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  • "Don't be facile," Georgina said.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Your facile brain and your imperial presence didn't help you very much when you saw Paree, huh?†  (source)
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  • Because if we analyze the reasons honestly and thoroughly instead of shallow and facile and what else?†  (source)
  • 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)
  • He thought that the second piece on the program, Schubert's "Death and the Maiden," was played with facile theatricality.†  (source)
  • Thus it is unsafe, here as elsewhere, to generalize too facilely, and particularly unsafe to exhibit causes with too much assurance.†  (source)
  • He'd always had that, even when he hadn't had anything else, but now he felt as if he'd been ripped open and all the clever, facile words had poured out of him, leaving him empty.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • And it was probably facile to compare the responses of the United States and Cuba.†  (source)
  • The second line I have resurrected from the void may be a little too facile, but I have kept it.†  (source)
  • And your mind is as facile as a young lamb leaping in a daisy field.†  (source)
  • Lost and bewildered though I was I could contain myself no longer and I said sharply there was not too little care but too many thieves, and saw them nodding in facile agreement.†  (source)
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