Sentences with phrase «how glib»

I guess I've never been exactly comfortable with how glib it sounds - how completely unequal to the task of describing that transformative day when we first saw your beautiful face.

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

Not exact matches

Maher and Limbaugh are actually kinda similar in how they seem to consider glib insults cute and witty, when they are neither.

Yet I recall how Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew attacked «the glib, activist element who would tell us our values are lies.»

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.»

This is not the usual glib, theoretical boosterism about how Britain must sit at the top table and play to win.

i really like you so much, but i'm so angered by anyone's glib statement about how easy constipation is to cure.

From a technical standpoint, the film was one for the ages (this was one of those increasingly rare movies that cried out to be seen on the biggest screen possible and was even one of the few to make intelligent use of 3D technology) but what was even more surprising was how effective it was from a dramatic standpoint as well, thanks in no small part to the career - best work from Bullock and the deft use of Clooney's glib star quality to help orient viewers for what might have otherwise been an off - putting experience).

An effort to capture how things really are, The Spectacular Now is an earnest coming - of - age film that avoids the glib reflexes symptomatic of the genre, and the sanctimony and staginess of overwrought addiction melodramas.

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?

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

How strange that it needed the glib but sincere entertainments of a magnificent but capsized ego.

Nobody seems to know how to present a satisfactory defense of Renoir's silken brushwork, which is so often dismissed as glib and superficial.

I've thought long and hard and consulted widely about how I can best use my term as Commissioner so I can assure you that the priorities I'll outline today are more than just a glib list.