Sentences with phrase «in glib»

The relationship to painting is referenced in glib fashion; the associative pun to taste — both in its sensory and cultural definitions — is too facile, too direct.

«There is a sea - change, they are not interested in the glib or the clever,» says Sundaram Tagore, who has galleries in Hong Kong and New York.

The similarity is unmistakable, but I don't feel Wunderman is indulging here in some glib historicism.

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).

A real - time exercise in witty dialogue, cartoonish violence and aim just bad enough to leave its protagonists bloodied but alive through most of its swift duration, «Free Fire» feels like a left - handed project from a filmmaker whose gifts for staging, framing and pacing are on full display but feel ultimately wasted in a glib, down - and - dirty bagatelle.

Charlize Theron blasts her way through Cold War - era Berlin in this glib actioner from John Wick's David Leitch.

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.

In its glib and reductionist way, it works like a charm.

Not exact matches

The days when Mark Zuckerberg felt like he could be glib about the idea of Russia using Facebook to interfere in the presidential election suddenly seem long ago.

He «came off as cold and calculating,» lacking in sincerity, «glib at inappropriate times, downright evasive at others,» and in general seemed «as much a machine as the bicycle he rode for so long.»

Martinez pointed to Section 17 (a) of the Securities Act and Section 10 (b) and Rule 10b - 5 of the Securities Exchange Act — which forbid misrepresentations in the course of security sales — as potential dangers for Mayweather and others who make glib or inaccurate statements about ICOs.

In an interview with Vox's Ezra Klein, Zuckerberg called Cook's comments «extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth.»

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

Yes, expounding the greatness and goodness of God, the transcendence and freedom of God to be God, is not easy in a time when any talk of God is either difficult or glib.

Like Hawking, she went through a lot of pain in her personal life, but at least she doesn't pontificate or make glib remarks.

Being aware, pastors will certainly continue to listen not only to the parishioner / counselee, but also to any signs that they themselves are short - circuiting the process of growth by glib or impatient responses in the interview.

The issue with them, he says, is not so much that they're false, but rather that sometimes they are used in inappropriate or glib ways.

Whoever reads On the Edge of the Primeval Forest or the chapters in Schweitzer's autobiography dealing with his life in Africa, as if they were the sort of glib, humorous travelogue stories one finds in National Geographic, is missing a great deal.

Doubt that I, in particular, had ever been or would ever be more than a kind of glib, walking lie, made of shiny words.

Thiel writes in «Against Edenism» (June / July) with a glib optimism that masks the true danger of this arrogant and at the same time nihilistic movement:

Less persuasive, to me at least, is the claim that this probably continued until 1931, the year in which Lewis converted to Christianity (and would now think a relation with a married woman to be wrong) Wilson's way of making this point is, however, an instance of a very undesirable trait in his writing: the tendency to assert indirectly and to be glib while seeming to eschew it: «It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change, to adopt Christianity, merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs. Moore, whatever the nature of those relations had been.»

Douglas basically plays the same guy he played in WALL STREET and WONDER BOYS — a glib and....

When this is done, Deuteronomy's words are no longer simply glib promises of heaven - sent wealth for the righteous, but a daring attempt to interpret the history of his people in the light of God's concern for their obedience.

You're being awfully glib about your complicity in the death of human beings — and not potential humans either... they have all the traits of being human.

I note this with particular importance because one of the dangers, which, I hope, the ecumenical movement and the churches should avoid, is that of being «sucked» into the glib use of this word as part of the rhetoric of «political advocacy», or as a euphemism for things we do not like or have been opposed to in the past.

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.»

Indeed, the notion that Jackson wants to retreat to his cabin in Montana and eat berries is too glib.

THE SEEKERS Shopping for something snappy to one - up the neighbors at Schroon Lake next summer, two recruits in the army of new American boat buyers succumb to a salesman's glib take - it - for - a-spin attitude.

It's probably too glib to suggest there's irony in Hill facing the Cubs, who sold him for cash money.

IW never bettered 23 league goals in 8 seasons — filled his boots in cup comps a few seasons I know but the glib tag of a «30 goal a season» striker is stretching it.

None of the parents knew that their beloved and winning coach — this glib, engaging soul who had lived with and among them, who had so generously baby - sat their kids, taken the youngsters to movies and bought them expensive gifts — had undergone more than five years of treatment in two state mental hospitals for child molesting.

Just like AW has manipulated the AKBs with all the glib talk he has used over the years which has, in my opinion, poisoned Arsenal such that we now have a first rate stadium and a second rate football mentality.

He said he had decided to clam up after holding out in training camp, because «I didn't want to complicate things with the glib and witty Christensen at that point.

I in no way mean to sound glib about this, and if you are worried please consult with your doctor.

Glib and confident online, Wu came off as thoughtful and soft - spoken in person.

A fast and glib answer (and one raised at the conference) was that new platforms — especially F - 35 (but also the Royal Navy's T45) are now C4ISR assets in their own right — performing better in some respects than dedicated platforms — as well as having a kinetic attack function.

As a libertarian rightwinger, Carswell is interesting here because he has sophisticated, well - thought - out policies, many of them Ukip - ish, in ways that would leave Farage looking the glib prattler he really is.

Anti-gay rhetoric and glib dismissal of our basic humanity can no longer be countenanced — at any time or in any place.

Specifically, she was thinking about Gartner's hype cycle, a glib model cooked up by an IT research firm, in which every new technology ascends a «peak of inflated expectations,» sinks into a «trough of disillusionment,» then climbs the «slope of enlightenment» to reach a «plateau of productivity.»

We will know that the university system is in terminal decline when intellectual leadership gives way to a new generation of academic hustlers with expensive suits, university cars, mobile telephones and a glib line of sales talk.

I find the article, written in the cool, cosmopolitan style so adored by the New Yorker magazine, to be glib and mistaken in its underlying hypotheses.

Glib answers in the comments sections don't do them justice, but unfortunately, that's all I have time for these days.

Nick — don't mean to be glib here, but as much as I have faith in PHD improving your health, there still are some aspects of getting old that are inevitable.

We see this thing all the time, mainly with online daters in urban areas: the sharp, cynical, glib, sarcastic voice.

I am unfamiliar with Lister - Jones's previous work (she is best known for the sitcom «Life in Pieces»), but she's a compelling screen presence, on top of her achievements as a writer - director; her close - ups register glib resistance and genuine vulnerability, often in rapid succession.

The diary disappears, and Charlie joins a glib newspaper reporter (Donald Woods) and a photojournalist (Joan Marsh) in hunting down the killer.

What redeems the movie, and then some, is the soulful weariness of Clooney's performance, which is in some ways an earthier and less glib version of the go - go axeman from «Up In The Air.&raquin some ways an earthier and less glib version of the go - go axeman from «Up In The Air.&raquIn The Air.»

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.

«James White» gets up close and personal in often discomfiting ways, but it's never exploitative or glib.

A handful of coincidences result in the arrest of a mentally impaired statutory rapist (an unrestrained Del Toro), from whom a perfunctory confession is extracted (by Eckhart, the standard bearer of glib, beady - eyed bureaucratic malice).