Sentences with phrase «into glib»

One thing that does worry me is the oversimplification of complex issues into glib one - liners.

Science is routinely divorced from its context, and turned into glib soundbytes that journalists, politicians and celebrities reproduce, largely to elevate themselves.

The title of Deborah Kass's exhibition at Paul Kasmin Gallery, MORE Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times, is enough to clue the viewer into her glib brand of post-everything art.

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

Why turn real - life events into a glib metaphor?

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.

Not exact matches

The argument of the proponents of trickle - down economics is straightforward and glib: if top income earners are taxed less then they will invest more into businesses, infrastructure and equity markets.

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.»

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

This is no glib gag laughing at the idea of a man / machine romance, however, but an earnest inquiry into what makes relationships tick.

There's always an undercutting humour so we don't take this tale of malformed children (a callously glib McGuffin) too seriously: as in the scene in which western - writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), the naive, philistine vehicle for Greene's anti-Americanism, gets dragooned into talking to a British Council literary meeting, a direct crib from The Thirty - Nine Steps.

They're not glib and don't fall easily into the cliches of remorse and redemption.

The three form a gently deranged ersatz clan, turning «Wilson,» for a while, into a flaky version of that Sundance staple, the dysfunctional - family comedy, complete with glib scenes that mock the «normalcy» of the girl's adoptive parents (Cheryl Hines and Bruce Bohne).

They bring a verisimilitude to a story that does not restrict itself to mere realism, instead diving into a third act confrontation that spirals into surreal sights and violence that manages to unsettle in a desensitized, glib genre.

In all honesty, you won't get many deep insights into the nature of filmmaking here (after all, Paul Weitz mentions here that they intentionally eschewed any fancy directing maneuvers), but the guys obviously had a blast making the film, and that comes through as they watch the film again and make comments that are amusingly glib (to say the least).

Like a pair of murderous Eddie Haskells, Peter and Paul (BradyCorbett and Michael Pitt) politely call on the Farbers to borrow eggs; their unanticipated visit escalates step by slippery step into a takeover fueled by their glib sophistries and propensity for violence.

But if you like Vaughn's glib charm and flinty sweetness, you'll enjoy seeing him con the elves into doing his work and pressure his pushover brother (played by Paul Giamatti as a pussycat of a Santa Claus) for a loan.

Not to be glib, but pricing is an oddity of social science and I'll save the deep dive into Veblen Goods and pricing theories for another column (seriously, that's a column).

Like many artists of that time, Ding's earliest venture into abstraction was a personal act of rebellion against the earthy tones and glib smoothness of Russian socialist realism, a figurative style that had heavily influenced the propagandistic art of the revolution.

Falling into the realm of logos and corporate design, for example, Sarah Morris's dully inoffensive Olympic ring painting 2028.07 (Rings)(2008) and Peter Halley's glib neo-geo Auto Zone (1992) fail to rise above the models they are critiquing.

First of all, it is not a matter of my analysis showing that Venus and Earth are «even» in absorbed solar energy (I won't even go into your failure to take account of the two planets» different distances from the Sun, with your glib «seven times»).

Wacko Jones had a trip to England and thought it was glib doing a kiddy job on the messenger by getting his ABC propagandists to inserted this disgraceful M Mann's hockey stick into the Durkin chart.