Sentences with phrase «glib doing»

Wacko Jones had a trip to England and thought it was glib doing a kiddy job on the messenger by getting his ABC propagandists to inserted this disgraceful M Mann's hockey stick into the Durkin chart.

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Neoclassical's glib mathiness is a gloss for its unscientific «don't worry about debt» message.

Whether that assessment is glib, naïve, or something else entirely, it hardly matters, because no one else can do Zuckerberg's job.

If a broker says something a little glib, and the evidence doesn't support it, that will further deteriorate and accelerate the crisis of confidence.

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

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.

Celebrities don't just tweet glib little quips or take filtered brunch pics anymore; they speak out against issues, injustice or politics they don't agree with.

Celebrities don't just tweet glib little quips or take filtered brunch pics anymore; they

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

Hugh Mann: Does your ignorant glib comment about judgment get you out of jury duty?

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.

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».

When this is done, Deuteronomy's words are no longer simply glib promises of heaven - sent wealth for the righteous, but a daring attempt to interpret the history of his people in the light of God's concern for their obedience.

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.

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

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.»

And the media muppets are wilfully ignorant on this — someone tell me the last televised match where one of the numpties doesn't reach for the stock, lazy, glib comment about «Mertesacker's lack of pace will be a problem and x and y and z will be licking their lips....

i don't mean to be glib here but surely you can see that.

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.

4) Don't trivialize her concerns or offer glib reassurances.

If you still choose to bed - share, don't be glib about it.

Gingrich and Romney want to get rid of bilingual ballots: «Yet their glib demand for English - only ballots would require amending the Voting Rights Act and doing away with hard - won legal requirements that have existed for decades.

That's fine but it's a glib statement which doesn't lead anywhere useful.

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..

«Regardless of the governor's glib talking points, New Yorkers should understand that this deal did not result from meaningful debate and good judgment — it resulted from political expediency — and it will have harmful consequences to people and communities now and for a long time to come,» Donohue said.

«I don't want to be glib and say no, this has nothing to do with — I think anybody who's been through what I have been through, sure you want redemption.

We need to change glib politics to serious non-profit public interest politics and force the truth that true democracy means EVERY VOTE DOES COUNT.

Mark Zuckerberg said it was «extremely glib» to suggest that because the public did not pay to use Facebook that it did not care about them.

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.

If you paid close attention, you would have noticed Dr. Greger didn't challenge either of those findings, but rather dismissed them with a glib, «but is that because, or despite, their white rice consumption?»

Glib answers in the comments sections don't do them justice, but unfortunately, that's all I have time for these days.

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.

It may sound glib, but Romney's assertion about the cat was the first time I realised that film criticism didn't have to be a job which involved attempting to understand a filmmaker on his or her own terms.

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.

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.

They're not glib and don't fall easily into the cliches of remorse and redemption.

They bring a verisimilitude to a story that does not restrict itself to mere realism, instead diving into a third act confrontation that spirals into surreal sights and violence that manages to unsettle in a desensitized, glib genre.

The opening scene in Manhattan showing Sebastian outsmarting a glib psychotherapist — which has no counterpart in the novel — seems somewhat forced and contrived, but it does set up the character's cockiness with a minimum of fuss.

Like the best scenes in Wes Craven's Last House on the Left or all of Tobe Hooper's original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Manson Family places horror in our face in a way a glib depiction of human tragedy like Pearl Harbor does not.

The film's politics are often glib and reductive — it doesn't have a keen interest in the Lebanese people or the history of the region — but, if you like spycraft stories in the vein of John le Carré's work, this is a briskly paced, occasionally clever thriller featuring a winning performance from Hamm, who has struggled to find the right star vehicle since the end of Mad Men.

From James Purefoy's Joe Carroll on «The Following» to Michael Mosely's Triple Killer on, well, «Castle,» we've seen this glib kind of death dealer done to death.

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.

It's glib, and the rest of the essay doesn't read like that, making me wonder if this is something Kalat truly believes, or if he's merely wrestling with the same disconnect he identifies contemporary critics of Franju's work wrestling with: namely, how could a serious artist be working in the horror genre?

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.

The movie is so glib that when Benedict Cumberbatch's Dr. Strange appears and Thor tells him he doesn't know who he is, you half - expect Strange to hand him a Blu - Ray of last year's «Dr. Strange.»

Yet that glib statement doesn't do justice to a galaxy of education institutions ranging from dismal to superb.

Because few educators today are inclined to denounce data, there has been an unfortunate tendency to embrace glib new solutions rather than ask the simple question, What exactly does it mean to use data or research to inform decisions?

I don't want to be glib about it.

But if you really want to know whether or not you're on track to call it a career, you don't want a glib talker or sales type.