We should be wary of facile comparisons.

But since 9/11, the facile comparison between the nation's first M.B.A. president and a detached chairman of the board has lost its currency.

Perhaps a required reading will put an end to that facile comparison.

The Helfgott hype included facile and absurd comparisons.

He ended by saying, "facile comparisons to fellow Barbadian Rihanna have shadowed Shontelle, but this should move her into the spotlight."

As a white Southerner, I have always been fascinated by South Africa's race relations, but wary of facile comparisons.

Dr. Doddington hopes that whatever comes, future vendors of voice authentication systems will be wary of making facile comparisons to fingerprints, less they offer false assurances.

It's a facile comparison to put these songs against Norah Jones's, but at least it helps to orient them in the new landscape.

And what a thorough record it is: a decade and a half of judicial opinions that deserve close study, not facile comparison to the work of Justice Scalia.

"Historians should avoid facile comparisons between the past and the present," Mr. Sharpe acknowledges, and he simply prods readers to think, after serving up a fascinating tale.