Sentences with word «glibness»

The first two Thor flicks had their share of comedy, but they didn't come with the incessant glibness of Ragnarok.

That he occasionally veers into comic book glibness with one - liners undermines none of the intensity; on the contrary, these moments provide a release that is absolutely necessary to keeping the audience from succumbing to The Joker's febrile madness.

But if the filmmakers sometimes indulge in easy mockery of the South and its people, they also deliberately subvert such glibness through their brilliant and entirely sincere use of American folk music.

There's an underlying realness to her that defies glibness.

Instead, the movie toes an unconvincing line between earnest sentiment and sweary glibness as Deadpool tries to protect an orphaned misfit (Hunt for the Wilderpeople's Julian Dennison) from a warrior from the future, Cable (Josh Brolin, having a big - budget season with this and Avengers: Infinity War).

His sonorous delivery is a nice counter to Ebert's signature glibness.

It bodes well for fans of Deadpool that Atomic Blonde's director, David Leitch, is currently working on the sequel, given the simpatico levels of glibness on display here.

The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old - fashioned sound and structure of our King James's translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel — half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity.

The ground for this global glibness is sheer mythology.

One consequence of this otherwise laudable decision is that his later books all suffer from a vague glibness verging on banality, even while the author is discussing the most complex and profound sorts of issues.

The Writer is gifted, but so much so that he has a tendency toward glibness.

To find the way of supporting and sustaining each other in the midst of our openness arid self — criticism without glibness and sentimentality — that is not easy.

I think glibness, I think ideologically based rhetoric, I think trying to divide up society between the haves and have — nots and mobilise the middle ground against the rich is as unacceptable as we have from elsewhere in the political spectrum trying to mobilise the middle ground against what they call welfare scroungers but are actually poor people who have little and want more.

Many dating profiles, especially on OKCupid, descend into smarmy glibness.

Ambitious pic occasionally creaks under the weight of strained metaphors, but intelligent talking heads and engagingly shambolic cartoons conquer unwieldy narrative and sporadic glibness.

Their lines have a hack's glibness rather than a child's innocence.

Documentarians David Leaf and John Scheinfeld go beyond the usual glibness, revealing a much fuller portrait of the man.

Such is the incurable glibness of filmmakers whose attempts to produce hip, mainstream - adjacent entertainments keep real artistry safely at bay.

We acclimate to the heroine's affected mannerisms and her chronic need to impress others with feeble glibness, which meets questions and confused glances from peers.

Those two events are a vehicle for von Trier to explore both emotional and spiritual crisis while also proffering a pitch - black worldview with regard to God and life's meaning, concerns that feature little of the overt glibness that plagued Antichrist, whose provocations and stylistic tics regularly undercut its psycho - horror, but remain issues that the Danish director treats at a frustrating remove.

Occasional glibness and over-quippy dialogue don't detract too much from «1234» «s sincere, summery spirit — amid the festival's bleaker British fare, this is a ray of (rare) London sunshine.

The confessor takes umbrage at the priest's perceived glibness, and the priest apologizes.

A quiet pathos spans the collection, and a well - timed glibness injects these stories with an undercurrent of dark humor.

Where Lightner's simplicity risks glibness, so does Walker's complexity.

I could contrast it with too many a painter, such as Tiepolo, who brought glibness to majesty.

Such glibness can have consequences far worse than a group of grumpy, exhausted engineers, sleep scientists say.

Demme's never been a hater, and even as Meryl Streep flings off weird sparks to her grizzled band mates the Flash, there's an underlying realness to her that defies glibness.

Instead, the movie toes an unconvincing line between sweary glibness and sentiment as Deadpool tries to protect Julian Dennison's («Hunt for the Wilderpeople») orphaned misfit from Josh Brolin's terminator - from - the - future, Cable.

Herrmann's serious and sonorous delivery is a nice counter to Ebert's signature glibness, and he gives more weight to thoughtful points Ebert makes about moviegoing, including the timelessness of a great movie: «I look at silent movies sometimes and do not feel I am looking at old films.

It would be really helpful if people on here could avoid religious cliches and try to write things in their own words — otherwise the glibness tends to just slide over people and what's being said is lost.

Impeccable logic, however, can have its own kind of glibness, and it is to the bishops» credit that they refuse to treat ethics as though it were a form of inspired mathematics which can be pushed to some tidy conclusion.

Our ritual speech needs to reflect the animation, energy, and spontaniety that we have come to value, without an attitude of glibness and affect.

Anyone with knowledge of psychiatry and familiar with either obsessive compulsive disorder or morbid anxiety has to marvel at the glibness and lack of intellectual rigor that such claims displayed.

«I can appreciate the glibness when people ask him about it,» she said.

Unfortunately, wit merges into less - savory conditions: glibness, flipness, smarmy - ness, pretension.

But: cynicism, glibness, and sarcasm don't translate well to the page; or the screen, as it is.

To succeed, he has to collect all six of the Infinity Stones, a plot device that underscores the basic gotta - have - em - all glibness of the genre.

«Landline» has some of that, too, to be sure: In some scenes, such as the secret - spilling encounter between the sisters in the family country house on Long Island, the glibness becomes less a part of the characters» armor and more a matter of avoiding a scene's deeper possibilities.

9 The Red Turtle A rebuke to the glibness of most children's entertainment, this enthralling debut feature by longtime Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit transpires without a word of dialogue, its human characters dwarfed by a majestic natural environment.

«The heartbeat of the film is Plaza's nimble performance — the micro-second behind - the - beat inability to glibness, the stilted smile in the selfie and that feral alertness to threat in her watchful gaze» — LL

Part of me wants to say: «That's what makes this true crime series so insidiously good,» but even I have limits to my glibness.

It's an obvious premise, but I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Francois Velle directs this farce without any of the glibness that scriptwriter Craig Sherman is attacking.

With the glibness of those who do not appreciate that the protection of public health is more than a matter of promulgating regulations, the boys and girls spoke of the work of federal meat inspectors and local board of health agents.

He heightens the glibness of both more than I care to say.

Still, those white nudes are collapsing, with feeling, and variety is getting in the way of glibness.

The «Entablatures,» say, seem to me the worst of both historical pretension and glibness — but even the metal sculpture here, for rocky crags out of Asian landscapes, never lets its die - cut process stand in the way of routine.

A touch of glibness, glitter, pride, and portraiture is going around these days in African American art.