Sentences with phrase «by glib»

In this context Blas's approach brings a dash of glamour and mischief to a postdigital aesthetics partly driven by testosterone - heavy technocults and partly by glib brand looks.

Don't be fooled by glib words, shops are there to make money for their owners.

«This runs the risk of living in a world run by the short - sighted, by the empathy - challenged, and by the glib.»

Like a pair of murderous Eddie Haskells, Peter and Paul (BradyCorbett and Michael Pitt) politely call on the Farbers to borrow eggs; their unanticipated visit escalates step by slippery step into a takeover fueled by their glib sophistries and propensity for violence.

The intellectual daring of his previous speeches is gone, replaced by glib jokes and caution.

And Martin, yes we should persevere and not give new believers the impression «there is no fight of faith» and «we do nt have to do our part» by a glib statement «once saved always saved».

Being aware, pastors will certainly continue to listen not only to the parishioner / counselee, but also to any signs that they themselves are short - circuiting the process of growth by glib or impatient responses in the interview.

Not exact matches

The Gay Divorcee (1934), a Fred Astaire — Ginger Rogers comedy, was condemned by the Legion for its glib portrayal of, yes, divorce.

My quest for truth — with all of its searching, its tears, its research, and its late - night prayers — had been deemed «glib and superficial» by someone who didn't even know me.

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.

The inadequacy of superficial answers and glib reassurances was described by «a late inmate of Glasgow Royal Asylum for lunatics» around the year 1860.

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.

Then yesterday I had the displeasure of reading this piece by a mother who is so glib about her CIO experience and so focused on her own experiences without a second thought to her child, it made me feel physically ill.

That our new friend was not particularly glib was not held against her by her middle - aged admirers.

People like Livingstone and Toynbee will always answer a question on welfare fraud by responding with a glib soundbite stating that they are more concerned with Goldman Sachs bonuses, or Lord Ashcroft's tax arrangements.

Specifically, she was thinking about Gartner's hype cycle, a glib model cooked up by an IT research firm, in which every new technology ascends a «peak of inflated expectations,» sinks into a «trough of disillusionment,» then climbs the «slope of enlightenment» to reach a «plateau of productivity.»

I find the article, written in the cool, cosmopolitan style so adored by the New Yorker magazine, to be glib and mistaken in its underlying hypotheses.

i really like you so much, but i'm so angered by anyone's glib statement about how easy constipation is to cure.

The «traditions are important» line is funny, without being too glib (the «Jesus» and «Black Men» pieces mentioned are by David Sedaris, hardly a religious writer at all).

A glib yet intelligent spoof, it joins the ranks of Our Man Flint (1965), Aghaye Hallou (1970), Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street (1984), and other international pictures that glibly satirize the subgenre made infamous to Americans by Bond; like Mad Mission 3, it even packs in an OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) with a startling resemblance to Sean Connery.

Even Unforgiven, which is revered by younger filmmakers for its sense of despair, is a comic and colorful character study, with vignettes that resist glib sociopolitical codifying.

A handful of coincidences result in the arrest of a mentally impaired statutory rapist (an unrestrained Del Toro), from whom a perfunctory confession is extracted (by Eckhart, the standard bearer of glib, beady - eyed bureaucratic malice).

After all, Crowe's script is specifically dealing with a shallow, glib mover and shaker who senses that he has essentially gotten by on charm and looks, and is now struggling to find something like a soul beneath the gloss.

Stylish, diverting and well - acted by some, but hampered by an awfully glib, self - satisfied script that rarely takes its conflicts into unexpected directions.

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.

James Ponsoldt, who directed from a script by Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter, is a bit too glib to do justice to this material, but the young actors, especially Woodley, are quite fine.

But Kesslee, the movie's arch-villain (played by the original movie punk, Malcolm McDowell), brought me back to the facetious S and M rhetoric of the glib and cutesy Barbarella.

Surely Jason Bateman's character, a glib and thoroughly unspecial «specialist,» is the very epitome of the American missionary - tourist - soldier, more fresh - faced, pencil - necked, and ill - informed even than the U.S. diplomat played by Jeremy Piven.

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.

Landis has shown some wit and imagination with his past screenplays for «American Ultra» and «Mr. Right,» but the script for «Bright» — reportedly rewritten heavily by Ayer — is laden with glib and corny attempts to reference real - world racial animus.

Of course, there's the Stan Lee cameo followed by Wade Wilson's glib, introspective monologue set to Hans Zimmer's «You're So Cool,» the theme from True Romance.

The series, adapted by David Nicholls (Far From the Madding Crowd) and German director Edward Berger (Deutschland 83), is punchy and manic, and walks a fine line between being wonderfully glib and woefully grim.

But this is not some glib ghetto reconfiguring of a worthy classic satire (in this case, Lysistrata by Aristophanes).

To get the competitive edge, Lassard brings back plenty of ringers from earlier films to help train new recruits for the big competition, including Sgt. Carey Mahoney, a glib, wisecracking lady's man played by Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith's towering Moses Hightower and Eugene Tackleberry (David Graff), the franchise's Rambo figure.

As an exercise in subversion Deadpool 2 doesn't quite achieve the same level of success as the first film, opting too often to undermine its genre staples by prefacing them with glib one - liners.

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.

It's a phenomenal talent, but one that betrays him on The Mother by making glib the film's subject matter.

But if you like Vaughn's glib charm and flinty sweetness, you'll enjoy seeing him con the elves into doing his work and pressure his pushover brother (played by Paul Giamatti as a pussycat of a Santa Claus) for a loan.

That's a cheeky move for a young screenwriter, risking having his work tossed on the thanks - but - no - thanks pile by overworked script readers fatigued with first - timers» glib attempts to catch the eye.

Described by many a critic as ««Michael Clayton» on acid,» a description that makes it sound a good deal more glib and less beautiful than it really is, it's a Haneke - cool deconstruction of office ethics and politics centered on the mental unraveling of a business in - house psychologist — yet another star turn from the extraordinary Mathieu Amalric.

The British comedian recorded a «takedown» of charter schools that was quickly and correctly dismissed by Reason «s Nick Gillespie as «clever, glib, and uninformed.»

In their glib self - confidence, the champions of that effort have refused to confront its costs and unintended consequences, and have been far too quick to silence skeptics by branding them blind defenders of the status quo (if not calling them outright racists).

This instalment has Dexter hanging out in a nightclub refrigerator, a boarded - up trailer and an abandoned amusement park at dusk; all the while we are entertained by Dexter's glib tongue and ready wit.

Remember, children without books translates to a world run by the shortsighted and the glib and the apathetic and the narrow - minded.

Random elements drawn from a shallow pool that gets repetitive quick, permadeath that's more annoying than thrilling due to sloppy combat and formulaic introductory sequences, such a glib disregard for balance that some runs will be nearly unwinnable by nature.

Subtitled Everything You Need to Know About Art, Ads, Life, God and Other Mysteries — and Weren't Afraid to Ask... and written in a question - and - answer format, the book reveals Saatchi to be by turns frank, humorous, mysterious, glib and sometimes downright opaque.

Glib, voguish and puddle - deep, it is like an exhibition curated by i - D magazine.

Antony Gormley also delivers a typically glib statement in which an abstract field is divided by an elongated human figure.

patronising, glib slogan applied by English speakers to Greece's financial policy of accepting heavy loans from other EU countries».

The sculptures of Anthony Smart and John Foster in particular had by the late seventies completely broken from anything remotely allied to Caro's frontality, or from the New Generation's often glib sculpture - by - design, or from any trace of American minimalism.