Sentences with phrase «less glib»

To do so is to take back a measure of responsibility, too, to become, at the very least, a little less glib in one's pronouncements.»

Every example here seems to simultaneously accept a dictate of order (a quilt does have to cover the bed and warm its inhabitants) and to invent a new graphic logic: less glib, more authentic, more dependable than the old rote geometries.

Superbly acted with a deliciously creepy score from Michael Abels that ingeniously mixes up Swahili vocals (another ghostly warning echoing from the past) with Bernard Herrmann-esque suspense, the movie is a treat for the intellect, gut and funny bone: 12 Years a Slave meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, yet infinitely less glib, more ghoulishly delightful and more endlessly surprising than that description implies.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

Whatever your politics, it's a glib and less - than - original movie punch - line.

In lesser hands this character could have been glib or off - putting.

In a lesser filmmakers hands this would seem glib and unbearably trite but Linklater is an old pro at integrating pop culture riffs without being too on the nose (last year's Everybody Wants Some with its «My Sharona» opening being a fine example).

He's also pretty funny when it comes to the pretensions of the rock publications, which are made to seem scarcely less self - infatuated and glib than the rock stars.

The more we learn about his plan, though, the more that Washington's performance seems a bad - to - the - bone stunt, a glib dabble in malevolence; it's less character study than career move.

Described by many a critic as ««Michael Clayton» on acid,» a description that makes it sound a good deal more glib and less beautiful than it really is, it's a Haneke - cool deconstruction of office ethics and politics centered on the mental unraveling of a business in - house psychologist — yet another star turn from the extraordinary Mathieu Amalric.