Sentences with phrase «glib man»

Eddie Murphy and Norbit director Brian Robbins are in final talks to reunite for A Thousand Words, a DreamWorks comedy about a glib man (Matt Lauer?)

In the other corner is Frost's polar opposite, the least glib man on Earth, the tortured Richard Nixon (Langella), a world - class brooder with a Machiavellian mind who is shown, in «Frost / Nixon's» opening sequences, resigning the presidency in disgrace and leaving Washington for soothing San Clemente in 1974.

Not exact matches

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.

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).

We find that both men and women are guilty of excessive glib.

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.

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.

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

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.

Brolin's team of Untouchables includes charming ladies» man Gosling (who has finally reached the level of glib self - parody), weasel - faced electronics whiz Giovanni Ribisi, hot - headed Anthony Mackie, and sharpshooter Robert Patrick, whose performance as an anachronistic cowboy feels like a feature - length homage to Sam Elliott.

Paul Schrader, a man who knows a thing or two about sex, guilt, and self - destruction, made a fairly engaging biopic about Crane called Auto Focus, starring a perfectly cast Greg Kinnear, who captured both Crane's glib charm and his stormy depths.

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.

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.

March 15, 2018 • Max Winkler's tale of a teenager who uses sex to get revenge on a man who may or may not have assaulted her step - brother is a «glib character study» that tries too hard to shock.

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.

Although, this is a glib over-simplification, it illustrates the point that generally speaking men and women have different erotic pathways; or to roughly quote the comedian, Billy Crystal, «Women need a reason to have sex.