Sentences with phrase «glib self»

To postmodern critics, it reflects the glib self - confidence of an emerging American empire.

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).

Capote eventually lapsed into glib self - parody, and Capote reveals how a writer can become a prisoner of his own carefully cultivated image.

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.

What is Kamlah's glib self - commitment to the «All - One» compared with the profundity of the Attic tragedians and Nietzsche?

Amid unprecedented wealth, the very existence of hungry children is a cause for shame, not glib self - satisfaction.

Not exact matches

It brings to light how glib and self - centered worship songs can be.

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.

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

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.

He's also pretty funny when it comes to the pretensions of the rock publications, which are made to seem scarcely less self - infatuated and glib than the rock stars.

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.

Too glib and self - satisfied to count as a success, yet too personal to fully dismiss, Tusk — which features Fleetwood Mac's annoying coke - fueled march of the same name — is slippery as a seal.

But fundamentally this is the sort of glib, sucrose fantasy that reminded me a little of David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button or Jean - Pierre Jeunet's similarly icky and self - admiring The Young And Prodigious TS Spivet.

Judd retrospectively and speciously declared that he wrote criticism in the 1950s simply out of a mercenary's need for a part - time job that offered flexibility.1 Obviously, this remark was glib — his writing served as an instrument for self - understanding and discursive scaffolding for his own art.

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.

Her 2005 sculpture Self Portrait (Bath) is so glib in its imagery - a neon light tangled in barbed wire - it should be renamed Self Portrait (Bathos).