free institutions.
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And the idea that this can all be boiled down to "sin" feels facile.
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Her argument is facile on its face and its insulting to millions of Americans.
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It would be facile to attribute any one of these events to future shock.
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But his observations are facile despite the complexity the subject matter has to offer.
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People always insult anchors, but you have to be quick and facile, a lot.
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Ils ont le " Allah " trop facile et se trompent en récitant des versets du Coran.
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Of course, it's facile to suggest that all these instances are the same; they aren't.
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But it's a useless, facile observation that maybe we shouldn't waste too much time with.
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Modern Love There is the often facile social media narrative of overcoming adversity in marriage.
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Unless you're particularly facile with Chinese, arranging solo day-trips can be difficult or costly.
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When critics equate "form" with appearance or "content" with plot, they're being facile, he said.
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The first is the most facile: no one cares, so why do anything at all?
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For one thing, they should take advantage of this media attention by dismantling facile analogies.
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And Jean's evidence-based science is no match for the facile hysteria he whips up.
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It's facile to blame our current political climate for this dog-eat-dog mind-set.
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A major problem here is that playing this historical material for laughs feels utterly facile.
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That may seem facile as a reading, but, well … who ever said humanity was subtle?
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It may be too facile to compare it to Watergate given what we know so far.
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If you really ask the question "what's a computer?" honestly, the answers end up being facile.
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For one thing, he is a genuinely accomplished broadcaster, a facile and forceful presence on camera.
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I have spent the last three and a half years warning against facile Trump-Hitler comparisons.
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But the book suffers throughout from a habit of dividing phenomena into catchy but facile dichotomies.
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Drnaso told me that he regrets this early work, which he considers facile in its darkness.
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Justifying the casting choices under the cloak of freedom of expression, he added, was too facile.
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Like his thinking, and, later, his art, van Gogh's biography was neither straightforward nor romantically facile.
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It all moves along at a snappy enough pace, but sometimes feels more facile than insightful.
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The report frequently adopts the facile tactic of comparing or lumping leading liberal politicians and demagogues.
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"La situazione qua non è facile," Regeni aveva scritto ad un amico un mese dopo l'arrivo.
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After the accident, the portrayal deepens, and delivers substantial emotional dividends without yielding to facile sentimentality.
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Berger is such a facile storyteller that people have wondered if the river story is true.
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But these inferences are too facile, because some increases connote good news, while others do not.
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Unlike a great many more facile thinkers, Ms. Didion clearly does not consider them equivalent figures.
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Boetzkes argues that these artists do not offer a predictable or facile critique of consumer culture.
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It is facile to gripe about U.S. hegemony, but hegemony and leadership are not the same thing.
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But of course, diminishing Babitz as the sum of her sexual conquests is both facile and absurd.
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And yet, it feels facile and unsatisfying to spurn the new Nokia effort before it's even begun.
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His real achievement, though, is to scramble such facile distinctions, and a host of others as well.
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"This is going to sound so facile, but she's Mary Poppins," Oswalt said of his new wife.
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But the comparisons to Donald Trump's insurgent 2016 campaign are limited at best and facile at worst.
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Words hold immeasurable weight, which is why we bemoan Donald Trump's mean and facile use of them.
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It's easy -- but overly facile -- to lump all of the Republican retirement decisions into a single explanation.
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No. He was a facile state senator and didn't need my advice in terms of legislative procedure.
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The four songs heard on Thursday are radio-ready: infectious and inviting, but by no means facile.
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I had enjoyed — in a facile, superficial way — the validation this gave me, at least at first.
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And surely, that is where we will finish if we fall for dangerously facile Cold War analogies.
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I waffle back and forth on whether Mr. Robot's diatribes against global capitalism are facile or fascinating.
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And unfortunately for Andromeda, the core conceit of its setting is facile and pernicious—and worse, boring.
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I find Iñárritu hugely overrated — a facile director who creates empty films that have nothing to say.
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These exhibitions have delightfully complicated the exotic, sensuous, and facile image that many Americans have of Brazil.
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But the laziest use is to make facile comparisons between then and now, this person and that.
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So, I think there can somewhat be a facile way of discussing political discourse on an international level.
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More than most shows in the genre, "Homeland" operates in gray areas, avoiding facile solutions or easy answers.
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Students of American ideological history, as well as committed conservatives and liberals, understand how facile this proposition is.
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But it's facile to think that such access will lead people to actually start, and stay on, treatment.
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The feel-bad conclusion is the most open and most facile act of rebellion on Mr. Fish's part.
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The title and premise might sound facile, but there's real emotional heft behind Ayoola's protestations of self-defense.
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Anderson rebukes anyone who takes this as a facile statement of how black voters felt about Hillary Clinton.
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That makes a certain, facile sense: Castro was the longest-ruling dictator the twentieth century saw, after all.
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Nell finds his view to be a relief personally, but intellectually a facile and unendearing failure of imagination.
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" Solo, Mr. Widmann gives his own Fantasy; Ms. Uchida recounts a Schubert impromptu and Mr. Widmann's "Sonatina facile.
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It is too facile to regard the man as a Machiavellian monster of self-interest, she has argued.
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You could call them the "selfie" generation and make some facile analysis about narcissism, but that's too easy.
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Chicago's runoff system — and its facile mano-a-mano narratives — endures mostly because it's the devil we know.
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Zuckerberg's own description of his platform in front of Congress this year projects a facile version of his product.
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Starring Britt Robertson as Amoruso this show looks every bit as facile and boring as the term Girlboss itself.
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Neither pastiche nor homage nor facile sendup, the Visvim show turned out to be something more complex and haunting.
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Facile with languages, he taught himself English by reading American newspapers and studying the captions to New Yorker cartoons.
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En France, tant qu'un homme n'est pas inculpé, il lui est relativement facile de poursuivre son accusatrice en diffamation.
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It's too late and too facile, especially coming at a time when it serves Michael R. Bloomberg's electoral interests.
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Her facile tendency to view historical figures through the lens of her subject matter is, at times, almost farcical.
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Hughes's story of redemption might be somewhat facile, but as a dramatic ending to a performance it worked well.
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Fresh off a meeting with a facile and flaccid U.S. president, how might Putin — ever the opportunist — use this opportunity?
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These paintings integrate his strengths, breaking free of the facile and pedantic elements that mar some of his earlier works.
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During the campaign, Mr Macron hammered this point home, refusing to make facile promises he knew he could not keep.
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She sharpens outsiders' eyes and ears without pandering or diluting the acts themselves or reducing the dialogue to facile takeaways.
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Some of the points it made were pretty facile; some quoted sources, and some were pretty clearly cribbed from articles.
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And though it pains me to say it, all optimism is beginning to look facile and, yes, a little foolish.
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I don't want to be facile about this: Of course Facebook doesn't want killers to live-stream their crimes worldwide.
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It's facile and misleading to suggest that colleges are responsible for what we've seen in the U.S. Senate last week.
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"Such facile comparisons, used in order to demean opponents and gain political capital, should be actively avoided," the statement continued.
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Each individual shot creates a frisson of desolation that resonates far beyond the facile irony suggested by the movie's title.
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Some of the harshest criticisms of Shape have been that its treatment of these issues is ultimately a little facile.
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The most important step is the first, requiring confrontational probing to cut through failure to take responsibility and facile rationalizations.
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Still, it'd be too facile to blame the US's collapse into a mecca of offshore secrecy on the states alone.
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The question, then, is why they would bother to make this obviously facile and unconvincing comparison in the first place.
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But such readings could be facile biographical interpretations which Congo-the-pure-abstractionist might rebut with outraged howls and whoops.
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It would be too facile to characterize Lewis, or the generation he encapsulated, as merely shifting from protest to politics.
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For a lot of reasons -- all of which explain why this comparison is overly facile and just doesn't hold up.
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The movie's depiction of cultural change is tidy to the point of being facile, which isn't to say it's ineffective.
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One factor that might compensate is that 20-somethings are facile at shopping online, said Jill Hanken, director of Enroll!
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The point of view in both the film and the series is multitudinous and nuanced; there's no catharsis via facile conclusions.
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It's facile to say that Cumberbatch -- classically trained, dashing actor on the brink of superstardom -- was born to play a superhero.
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Both in the morning and at night, the star always washes her face to start with the Facile Clinical Clean cleanser.
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At five, you incited jealousy in our lab technicians with your facile knowledge of Godel's incompleteness theorems, but you were leery.
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Like Daubigny, Besnard pursued different directions in his prints and paintings, favoring facile, impressionistic brushwork and bright colors in the latter.
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These questions should cast doubt on any facile response from Barr that he acted purely from a sense of personal duty.
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Stories set to music, which Benjamin had generated so guilelessly as a child, were derided as facile, hidebound, and decadently nostalgic.
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I suspect that is part of the appeal for both: the facile transcendence of placing oneself beyond all powers of persuasion.
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Vidal-Naquet sells this facile notion by keeping his protagonist a borderline cipher — even-tempered, accommodating, seemingly at peace with drifting.
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But its most dramatic spectacle might be the sight of a facile, lazy enterprise being hoist on its own cynical petard.
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It can seem facile to fall back on plant life to express your commitment to sustainability and it is, a bit.
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At the least, Kagan's artificially facile treatment paints state-law federal-question analysis as far more straightforward than it actually is.
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J'étais surpris de ne pas avoir été touché, parce qu'en tant que batteur sur une estrade, je suis une cible facile.
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Rich soon turned against this kind of facile literary transformation, which seemed to exempt her from the violent subordination she expressed.
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This is art that's stripped to the essentials yet doesn't shy away from spectacle — a paradox, but not a facile one.
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It's a particularly facile bit of circular logic: A guy has an NBA head coaching position because he's a good coach.
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The irony has less to do with kitsch or facile consumption than it does with a meaningful and pleasurable expression of appreciation.
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Focal made a choice to prioritize detail and precision in its sound over the more facile thrills of extra servings of bass.
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The questions that were being asked were sometimes facile and other times blatantly sexist in nature—why was she with him alone?
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Khan's election is important because it gives the lie to the facile trope that Europe is being taken over by jihadi Islamists.
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Their own tastes in poetry were somewhat traditional, and they considered the modernist poetry Harris was publishing to be facile and pretentious.
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It's one of the more grotesque incarnations of a particularly facile sort of grievance politics: equating having your feelings hurt with oppression.
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Most people think that it is a facile body, but I think talent really has more to do with 10 character traits.
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He doesn't stoop to facile condemnations of art and its acolytes, and his view of Christian is affectionate as well as punitive.
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When someone commits sexual assault in any situation more complicated than those incredibly basic, facile scenarios, they become fraught with pedantic bullshit.
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The movie isn't ignorant enough to declare a facile, soundbite-friendly solution like a wall to be an answer to the problem.
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Some critics scoff at this work, considering the installations expensive but shallow curiosities, or opportunities for visitors' facile virtue signalling on social media.
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True to their cause, the high-minded theorists of facile externality go out of their way to make their ideas hard to understand.
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In the past year facile externality has started to gain traction (a term that, in itself, demonstrates the centrality of friction to progress).
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Yuskavage, a masterful colorist, makes lush, luminous, intentionally — and delightfully — gauche paintings that unsettle facile notions of misogyny, femininity and the female gaze.
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At a time of trauma, it can seem facile, churlish, even immoral to talk of anything other than the source of that trauma.
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The actor-director apologized for "mov[ing] too quickly," but that's the point of social media, to impulsively post your facile passing thoughts.
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As Drezner notes, some of the marquee names in thought leadership are distinguished by their facile thinking and transparent servility to the wealthy.
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Still, Gessen's critique runs the risk of becoming a facile pox-on-both-your-houses approach that is at odds with the facts.
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And, as facile as it sounds, holding a deep breath while decanting moldy foods into the trash will help minimize any stomach-turning.
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But people are not gods, and I wonder, in this era of facile press-release apologies, whether we need to slow things down.
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But to jump from there to the conclusion that he does not pose a serious threat to democratic institutions strikes me as facile.
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In general the most facile and uninterested articulations of what satire is and of how it works satisfied both parties to the controversy.
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Winterson seems to know she's boxed herself into a facile and jokey situation, and she's decided to shoot herself out of the corner.
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Però con l'arrivo del 20163 quel tipo di immersione culturale, preferito a lungo da arabisti in erba, non era più facile come prima.
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Despite it all, this was simply met with a shrug by enthusiasts who were sick of politicians' facile talking points, and empty rhetoric.
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And recent critics have further diluted his originality with facile comparisons between Brandt's work and film noir, especially the late films of Alfred Hitchcock.
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It shows the artist both as a playful human being, and also demonstrates his work in a medium in which he was less facile.
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The Dutch journalist, Bastiaan Springer put forth the perhaps facile but still sweetly compelling solution of calling everything world music on his radio show.
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This can seem facile for a show whose protagonists are so calculatingly layered; a sacrifice of anyone whose qualms might slow down the steamrollers.
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The facile answer is to work much harder on diversity — not just racial and gender diversity, but also geographic diversity and diversity of thought.
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With that in mind, it looked like the Montrealers were gearing up for a (potentially facile) indie rock evisceration of our internet-addled present.
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That facile and false logic jumps over an obvious question: Shouldn't the government do more to keep highly destructive weapons from the wrong hands?
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Trump looked at America and correctly saw an anxious, uncertain populace that was ripe for facile answers, scapegoats and a narrative of unjust victimization.
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" It added, "Anyone who claims that Prop C is a matter of being 'for the homeless or against them' is selling a facile falsehood.
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The novel may appear at first glance to be a facile "Wake up, yuppies!" parable, but it guides us with assurance toward thornier terrain.
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It miscasts politics as exciting, facile, and instantly gratifying, when every substantive form of action is laborious, time-consuming, and at times grindingly tedious.
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When the subject of discrimination against Christians comes up, it is often dismissed with the facile "some of my best friends are Christian" argument.
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Like Marquis, Roman can sometimes seem like too facile a symbol of the terrifyingly primitive, but he is also never less than effortlessly alive.
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The film "disarms any facile analysis or easy judgment of its characters," A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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Today, the vast majority of contemporary art historians tend to avoid the use of such terminology and consider "genius" to be a facile concept.
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Subversion and political incorrectness are cornerstones of La Movida, and Ceesepe's gory aesthetic was partly a reaction against the facile cartoons he grew up with.
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The Women Who Work videos, and the interviews Trump has given about them, make the sometimes-facile Lean In seem like a weighty sociology text.
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But, Mark Salter, McCain's co-author and longtime confidante, insisted that attributing McCain's McCain-ing of late to his brain cancer diagnosis is overly facile.
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Positing a dialectic between girly vocalist and tough band would be too facile, reliant on a spuriously gendered equivalence between guitar noise and macho defiance.
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It is tempting, yet facile to frame incidents like the one in the Daily Beast article as being the result of a few bad apples.
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It's overly facile to say that the failure of May's Brexit plan and the current US government shutdown are even close to the same thing.
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Forsythe challenges the reader to mature beyond facile arguments about gun control and bullying if we want to stop classrooms from increasingly becoming killing fields.
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It's easy to conclude that Beat culture, like other countercultures that followed, has been co-opted by a mercenary society — easy and a bit facile.
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It's also potentially the strongest argument Democrats have against the GOP's facile attempts to turn the 2020 election into a contest between socialism and capitalism.
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And spend your social media time spreading the word about these things, rather than spreading facile outrage or arguing futilely (at best) with Trump supporters.
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Many critics found it grotesque and facile, but I have always loved it for its pure abjection, and its ability to communicate interiority through inventory.
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Stressing the formal similarities among the three works seems like a facile comparison that ignores the unique geographies and time periods in which they worked.
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Thus, a genuine examination of the relevant history here not only undermines Nunes's facile analogy, but also sets up the foundation for another impeachable offense.
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Mr. Capra's nice people are charming, his small town is a quite beguiling place and his pattern for solving problems is most optimistic and facile.
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Wallace doesn't simply set a scene and novelize his characters into facile life; rather, he makes an almost metaphysical commitment to see reality through their eyes.
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It is this that is the show's greatest strength; Ms Anderson's work gains especial value as it rids Marley of any facile legend or militant status.
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" Cohen went on to qualify these statements, though: "It's facile to think that just confronting death automatically leads to growth and there's no downside to it.
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The rape of First Lady Mellie Grant by her father-in-law Jerry in "Scandal", an American political drama, was also depicted in a facile manner.
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The album is overtly transgressive (and therefore memorable), while "Saturday Night Fever" has been framed as a prefab totem of a facile culture (and thus forgettable).
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The facile dodge would be to say "neither," since I live in a reliably Democratic northeastern state where my vote would never be the deciding ballot.
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Now it's far easier to accept and even join a narrative that is already established for your generation; the majority tends to gravitate towards the facile.
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The disciplinary fetish and political pretenses and facile accountability theater are the default obsessions of a certain type of sour old man, and long have been.
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The juxtaposition of holy music and unholy lyrics might seem too facile by half; it's a treatment long applied by giggly school children to church hymns.
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The hotel is home to the two-Michelin-starred Facile, whose lovely dining room, set inside a glassed-in atrium, also doubles as the breakfast room.
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Of all the virtues, surely stoicism, decency and forgiveness rate near the top — particularly in a culture of facile complaint, indecent vanity and vindictive piling-on.
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And a few topical jokes and moments of meta-reference (the Son's own son is a dramatist, writing a play about his grandmother) are irritatingly facile.
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Meanwhile, feminism struggles to find norms that check this kind of behavior, swinging between a facile sex-positivity and illiberal attempts to police the hookup scene.
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Still, if Mr. Martin's take on grief is facile, the movie overall is a pleasant trip, and Dean's doodles — by Mr. Martin himself — are a treat.
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The Point: It's both facile and selfish to assume that whatever is happening to you -- or us -- is something that has never before happened in history.
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They belong to the New England intellectual tradition of looking for signs and portents in thickets of happenstance, but they usually stop short of facile meaning.
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It can feel facile, this ostensible shortcut to empathy, and requires a certain authority to prevent the whole enterprise from tipping into implausibility or soppy sentimentality.
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These are real economic challenges that require real economic policies, and we shouldn't be facile and pretend there aren't economic costs no matter what we do.
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As with Donald Rumsfeld in "The Unknown Known," Morris never really cracks his subject, and perhaps it's facile to deem the project worthwhile in spite of that.
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At the same time, he later also called it "too facile" to suggest that all opposition to same-sex couples' marriages should be considered anti-gay discrimination.
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Which is why it's far too facile to treat women abusing men and boys as stemming from the exact same place as men abusing women and girls.
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These facile crowd-pleasers are understandably attractive to festival programmers, like FIAF and the many others at which Bel has performed internationally, but they have no bite.
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" A few days later, in The New York Daily News, he argued, "The right lesson of Watergate: Forget facile Trump-Nixon parallels — and get the damn evidence.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy appeared to recognize this during the oral arguments, labeling as "facile" the ACLU's claim that Jack discriminates based on the "identity" of his customers.
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To date, most questions have focused on three key areas: Although this latest debate is just underway, a consensus of fast (and sometimes facile) answers has emerged.
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I don't presume that these challenges are facile to solve, but hopefully our conversation helps let patients know that their happiness matters as much as their cholesterol.
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But the comparison has always been a facile one, and the White House and its surrogates have not been able to prove any wrongdoing by their counterparts.
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It's slightly facile to claim that weapon customization is merely a clever bit of marketing cribbed from the gun industry, but the similarities are hard to ignore.
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The "Lehman Trilogy" has in its soul a critique of these imbalances, but its criticisms are facile and anodyne enough to offend no one benefiting from them.
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King," the piece resolved, "makes too facile a connection between the speeding up of the war in Vietnam and the slowing down of the war against poverty.
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It is invigorating and irritating, astute and facile, rigorous and flippant, fair-minded and score-settling, practical and hyperbolic, and maybe a dozen other neurotically contradictory things.
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In facile prose and with airtight reporting, Mr. Peirce found unlikely drama and fascinating detail in government process — the steps local leaders take to produce showcase projects.
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She's an unambiguous captive, trapped by sex and class, yet the viciousness that her liberation awakens — as carnal lust slips into bloodlust — precludes a facile redemptive reading.
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"This facile assumption that more antitrust means greater equality and wealth is just way overbroad," wrote Daniel Crane, an expert on antitrust law at the University of Michigan.
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As Cold War historian Arne Westad has pointed out, thinking about the "new Cold War" through the lens of the actual Cold War is both facile and dangerous.
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The analogy between creative writing and fertility is not entirely facile: The story of I.V.F. is essentially a female story, and it requires women writers to tell it.
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The broad-strokes inferences of a facile transference of historical meaning into cultural value are obviously both political and artistic; in both contexts their implications are pretty toxic.
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It is, rather, to expose the facile thinking that is often brought to bear on this subject when the people committing suicide are old, or sick, or infirm.
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Mr. Stevens, who is no stranger to nostalgia, having served as a producer and writer of the television series "The Wonder Years," avoids facile psychology and winking dialogue.
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The facile answer is to cite forces beyond French control: bureaucracy in Brussels; the currency straitjacket of the euro; the European Central Bank; the dark winds of globalization.
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Macron, who came from nowhere in the space of a year at the head of a new political movement, did not make facile promises or make up stories.
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Perhaps this is naïve, but his entry could encourage a substantive argument about progressive priorities, one that transcends facile theater criticism, ideological purity tests or horse-race handicapping.
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The politics of the megaphone – the appeal of shrill rhetoric, oversimplification, prophetic fantasy, and facile name-calling – appealed to constituencies hungry for solutions, however simplistic, strident, or supposedly 'final'.
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The gallery's location in the living room and kitchen of a townhouse will undoubtedly only further blur facile distinctions between functional objects and those intended solely for aesthetic contemplation.
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Like the just-as-bad Only God Forgives, Refn's offensive-if-it-weren't-so-facile-and-irritating Drive followup, The Neon Demon is a faceplant into the deep end.
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It might be facile to assert that if British voters could vote to leave the European Union, then American voters could vote to put Trump in the Oval Office.
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Faced with legitimate critiques, Mr Sanders will need to do better than repeat the facile claim that his critics are just unable to see beyond their moneyed, mainstream perspectives.
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In addition to sharing their flimsy case for being unsullied by guilt by political association, Trump and Clinton have in common a facile efficiency for reworking their political positions.
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I partiti di sinistra hanno dedicato alcune righe dei loro programmi alle proposte per abbassare il divario salariale e permettere una più facile conciliazione tra lavoro e vita familiare.
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For millions of young fans, that mentality — that mainstream sports media presents a facile master narrative that is to be warred with at all times — became a defining principle.
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The board revised the exam to eliminate more facile multiple-choice questions and permitted students to use calculators, although it stopped short of requiring essays, as some had recommended.
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Garner: The facile answer is that language is changing more rapidly because of the internet and because usage spreads more quickly, people are exposed to new terms, new usages.
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HBO built its reputation by gussying up genres that are often derided as facile or empty, applying just enough prestige to make them worthy of discussion at dinner parties.
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This is to say nothing of all of the facile, hollow antihero dramas that've been on the air for a while, like Showtime's Ray Donovan and Netflix's House of Cards.
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The problem is that the term "populist" has become a catchall so broad that the only common thread it contains is the distaste for it felt by its facile users.
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Those of a populist mind-set attack so-called elitist art forms as boring; those of an elitist mind-set attack so-called populist art forms as facile and unworthy.
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Each has his supporters, and his all-too-human — which is to say, somewhat facile — hidden flaws, turning the election into a marathon of negotiating, horse trading and odds making.
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At first, I listen to the previous day's news in français facile , following along with the transcript that RFI posts on the Internet, for learners around the world, every afternoon.
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In the wake of the mayhem last weekend, which resulted in the death of an innocent woman, tech companies seem to be realizing the inadequacy of their facile defenses from critics.
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While statements from those companies have insisted that the technology provided does not deal specifically with family separations, many view the arrangement as unsavory, and that line of justification as facile.
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But that would be facile, and would also mean that Michelle had been in a standard slasher movie, where arbitrarily bad things happen to random people, and nothing much is learned.
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Elizabeth is building the so-called second layer on top of the block chain for Bitcoin, the user interface that will allow for transactions to be more facile for the masses.
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It's the steady drumbeat of visual and spoken references to Harlem's history and culture, which depending on your taste can come off as an inspiring refrain or as facile name-dropping.
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They share the facile assumption that policymakers and regulators are pledged nobly to the national interest or the common good, while corporate boards and investors are selfishly focused on profit alone.
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Crown molding, curtains, and wallpaper serve as facile symbols of domesticity, though these latter two elements, interestingly, host a collection of decorative patterns by a relatively more international crop of artists.
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The core problem with the past half-century of failed peacemaking efforts has been the facile assumption that meeting the need for two states would ultimately fulfill the requirement for security.
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The idea that Elizabeth Warren's supporters would automatically move to Sanders were she to drop out, or that Joe Biden's supporters would eagerly line up behind Pete and Amy, is facile.
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A news article in The Morning Call, the hometown paper of Senator Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, suggested his office was being facile with the facts about past nominations during election years.
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There is some power in that escapism, in turning off your brain and getting away, but the beauty of Environments is that its construction also illustrates how facile that whole endeavor is.
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He is also likely to benefit in the eyes of some Democratic base voters from the (overly facile) comparison to the last charismatic African-American speaker in national politics: Barack Obama. 2.
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Goldstein, a longtime staff writer for The Washington Post who was part of a reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002, opts for complexity over facile explanations and easy polemics.
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But that revelation is really just confirmation of Mr. Bonello's shallow cynicism, his facile conviction that he has built a trap for the audience's conscience rather than a useless, self-consuming artifact.
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" Another, Adam, a media organizer interviewed by Pearlman in Denmark, debunks facile Western talk about ancient religious divisions in Syria: "Our children are in prison ... and you're talking about Shia and Sunnis?
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One of the cleverest aspects of the novel is how it resists the facile linear form of revelation; it backs up toward insights, runs away from them, sifts through them again, obsesses.
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Are Black Mirror's creators implying that they also are emotionally shattered people battling mental illness, or alternately that Black Mirror is facile, unsatisfying 0/5 art because it was created by sane people?
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The national Democratic Party has long been in the grip of those who assume that following along Wall Street — with minor quibbles and facile populist rhetoric — is the pathway to the White House.
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STEVEN MORRIS MT. PLEASANT, S.C. * Get On Up To the Editor: I was shocked by Rick Moody's facile review of James McBride's "Kill 'Em and Leave" (April 3), a book about James Brown.
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It is of course too facile to say that the U.S. is becoming a Middle Eastern country: We are thankfully not anywhere near the levels of violent hatred that characterize Iraq or Syria.
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"Biographers broke into the house and rearranged the furniture to their liking," she writes, objecting to the kind of facile-seeming connections made by literary scholars between an author's life and her writing.
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Once, curators and others feared that the chaotic collision of global cultures (accelerated by the accessibility of the internet) would result in bland homogeneity or a facile mash-up of East and West.
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But the second half of Costner's comments point to a truth he — and many others — are reticent to admit: Westerns, even the most facile and generic, have always been political, and Yellowstone is too.
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Belittling, totalising comments about a people based on their skin colour is still a facile, unhelpfully tribal and meaninglessly antagonistic practice, even if a shameful history of systemic oppression does not lurk behind it.
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"Anyone who claims that Prop C is a matter of being 'for the homeless or against them' is selling a facile falsehood," Stripe CEO Patrick Collison wrote in a blog post earlier this month.
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And even as life online allows for the possibility of less facile first impressions, people are also frequently flattened into lists of physical stats, hobbies, and profile pics, especially when it comes to dating.
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This is where the phenomenon of calling a young player the 'new' someone else becomes uncomfortable, in that it often seems to be based on little more than facile racial criteria and perceived ethnicity.
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And if, in between the facile cultural commentary, dismissive portrayals of progressive voters, and starchy narrative arcs, I can find something resembling compassion, I'll hold onto it — just like I did twenty years ago.
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In 1964, the results—which today impress me as more facile than felt—made him the first American to win the top prize at the Venice Biennale, and, at thirty-nine, the youngest artist.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment has burrowed its way into the culture, inspiring an epiphany-industrial complex that deploys social science research in support of facile claims about human nature, public policy, and interpersonal relationships.
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"The American dream has been taken away from us," Jane complains; but the movie is less concerned with facile politics than with hopelessness, with a location that engulfs the rootless and erases the orphaned.
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It would be facile to say that 21973 was a simpler time (whether for video games or for the world), but I think it is fair to say that for many, it seemed simpler.
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Even when they do manage to deal with issues, positive policy proposals are presented in a facile manner, frequently with untruths and a complete unwillingness to face up to the likelihood of success versus failure.
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While it's probably facile to note that Mr. Truman seems to be orchestrating the entrance to Nix the way an editor would map out the cover of a magazine, the comparison is difficult to resist.
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If this makes it sound like Things to Come is the foreign art-house equivalent of a Cathy comic strip, there's blessedly nothing facile or cutesy about the film's lament about the impermanence of everything.
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Speaking of which... - Making an issue out of something as facile as not loving the tone of a publication you think is dumb and reductive is uh kinda counter-productive in this moment in media.
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Rather, it is more of a suggestion that words really do matter, and that some issues — the complexities of modern war, for example — simply don't always lend themselves to bumper-sticker quotes or facile clichés.
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There is not really an experience to be had with this piece, for reasons having nothing to do with representation or abstraction: it is a facile conceptual maneuver that disappears right after the conceit registers.
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I loathe the facile designation of the immigrant or outsider as the source of national woes, a form of scapegoating with a terrible history in Europe and now on vivid display in Donald Trump's America.
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"Is the choice of a writer-protagonist in a bildungsroman too facile and predictable?" a professor asks in the book's opening pages, in the midst of a brutal critique of the narrator's first workshop submission.
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Even if these are facile relationships with (potentially invented) people, they're still tendrils anchoring the Keeper to a new life and job, with folks depending on them for help and to process the town's dead.
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In "Four Red Hearts" (1973), we see the kind of art that earned him a nod from critics in the Pattern and Decoration crowd (although connections between Williams and any such movement are, at best, facile).
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It's almost too facile, the symbolism in that: She isn't particularly important to those around her, disappears into the background, and is fundamentally alone, so she has no one to call her by her first name.
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As the Neil Armstrong of First Man might put it, good art often takes us out of our everyday, self-centered cluelessness, our facile assumptions about the world and about other people, and changes our perspective.
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Amid the facile circulation of untruths, what will happen to our society's commitment to the authority of facts, of the often laborious accumulation of empirical evidence, and of the scrupulously attained findings of humanists and scientists?
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" In came voguish young stars like Candice Bergen, who had written to Peck offering to recruit fresh talent and griping that "most members are anachronisms clogging the works of an incredibly facile mechanism called motion pictures.
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Not every exploration pays off, especially on the human side, like a subplot about "synthies" — teenagers who "identify" as robots — which falls flat even if you don't read it as a facile analogy for transgender issues.
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At a time of facile anti-Zionism spilling sometimes into outright anti-Semitism, Schama has made an eloquent and a far-reaching case for why Jews needed a small piece of earth they could call home.
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But its understanding of all of those things is facile — literally most of it can be boiled down to, "This is ridiculous" — and the specters it exhumes lurch onto screen like the ghosts of Christmas past.
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While he criticizes foreign correspondents for their facile coverage of China, his dispatches from Tibet and Xinjiang, vast lands on the edge of the Chinese Empire, also rely on quick anecdotes to fill out a larger truth.
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Highly recommended reading: This 2018 New Yorker profile of Singer and Elliott, which should help shoot down facile theories — which you can find on Twitter — about Singer, a prominent Republican donor, going after Twitter for political reasons.
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To critique our inheritance from modernism in art generally and the art world's facile positioning of white, European men as dominant is inherently antithetical to this notion, making Hinge Pictures a fitting realization of Duchamp's philosophical challenge.
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Instead of talking and writing about them as selfie deaths, a facile and judgment-laden category, we can talk about them as they are: Painful, shocking tragedies that pulled two bright young women from our world too soon.
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Wells had thus far possessed a kind of facile "I'm always one step ahead of you" shrewdness as she uncovered one piece of perfect evidence per episode; like with Jack Bauer, it was part mesmerizing and part predictable.
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I have no idea if Georgetown Prep was anything like that, but the facile stereotype of "white privilege" that keeps cropping up in discussions of Kavanaugh's background is yet another ugly tactic in the battle to defeat him.
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The temptation to draw facile connections is ever-present in medical research, and the most valuable current work on these conditions is a matter not of grand unified theories but of a multiplicity of very fine-grained observations.
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We can view Gadd's imagery as a repackaging of nature, as Scarpa recommended, but it also can be something else — anything else — without feeling arbitrary or facile, which is a testament to the artist's emotional conviction and material sensitivity.
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The facile "It's either war or talks" argument perilously preempts the probability that protracted negotiations between the two sides only begets a greater calamity, as Pyongyang buys time and money with which to perfect its nuclear and missile capabilities.
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Fortunately, Claire North — also known as the middle-grade and young adult writer Catherine Webb and the satirical urban fantasy writer Kate Griffin — has established a reputation for tense, dense, science fiction/fantasy-inflected thrillers that defy facile expectations.
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Barry is pulled in one direction by Monroe Fuches, a facile blowhard who books Barry's hits and works every angle to keep him killing, and by NoHo Hank, a timid, malaprop-prone Chechen mobster besotted with Barry's lethal skills.
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His Norman is fidgety but bold and defiant — charismatic, but sometimes a dirtbag, the kind of guy your dad would hate, which would only make you like him more until he let you down and offered another facile excuse.
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The soloist Erica Pereira is another who, after years of looking merely facile, has started to come into her own (in her case, since the fall): A heightening of stylistic rigor has helped her to display an engaging sweetness.
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Robert Mueller bears some blame here; by accepting written responses from Trump rather than fighting for an in-person interview or grand jury testimony, Mueller left the door wide open for this facile dodge by Trump and his attorneys.
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The facile response to this is to tell people to get off the internet, but that's not a realistic recommendation, and it fails to consider the benefits of connection and empathy that are the upside of all this sharing.
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The film has an amazing running gag about the insidious, facile urge to link basketball to slavery, which is played for laughs but is always grounded in Bill Duke's incredible performance as a grouchy and demanding South Bronx basketball coach.
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"The politics of the megaphone—the appeal of shrill rhetoric, oversimplification, prophetic fantasy, and facile name-calling—appealed to constituencies hungry for solutions," writes Mr Fernández-Armesto, a British historian who teaches at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
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Yet just as too much of a good thing (travel, say) can yield a bad (congestion), so excessive ease in transactions can generate costs, known in the jargon as a "facile externality", such that less efficiency would actually be more efficient.
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But white, straight, middle-class people, which is to say, the dominant population of the Pacific Northwest, do not deal with the embodied, quotidian experience of bigotry, which is why our solutions are often so facile, so sincere, so embarrassing.
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Most of them don't, and characters like Zack's love interest Lex, a collection of cheap fantasy traits who only serves to ease his path and flatter his ego, could just as readily be cut or expanded into something less embarrassingly facile.
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"Make no mistake - the facile, breezy discussion on nationalization under way on the hard left of the UK's political spectrum is just as wrong-headed as the Brexit fantasy world inhabited by some on the hard right," he told the conference.
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We have made a point in covering Los Angeles, as I know you have in Chicago, not to sort of resort to the kind of facile cliché stereotypes of Southern California that are so easy to do (celebrity, empty-headedness, smog).
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Jacobs's spring collection, for example, was a globalized, turbaned bricolage of different eras and locales, eluding facile categorization — an eccentric ancient-modern tribe beyond identification, a vision of a nativeless world, with a single culture created from the flotsam of many.
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But with facile plotting — you could fashion a pretty deadly drinking game out of all the scenes in which someone gets knocked out, or is conveniently left for dead — and humdrum action, the lack of depth or dimension becomes fatal.
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The movie adheres to that template, delivering the usual scoundrels (Finn Wittrock as a lover), courtiers (Jessie Buckley as a minder) and facile psychology, sometimes with a #MeToo spin, most overtly in the scene of Mayer touching the young Judy's chest.
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Unlike Pollak and Shapiro, he wasn't particularly fast or facile as a writer, but he was widely regarded as the best on staff at selecting which stories would resonate with readers, and he had a knack for punchy, half-comic headlines.
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The most telling critique of the claims of social conservatives is that their single-minded focus on the destructive forces of liberalism offers a facile (and erroneous) answer to developments that do not fit simple categories of good and evil.
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It didn't on ye—his derisory album from last year on which mental health and family life were anchoring themes—and it doesn't on the facile Jesus Is King, a patchy, sometimes remarkable, mostly unexceptional interpretation of the black gospel tradition.
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They are so superb that they have made it easy for civilian officials to take a facile and witless approach to foreign policy, because they think they can always send in our reliable boys and girls to salvage the situation.
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Once Democrats stop making facile comparisons between Sanders and Trump and start drawing the many real and devastating contrasts between the two, this unpolished old socialist really could not just win the White House back but fire up a durable movement.
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Brace yourself for more facile debates when the most we can learn about a candidate's merit is the ability to remember and deliver a poll-tested sound bite and how well a media celebrity can preen for a national audience.
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The safety pin is now at the center of a national conversation about hate crimes, prompting the discussion about the facile shallowness of white men and women and what good comes out of the backlash against such gestures of solidarity.
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Kristol said congressional Republicans and commentators made a "big mistake" in believing the "facile" notion that the last eight years of legislation could be easily undone and replaced with conservative policies that would then be signed into law by a Republican president.
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Long before Christopher Wool's facile word paintings (like "Hole," from 27, which reads "HOLE IN YOUR HEAD") started fetching small fortunes, Vautier made word paintings (often impertinent tautologies) renowned for simply affirming life, like "Le bon lait" ("The Good Milk," 215/22017).
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In the up-close-and-personal clip, dermaplaning virgin Nina heads to Facile Dermatology Boutique in West Hollywood, where she meets medical esthetician Alexa Yontz to experience a full-service dermaplane facial for the first time — and we get a front-row seat.
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And, when gaming out how the court would rule on even these incremental measures, it may be too facile to simply look at the five conservative justices and assume they will automatically vote for anything that chips away at the abortion law.
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Understanding and going long or short on this company requires that we drop the facile analogies (aka it's Starbucks!), understand the context of startup growth in China, and take a (rare) bet on a high-flying growth company in the public markets.
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Besides appearing to be derivative of the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye's sculpture, works like these allude to topics of tremendous substance — the checkered history of religious institutions, for example — but in a facile, jocular mood that robs them of any very troubling meaning.
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A facile reading of the current production of "Three Tall Women" would be that Albee was a misogynist, but that would be reductive: what if the person you were supposed to love the most was detestable, and happened to be a woman?
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Since Hollywood is often accused of being "out of touch" with real Americans, presumably due to many celebrities' leftward bent, the results of the poll are revealing: The situation, it seems, is more complicated than the more facile Hollywood condemnations might imply.
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In the end Nothomb's writing is fablelike, so that when the threads of the story converge into a morality tale, as those who have suffered and been wronged find revenge and solace in one another, it's not so surprising, if a little facile.
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The difference is that the French label — which was founded in 1937 when two journalists published "La Route Facile," a guide for truckers that highlighted restaurants with good cheap eats and useful facilities — had a blue-collar, rather than middle-class family, allure.
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For employees, Twitter suffers from the same systemic issue that many Silicon Valley firms have and refuse to fix, which is to say it's a glut of same-thinking white dudes running everything with no shortage of facile deflections over this sad state of affairs.
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It is true that racism persists in America, but for a middle-aged man raised in the small-town South, as Mr Arnade was, to say that race relations today are "just the same ol' thing, dressed up differently" is both facile and inaccurate.
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WATCH: All The Criticism Taylor Swift Is Slamming In 'Look What You Made Me Do' Music Video A lot of facile prerelease comparisons have already been made to Beyoncé's Lemonade, because apparently two female superstars can't make confessional albums without a running social-media scorecard.
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Though handsome cinematography and facile performances lend intrigue to the West Wing writer/director's patronizing adaptation of Molly Bloom's tell-enough, his questionable personal relationship to the real events depicted make a Zero Dark Thirty of yet another honest-to-greatness performance by Chastain.
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And he obviously hopes that "people on trips, people who aren't taking trips, people who like trips and people who don't like trips" are all potential readers of facile, funny, short-chaptered books full of gags, anecdotes, local color and touches of the cheerfully bizarre.
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Some of Ms. Ushpiz's methods are a little questionable — I was bothered by the way she slipped artificial, ambient sound into silent footage — but she shows impressive coherence and fair-mindedness in her approach to Arendt, succumbing neither to hagiography nor to facile skepticism.
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What results is an affirmation of both the fashion industry as a pit of facile, well-accessorized vipers and the fascination that de La Falaise engendered, due not only to her role as haute gamine but to her indifference to the whole glittering shebang.
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Her soprano has a bright bloom, and she too brings Natasha's inner turmoil — her love for Andrey, her insecurity, her vulnerability to the facile charms of Anatole — to moving life, so that in this case we are the ones trembling at her loss of innocence.
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" And never-Trumper New York Times columnist Bret Stephens decried "the facile stereotype of 'white privilege' that keeps cropping up in discussions of Kavanaugh's background," and said he was "grateful that, in Trump, at least one big bully was willing to stand up to others.
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What distinguishes it from becoming a facile, postmodern gesture is Faustine's use of a bright, cadmium red photographic overlay that bisects the photograph horizontally, obscuring the lower bodies of the men on foot and the legs of Roosevelt's horse, severing them from the pedestal.
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Their concerns and interests as farmers, students, laborers, or teachers were dissolved into a political project of "race relations"—which, as historian Michael R. West has noted, displaced consideration of blacks' citizenship rights in favor of the facile question of how the "races" interacted.
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At first it works beautifully; Taylor and her husband are just accessible and open enough that soon Ingrid is having dinner at their house, road-tripping with her new BFF, and barely containing her twisted desire as Taylor heaps her with facile praise and affection.
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Some in the French sports media have invoked Tony Parker, the French point guard for the San Antonio Spurs, as a model — a facile comparison, in the same way that every good, young soccer midfielder in France is prematurely anointed the next Zinedine Zidane.
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But then it turned out that she'd built up all those themes partly in order to paint radical resistance in the absolute worst light possible — and she mapped each of her ships onto the "right" and the "wrong" side of that facile political discourse.
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Analogies between Sanders and Donald Trump are often facile and misleading, but one genuine point of comparison is that both candidates appeal to voters who feel betrayed by party leaders and who perceive the country to be in a politically induced state of decline.
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What gets lost in the fight to deem the safety pin movement good or bad, or to write it off as a facile white crutch, is that a lot of people in this country are feeling a very real sense of helplessness right now.
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Known in the Senate for his allergy to compromise, and for generating few policy initiatives of consequence, Mr. Sanders offered prescriptions that too often consisted of facile calls for "revolution," for feel-good but economically unsustainable proposals for universal health care and free tuition to public colleges.
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Whereas Briggs offers lyrical, insightful and contrapuntally crafted meditations on the art of translation — intercut with responses to an impressive range of writers, thinkers and theorists, most notably Roland Barthes — Moser reduces her book to a facile "argument" that he then attacks narrowly and single-mindedly.
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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 circle.
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We believe there is a confluence of factors — increasing attention to quality-of-life, the demand for personalized therapies, the growing need for lean clinical trials — that the group or company that becomes facile at measuring, interpreting and ultimately creating quality-of-life metrics will reap enormous financial benefits.
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On the surface, the "North/South attitude"—as he called it, which informs his long-in-the-works book, The North and South of You—may seem a suggestion of division, or at least a facile distinction, but Hassell has always made an effort to present the idea holistically.
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Although I walked into to this challenging and unconventional exhibition, as I mentioned above, thinking that the apple didn't fall far from the tree, it would be facile to say that I left it with the conclusion that the works of Pierre-Auguste and Jean were apples and oranges.
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But it is simply not the case, as Mr. Kushner claims, that "discrimination, harassment and intimidation of Jewish students has become commonplace" on college campuses, and it is far too facile to conclude, as he apparently does, that criticism of Israel should so readily trigger Title VI enforcement.
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The grace with which the "La La Land" producers (Jordan Horowitz, in particular) handled the handoff — and the poise with which Mr. Jenkins and his producer, Adele Romanski, received the belated honor for "Moonlight" — should quell the facile polarization that followed the two movies throughout the awards season.
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To the Editor: Lori Szala gives the facile and misleading impression that if only every woman with an unintended pregnancy had ample counseling and a multitude of services — neither of which is likely to happen in the foreseeable future — some vast majority of women would choose to give birth.
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Though there was some of their signature torqued reality on the runway, in the form of extra-long belts, oversize sleeves, "Not Your President" sloganeering, and layering, it was so pointedly banal that it seemed less like a collection and more like a piece of somewhat facile performance art.
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Hopefully Trump's appointees, like those of his predecessors, will understand that their role is not to fulfill facile campaign slogans, but to be thoughtful jurists who apply the law faithfully to the Constitution, in a manner that fully protects the rights of an accused and actually serves justice.
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It will request that Congress extend it some sort of bankruptcy protection and it will present Congress with a facile choice: Does it want to protect the evil vulture funds from Wall Street that lent it money or the hardworking state employees who just want the pension promised to them?
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Miss America Scraps Swimsuits, Making Strides to Reshape Image" (front page, June 6): Your article ranges from the Miss America pageant's decades-long lack of responsiveness to the central issues of evaluating women in a cattle call, to its facile attribution of this "victory" to #MeToo.
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And it's easy to see why Trump, assisted by a core team of Priebus, Bannon, and Jared Kushner — none of whom have any experience working in government or running a successful publicly traded company — would come up with this facile and deeply flawed analogy between the two kinds of undertakings.
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The response to that piece from some here in Cairo was vehement — friends who have struggled with similar issues and threats around their sexual identities suggested that it felt facile, scratching the surface of something but not getting to the core of what it means to be gay in Egypt.
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As a black, literature-loving kid, growing up in an all-white neighborhood, and one that became increasingly difficult for me when I entered middle and high school in the 73s, he was a lifesaver, an emblem of individualism who seemed able to transcend his industry's facile commercialism and easily disposable style.
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You could hear it in the scolding tone of the questions and in the stammering, stunted replies of the general counsels (and acting general counsels, in Twitter's case), rendering almost every question from lawmakers facile in the eyes of the tech companies and almost every response inadequate in the eyes of the lawmakers.
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Here, in "The Last Samurai," the narrator tells us about the single sexual encounter she had with a British travel writer she derisively nicknames Liberace (because his prose style is facile and treacly): No sooner were Liberace and I in his bed without our clothes than I realised how stupid I had been.
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Sure, I guess the song is about a guy who "grins like the devil" and is ostensibly dangerous (in the most facile sense of the word), but the beauty of "Cruel Summer" is in letting the love story blur into the distance and just enjoying the breeziness of the tune (preferably outside).
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But what would come to gall Wills even more than Baldwin was that his boss Buckley not only lifted from his piece (before it was published) for one of his own columns but also distorted Wills's honest reckoning with Baldwin in the interest of his own, more facile and racialist prong of attack.
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This is a phenomenon that really took hold in the late '90s and early aughts, fueled by TV personalities like Nancy Grace, cable's queen of facile moral outrage, in which the disappearances of young white women like Chandra Levy and Natalee Holloway captured a disproportionate amount of the attention of cable news and the media.
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Characters snort cocaine in dance clubs; have meaningless sex; order silly-sounding, elaborately named fusion dishes at overpriced restaurants; and recite designer clothing labels (in the facile, amusing number "You Are What You Wear") as if they were holy mantras, and make fun of those who are less of-the-minute than they are.
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But I saw how facile it could seem, checking off a list of things you saw on TV. I posed some version of this to Mr. Ruffins, who acknowledged that many people who come to his bar do so because they saw it or him on "Treme," rather than because they are devoted jazz fans.
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And F Is for Family doesn't pretend its "politically incorrect" elements depict the world as it really is, or something facile like that; rather, it focuses on the ways that Frank and guys like him created a whole system designed to flatter themselves into believing they are — or at least were — the kings of the world.
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It was a facile argument—you could go to a costume party dressed as a plane crashing into a building and say it's not meant to be 9/11, even though everyone can see it—but it all feels as if Gervais is out to destroy his own medium because he's the only one who can.
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That sense of inequity persisted throughout the night, as most of the speeches made by men veered away from being remotely political—take Ewan McGregor's acceptance speech for Fargo, for instance, or Sam Rockwell's for Three Billboards—and The Greatest Showman, a facile offense in a progressive work's clothing, took home the prize for Best Original Song.
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I took a last look at the looming apparition of the bus, the great brown sarcophagus of the American highway, and was momentarily taken by the facile charm of its standing as a metaphor for life itself: an incomprehensible and futile journey, in a vast coffin-shaped recreational vehicle, out of one nowhere into some other.
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The egregiousness of the gold leaf and the inscription's ambition to morph the fair into a circle of Hell seemed intended to tweak and not offend, allowing its targets to feel as if they are in on the joke, and off the hook — a facile and toothless form of entertainment that, like membership on a museum board, normalizes excess and abuse.
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What we're left with is just more of the same hocus pocus that has animated so much of the discourse around feminism this year, a facile pitch to the effect of look at this famous woman and her opportunities, you can get this, too, if you just lean in hard enough—and oh, please don't look at our company's political donation disclosures.
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Mr. Trump is seen as less favorably disposed toward the concentration of power among the handful of large companies that dominate the internet, including Facebook, Google and Amazon, said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, an online real estate firm "I think Donald Trump may be facile with Twitter but mostly feels hostility towards these companies and their size," Mr. Kelman said.
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JAPANESE ANXIETY OVER modernity is a cliché of cultural studies, and the fact that Japan in the Meiji period — roughly 1868 to 1912 — resembled Western Europe in this regard is too facile an explanation for its various forms of Modernism: There is simply no comparison between France or England and a country as isolated as Japan experiencing the onrush of capitalist industrialization.
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Even if current ancient and early medieval historians such as Guy Halsall, Dame Averil Cameron, Peter Brown, Christopher Wickham, and Kristina Sessa, have all argued against Gibbon and the narrative of decline, the attractiveness of the facile account of "barbarian hordes" sacking Rome and bringing about the downfall of a civilization persists for everyone from conservative historian Niall Ferguson to Breitbart News.
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Michael Callahan reviewed it (alongside two other books about fashion) and applauded the decision to make it an oral history: "What results is an affirmation of both the fashion industry as a pit of facile, well-accessorized vipers and the fascination that de La Falaise engendered, due not only to her role as haute gamine but to her indifference to the whole glittering shebang."
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Friendship Circle is a laudable organization, with a diverse array of programming that includes culinary arts and work training, in addition the Soul Studio art programs — and it would be facile to pretend that the dedication of founder and director Bassie Shemtov and the expertise of the corps of working artists that support Soul Studio members did not play a huge part in the development of Mirror, Mirror.
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Simler and Hanson build upon a number of research advances, such as Jonathan Haidt's work on the righteous mind and Robert Trivers work on evolutionary psychology to undergird their thesis in the first few chapters, and then they apply that thesis to a series of other fields (ten, in fact) in relatively brief and facile chapters to describe how the elephant in the brain affects us in every sphere of human activity.
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And yet, writer-director Martin McDonagh's mordantly funny and, yes, impeccably acted story of an embittered mother (Frances McDormand, a SAG winner last night for best lead actress in a motion picture) who goes to any length in pursuit of justice for the rape and murder of her daughter, has in recent weeks collected some less-than-flattering chatter about what its critics say is the facile way it treats the issues raised in its narrative.
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But I believe he truly thinks this facile, far-fetched plot — Arthur Fleck loses his therapist and his job; he randomly finds out that his (possible) father is a billionaire and that his mother might have lied about his whole childhood; he morphs from a weakling into a vigilante in a single act of self-defense turned murder that improbably propels a giant class uprising; and he becomes a viral ironic joke who gets invited onto his favorite TV show, with all of this happening in a matter of weeks — is actually all very deep and full of pathos.
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There's a facile assumption abroad in the land that the two "outsider" presidential candidates in their respective parties, Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE and Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE, are different sides of the same coin, propelled by similar sentiments and overlapping voters.
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"I'm not saying it's irrelevant, but it's too easy to draw the wrong, facile conclusion," said Sebastian GorkaSebastian Lukacs GorkaPlayboy White House correspondent says he'll sue over suspended credentials Playboy plans to appeal after reporter says his White House credentials were suspended Gorka criticizes reporter after heated Rose Garden exchange MORE, a contributor to The Hill and former strategist and deputy assistant to the president, citing the likely confirmation of Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoAfghan president vows to take revenge after Islamic State attack on wedding The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Latest pro-democracy rally draws tens of thousands in Hong Kong MORE as secretary of State.
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