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
It is hard to overstate just how facile this whole enterprise has proved to be.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026
Neither do facile excuses like “economic anxiety” cut it.
From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025
“Ezra” could easily tip into melodrama, but Goldwyn sidesteps that with a rather facile ending, seemingly skipping a story beat in the denouement.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
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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