Snobs on its face would seem to be a facile story about a striving, dopey girl who marries for status in a somewhat backwards British society where status of the family tree kind still matters a great deal.

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Our investigation offers a facile process to assemble novel microrobots that can walk on the water surface by using superhydrophobic wires and miniature motors.

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It was a facile and somewhat flawed comparison.

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Mr Castaldo rejects it as a "facile argument".

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To say such a proposal does not redistribute wealth is facile.

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Normally I would not give this kind of facile argument much attention, but it is such a perfect illustration of a point I have made for years about the climate debate that I simply cannot resist.

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Unlike his earlier facile win in the opening 600cc race, the TAS Suzuki rider was involved in a three-way fight with Ian Hutchinson and Donegalman Raymond Porter in the Superstock event.

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The remake muddies the waters with self-consciousness: Scorsese and the screenwriter, Wesley Strick, have loaded the movie with apparent moral ambiguities, facile ideas about guilt and redemption, and explicit attempts to portray the scuzzy villain as a mythic nemesis.

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For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles-style self-obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send-up.

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