Sample Sentences forfacile (auto-selected)
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Soon her fingers dance across the keys making the flawless seem facile.† (source)
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"Don't be facile," Georgina said.† (source)
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The vampire's facile hand beckoned him, and he came towards me, his eyes fearless and exciting, and he drew up to me in the candlelight and put his arms around my shoulders.† (source)
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That same woman, it came back to me, who now applauded my virility and passion, had stood quite near me, before a painfully labored canvas, and said, "So facile."† (source)
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In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.† (source)
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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.† (source)
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Conklin would give Delta the benefit of two minutes to say whatever came to his facile mind.† (source)
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Sometimes, instructing children in the old days, he had been asked by some black lozenge-eyed Indian child, 'What is God like?' and he would answer facilely with references to the father and the mother, or perhaps more ambitiously he would include brother and sister and try to give some idea of all loves and relationships combined in an immense and yet personal passion.† (source)
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And your mind is as facile as a young lamb leaping in a daisy field.† (source)
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Thus it is unsafe, here as elsewhere, to generalize too facilely, and particularly unsafe to exhibit causes with too much assurance.† (source)
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The second line I have resurrected from the void may be a little too facile, but I have kept it.† (source)
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The business of writing English, in his day, was unharassed by the proscriptions of purists, and so the vocabulary could be enriched more facilely than today, but though Shakespeare and his fellow-dramatists quickly adopted such neologisms as /to bustle/, /to huddle/, /bump/, /hubbub/ and /pat/, it goes without saying that they exercised a sound discretion and that the slang of the Bankside was full of words and phrases which they were never tempted to use.† (source)
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Because if we analyze the reasons honestly and thoroughly instead of shallow and facile and what else?† (source)
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He thought that the second piece on the program, Schubert's "Death and the Maiden," was played with facile theatricality.† (source)
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Most of all, they elude facile description, but they do possess a municipal character that has a lot to do with two centuries of scriptural belief that they are simply superior to other people of the earth.† (source)
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She had expected some facile lie.† (source)
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