Sentences with phrase «glib at»

It is, however, glib at best and, at its worst, nothing short of irresponsible.

His gamesmanship, as when upstairs he piles up busts of Tom Cruise, appears glib at best.

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.»

Not exact matches

In an interview with Vox's Ezra Klein, Zuckerberg called Cook's comments «extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth.»

At the risk of sounding glib, markets rose despite bad news from UBS, because those investors left are optimists.

Like Hawking, she went through a lot of pain in her personal life, but at least she doesn't pontificate or make glib remarks.

That may sound glib, but I don't mean it at all glibly.

Thiel writes in «Against Edenism» (June / July) with a glib optimism that masks the true danger of this arrogant and at the same time nihilistic movement:

Less persuasive, to me at least, is the claim that this probably continued until 1931, the year in which Lewis converted to Christianity (and would now think a relation with a married woman to be wrong) Wilson's way of making this point is, however, an instance of a very undesirable trait in his writing: the tendency to assert indirectly and to be glib while seeming to eschew it: «It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change, to adopt Christianity, merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs. Moore, whatever the nature of those relations had been.»

Even then, I didn't realize how bad things were until the glib guy behind the counter at the computer store gave me a brochure for a place in California where I could send it, telling me there was a good chance it couldn't be fixed but that if it could be, it would likely cost «in the thousands.»

THE SEEKERS Shopping for something snappy to one - up the neighbors at Schroon Lake next summer, two recruits in the army of new American boat buyers succumb to a salesman's glib take - it - for - a-spin attitude.

It's a little too glib to suggest that every postseason team that advances to at least an LDS has only a one - eighth chance of winning the World Series.

He said he had decided to clam up after holding out in training camp, because «I didn't want to complicate things with the glib and witty Christensen at that point.

He took his trademark barbs at Consensus, calling its supporters «apologists» and offering some glib comments about «Syradaga» and «Ononcuse.»

This is not the usual glib, theoretical boosterism about how Britain must sit at the top table and play to win.

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.

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.»

Anti-gay rhetoric and glib dismissal of our basic humanity can no longer be countenanced — at any time or in any place.

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).

It's a divertingly funny movie, but its breeziness can also feel overstated, at times glib and a bit of a dodge.

You'd be hard - pressed to name a work of art, let alone another TV show, that balances such enormity so playfully, without also being glib about the ponderous questions at its core.

(Herzog thankfully keeps the glib jokes coming, at one point volunteering to be a first - wave colonizer on Mars.)

This is no glib gag laughing at the idea of a man / machine romance, however, but an earnest inquiry into what makes relationships tick.

Though he clearly loves his daughter, he is often glib and sarcastic toward Natalie and seems to chafe at the whole notion of marriage.

In a lesser filmmakers hands this would seem glib and unbearably trite but Linklater is an old pro at integrating pop culture riffs without being too on the nose (last year's Everybody Wants Some with its «My Sharona» opening being a fine example).

Like its heroine, the film's glib - and sometimes sidesplittingly funny - patter at first diverts viewers from its poignant insights.

But the film, with its glib, flashy tone, wants to have it both ways: It wants us to sympathize with Harding, who unapologetically tells her story in I'm - over-it flashback, and to laugh at her — even as she endures physical abuse.

«I, Tonya,» with its glib, flashy tone, wants to have it both ways: It wants us to sympathize with Harding, who unapologetically tells her story in I'm - over-it flashback, and to laugh at her — even as she endures physical abuse.

Unlike the anti-heroes at the center of Sorkin's The Social Network or Steve Jobs, Molly isn't glib or dismissive of everyone and everything around her.

This glib biopic takes a brawny, inconsistent look at controversial»90s sports star Tonya Harding.

It's a little too glib for me, but at its core are some fundamental and eminently sensible imperatives, not least of which is to let kids be kids.

The shock value of the first sentence — «After killing the red - haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper» — is all the greater as a result of the reader being ignorant of why Glyver has been driven to commit such an act; but its apparent glib and unfeeling assurance is modified dramatically when we later realize Glyver's true state of mind at this time.

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.

I made that choice intentionally, though it entailed certain risks, the first, quite simply, that places of such celebrity may upstage characters and events; the second, that they will make the story seem superficial or glib, like the escapist fiction you buy at the airport to distract yourself from the boredom and anxiety of flying.

And glib assurances that it will all be fine won't cut it here when so much is at stake.

The dialogue is snappy, if way too glib, and the gunplay ranges from acceptable to quite good, but the game's initial setup is so preposterous that you find yourself wishing it were all staged on another planet or, at the very least, in some invented Middle Eastern city.

Like Alan Vega and the bad boys, too, he can be thoroughly glib and piercingly clever at the same time.

The title of Deborah Kass's exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery, MORE Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times, is enough to clue the viewer into her glib brand of post-everything art.

That might sound glib, but it describes the simple logic at work in Alicia Beach's recent projects.

BTW I may have missed others saying this, but having this weird system where you have to have a plugin (and change it at random times) to understand what is going on on here, is the best rebuttal to anyone who says McIntyre is a glib shill.

This summary of the glib comebacks offered at leftist cult - science - fraudster sites is notable for one main thing.

Dr. Lindzen seems quite glib, at times, with his pat assurances about the minimal consequences of living with minor increments of surface heating.

To do so is to take back a measure of responsibility, too, to become, at the very least, a little less glib in one's pronouncements.»

They were more interested in making glib debating points than truly engaging with the issues at hand.

Ouch, for sure, which caused Zuckerberg to retaliate today in a podcast with Vox.com's Ezra Klein, in which he said Cook's comments were «extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth.»

Returning a recent spate of critiques of Facebook made by Apple CEO Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg said Cook's argument was «extremely glib» and «not aligned with the truth,» and took a dig at Apple's high prices.

Zuckerberg said: «You know, I find that argument, that if you're not paying that somehow we can't care about you, to be extremely glib — and not at all aligned with the truth.If you want to build a service which is not just serving rich people, then you need to have something people can afford.

On Monday, Zuckerberg hit back at Cook's evaluation of the Facebook business model, calling it a «glib» assessment that was far away from the truth.

«I find that argument, that if you're not paying that somehow we can't care about you, to be extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth,» Zuckerberg told Vox in a podcast.

«You know, I find that argument, that if you're not paying that somehow we can't care about you, to be extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth,» Zuckerberg said to Vox.