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It’s also expedient and facile, sparing the party from looking inward and doing the truly hard work it faces.

California had exported to other states the facile low-tax policies of Howard Jarvis and Ronald Reagan’s view of government as “the problem, not the solution.”

Neither do facile excuses like “economic anxiety” cut it.

We can easily imagine the real Scorsese has had to face similar ordeals with facile Hollywood suits.

While well-intended and admiring, the biography often proves facile, showing difficulty reckoning with Demme’s oeuvre and its deeper political and cinematic lessons.