Sentences with phrase «glibness of»

One knows all the elements, the colors, and the rituals, but the glibness of just another Bearden pretty much vanishes up close.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

But the Icarus are was now at work — his glibness becoming proof, to his critics, of his guile; his gargantuan appetite for life proof of his greed.

The checklist's 20 items include glibness / superficial charm, grandiose sense of self - worth, need for stimulation / proneness to boredom, pathological lying, conning / manipulation, lack of remorse / guilt, shallow affect, callousness / lack of empathy, parasitic lifestyle, promiscuous sexual behavior, early behavior problems, lack of realistic, long - term goals, impulsivity, failure to accept responsibility, many short - term marital relationships, juvenile delinquency and criminal versatility.

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

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.

«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.

«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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I want to live it, experience it, breathe it, be part of it, so I can deserve to talk about it, because I'm sick of glibness.