The doctor's facile assumption that she must want either marriage or an abortion insults her to the extent that Jane determines to have the child.
A facile assumption of the left?
The facile assumption is two-penny Freud: fear of loss of control, the psyche bone connected to the eye bone, and so forth.
For example, as battle of the sexes, the Thomas-Hill televised confrontation was disturbing and provoking because both antagonists were black, thus obviating facile assumptions about victim and victimizer.
But like most tax laws, no facile assumptions are in order.
Never again would Muslims make the facile assumption that God was a being like any other, whose existence could be demonstrated scientifically or philosophically.
But one reason I wrote this story was that I wanted to refute some of the facile assumptions about Thomas' intellect.
I would question the facile assumption that Hamilton was the original Republican (or original Democrat, for that matter).
Time and again, the unexpected depth and sensitivity of the characterizations reverse facile assumptions about the socially marginalized people who live in this neck of the woods.
Michael G. Morony remarked that "Despite a useful bibliography, this is a thin piece of Kulturgeschichte full of glib generalizations, facile assumptions, and tiresome jargon.