| Making a judgement based on his outer crust you might assume he could be facile and lightweight in a clever kind of way. |
| Often, they swallow the facile lie that victims of terror are somehow culpable. |
| If you want Swift to be a dark ironist rather than a facile pamphleteer, you might examine the premises that make his fable so easy to digest. |
| Antithesis is not a facile device of rhetorical amplification, as the adversaries of Romanticism have contended. |
| They try to turn our complex and multifaceted planet into the facile contents of a military thriller. |
| There is an equally facile sub-breed of Malthusians convinced that the World will exhaust its energy reserves in 15-20 years. |
