facile
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“Picasso: The Last Years, 1963-1973,” an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, suggests that this final frenzy was not a facile coda to an epic life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Hitting her prime at 70, she has become the great theatrical interpreter of feelings too profound for facile talk.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
I found myself irrationally angry about the way T-Mobile convinced the Backstreet Boys to parody “I Want It That Way” with facile sloganeering.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026
What gets lost in facile critiques of gentrification, however, is its generative power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
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.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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