Sentences with phrase «as glib»

Also, remember that immediate advice may come off as glib and insulting to your partner.

While that is undoubtedly a difficult trade - off among 2 billion users across thousands of cultures, it struck me as glib, to borrow a word, to write off the difficulties of building a business out of people's personal and professional relationships.

The call to decarbonize the global economy by 80 % by 2050 can now only be described as glib in my opinion, as the underlying analysis shows it is only possible if we wish to see large parts of the population die from starvation, destitution or violence in the absence of enough low - carbon energy to sustain society.

Nobody seems to know how to present a satisfactory defense of Renoir's silken brushwork, which is so often dismissed as glib and superficial.

As if to foreshadow Smith's signature repetitiveness, a few homemade aluminum stop sign paintings appear as a glib note to self in this room, and yet they are unyielding in their provocation.

Or maybe one thinks of California as glib and empty, but of New York as the destination for anyone open to experience.

as is Clancy Brown, to voice the Goon) as glib motormouth Franky.

There's a light - hearted snappiness to the script, too, with Cruise's Nick valiantly staying as glib as he possibly can while being pursued across the Home Counties by an undead Egyptian sorceress.

I suspect it wants to be a satirical condemnation but it spends so much time parroting Belfort's self - serving point of view — he narrates the proceedings, often directly to the camera — with endless shots of adoring people fist - pumping and cheering on his every crime, that it often reads as a glib «Oops, my bad.

Plus, ironically deployed chirpy pop punk is used on the soundtrack, a tactic which was glib in the first film and now comes across as glib and unoriginal.

First, the good news is that, as a scientific or engineering job seeker, you don't need to be as glib or comfortable with self - promotion as a sales rep does.

I apologize but I don't understand your comment, no I do not mean this as a glib remark.

Not exact matches

«Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue.

He «came off as cold and calculating,» lacking in sincerity, «glib at inappropriate times, downright evasive at others,» and in general seemed «as much a machine as the bicycle he rode for so long.»

Martinez pointed to Section 17 (a) of the Securities Act and Section 10 (b) and Rule 10b - 5 of the Securities Exchange Act — which forbid misrepresentations in the course of security sales — as potential dangers for Mayweather and others who make glib or inaccurate statements about ICOs.

Whoever reads On the Edge of the Primeval Forest or the chapters in Schweitzer's autobiography dealing with his life in Africa, as if they were the sort of glib, humorous travelogue stories one finds in National Geographic, is missing a great deal.

Nor is the problem that so many people rattle off the golden rule without trying to live by it, like the scribes and Pharisees whom Jesus criticized on the grounds that «they say, and do not»; probably glib rattlers - off of the revised rule could be expected to fail as frequently to practice what they preach.

I heard them when Al Mohler dismissed me as «glib and irresponsible» for suggesting that perhaps Christianity is compatible with evolution.

They wouldn't be so glib if they read P. D. James as a detective who doubts the human capacity «to be good without God.»

I have put the case here as strongly as possible because it is a great danger to the concerns both of religion and of psychology to give a glib and simple interpretation of their relationship.

I note this with particular importance because one of the dangers, which, I hope, the ecumenical movement and the churches should avoid, is that of being «sucked» into the glib use of this word as part of the rhetoric of «political advocacy», or as a euphemism for things we do not like or have been opposed to in the past.

With its glib presentation and theological presumption, The Shack is easy to dismiss as a work of Christian art.

Charismatic, glib and young, Wallace has all the characteristics NASCAR desperately craves as it attempts to replace the star power it lost with Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Danica Patrick, and Tony Stewart all recently retiring.

Directing an upset of Texas, Houston's glib Danny Davis demonstrated that he can pass the word as well as the ball

The glib pseudo-empathetic copy sounded condescending to me and reads as if it were written by a young single man or a very young Woman trying hard to be irreverent and relatable.

Wow, ditto almost word for word, except my rather glib impression as a young student came from physical anthropology and human development.

Glib and confident online, Wu came off as thoughtful and soft - spoken in person.

The significance of this is not so much political as it is to serve as a caution against glib interpretations of polls.

This is why our commitment to corruption is not just a glib reference, it is not just glib talk, it is important, crucial and as a matter of fact as the President has said, if we don't kill corruption, corruption will kill us..

A fast and glib answer (and one raised at the conference) was that new platforms — especially F - 35 (but also the Royal Navy's T45) are now C4ISR assets in their own right — performing better in some respects than dedicated platforms — as well as having a kinetic attack function.

However, there is a nagging feeling that Mr Kennedy, 39, has a long way to go to play down his image as a bon viveur whose instinct is to blurt out a glib one - liner rather than develop a more thoughtful political point.

The instinct that told Mr Cameron - correctly - that the Tories were projecting themselves to the nation as moralistic bigots should now inform him that they are coming across as soft and complacent, just at a time when we are attracted to Mr Brown for his lack of glib style.»

As a libertarian rightwinger, Carswell is interesting here because he has sophisticated, well - thought - out policies, many of them Ukip - ish, in ways that would leave Farage looking the glib prattler he really is.

These occasions are scary, as he admitted to Sandi Toksvig, and he is no glib tub - thumper.

The reviewers for those publications were evidently pleased with the books message «environmental problems are not as bad as we've been told, and things are mostly getting better» but they evidently lacked the background or the inclination to find the flaws beneath the surface of Lomborgs glib and citation - strewn presentation.

Nick — don't mean to be glib here, but as much as I have faith in PHD improving your health, there still are some aspects of getting old that are inevitable.

I am unfamiliar with Lister - Jones's previous work (she is best known for the sitcom «Life in Pieces»), but she's a compelling screen presence, on top of her achievements as a writer - director; her close - ups register glib resistance and genuine vulnerability, often in rapid succession.

Think of the Deadpool franchise, then, as charter member of Glib»n' Smarmy.

You are exactly the same as the studios and filmmakers you attack, because you «re constantly dumbing yourself down in favor of sounding «hip / cool / witty / sarcastic / glib or snide».

Such glib, blithe quips are the motor oil of the teen comedy, but in her first outing as a solo writer and director, Gerwig is as sensitive to place and the fragility of young and old bodies as she is to her protagonist's often hurtful words.

When the nominations for the César Awards — known in glib terms as the French Oscars — were announced last month, I wrote that I anticipated a tight race between Roman Polanski's widely acclaimed Euro thriller «The Ghost Writer» and Xavier Beauvois's lofty Cannes prizewinner «Of Gods and Men,» with the latter just winning out.

Denis Villeneuve's gleaming thriller is arguably one of the year's best - made movies, but it's so glib and superficial in its treatment of the war on drugs — and the collateral damage left in its wake — as to border on exploitation.

Joe Dante's a great filmmaker, but I wish he had made his return to features with a movie better than Burying The Ex, a glib, EC Comics - influenced horror comedy that would probably work better as a short chapter in an anthology film.

Daniel Radcliffe has grown already by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and his presence benefits greatly from his increased confidence and maturity, and Kenneth Branagh is perfectly cast as the guest wizard, a glib, ego - maniacal author who spends more time preening that practicing spells.

He must bite his tongue, however, as he ferries glib tourists who ask «to see the devastation» of the 9th Ward.

Distracting for one, it borders on glib and disrespectful for another, dissolving the interview spots forward along to other points so as to render opinions half - delivered and sometimes without context.

But, as in his script for American Beauty, he puts the screws to the rest of the characters with a glib comic flip, and his direction only compounds the cartoonish characterizations.

Most memorably, a deliciously glib Walter Matthau and a remarkably young James Coburn as a wise - cracking Texan crook.

There's always an undercutting humour so we don't take this tale of malformed children (a callously glib McGuffin) too seriously: as in the scene in which western - writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), the naive, philistine vehicle for Greene's anti-Americanism, gets dragooned into talking to a British Council literary meeting, a direct crib from The Thirty - Nine Steps.

Yes, he did those «Romancing the Stone» roles, and he's been more memorable as a villain («Wall Street»), but his strongest roles are as sinners: not big or bad enough to be villains, more ordinary men, smart, glib, conniving, trying to get by on short dues.