When you penetrate but a little way, it is facile ground.
On facile ground, I would see that there is close connection between all parts of my army.
Morris' shorter poems are strikingly dramatic and picturesque, and his longer narrations are remarkably
facile and often highly pleasing.
Tudor had always been a wanderer, and with
facile wit and quick vivid description he leaped from episode and place to episode and place, relating his experiences seemingly not because they were his, but for the sake of their bizarreness and uniqueness, for the unusual incident or the laughable situation.
Before his
facile perils and ready laugh, life was no longer an affair of serious effort and restraint, but a toy, to be played with and turned topsy-turvy, carelessly to be lived and pleasured in, and carelessly to be flung aside.
I think they said to themselves, 'Doubtless this curiosity has got away from his keeper--let us amuse ourselves with him.' There is no other way of accounting for their
facile docility.
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a
facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
He invented a
facile excuse, and having taken the vacant seat next to her, looked round to see who was there.
Then uprose smooth-tongued Nestor, the
facile speaker of the Pylians, and the words fell from his lips sweeter than honey.
Swindon based combustion equipment manufacturer, G P BURNERS reports it has launched its
FACILE range of fully automatic burners.
While Eulogio Celestino fired in five goals to steer his team to a
facile victory, Shah Shamyl Alam earned a hat-trick and Abbas Mukhtar chipped in with a goal.