Example sentences for: facile

How can you use “facile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Discussions covered the merits of dance as a social and recreational activity ("facile" or "spiritual"?)

  • The New York Times ' Janet Maslin, on the other hand, says the "audaciously beautiful imagery, captivating symmetries and brilliantly facile tricks" redeem the film.

  • The new lyrics (by Bernie Taupin), she says, are "as facile and pretty as a souvenir thimble"; the apparently hot new genre of pop elegy, she adds, is tacky.

  • Speaking of the Times , did you see Johnny Apple Polisher's piece over the weekend marveling at Bush's facile frat-boy geniality?

  • Among the conclusions: A national apology for slavery would be hollow and facile, but America should erect a slavery memorial on the Mall.


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