Sentences with phrase «making glib»

They were more interested in making glib debating points than truly engaging with the issues at hand.

It's a phenomenal talent, but one that betrays him on The Mother by making glib the film's subject matter.

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.

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

Make a glib assertion with no substance, though a partial grain of truth and see who runs with it.

Not exact matches

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

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.»

Then yesterday I had the displeasure of reading this piece by a mother who is so glib about her CIO experience and so focused on her own experiences without a second thought to her child, it made me feel physically ill.

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.

Denis Villeneuve's gleaming thriller is arguably one of the year's best - made movies, but it's so glib and superficial in its treatment of the war on drugs — and the collateral damage left in its wake — as to border on exploitation.

Joe Dante's a great filmmaker, but I wish he had made his return to features with a movie better than Burying The Ex, a glib, EC Comics - influenced horror comedy that would probably work better as a short chapter in an anthology film.

The dialogue rings of the glib exchanges that made Singer's previous «West Wing» episodes perfect for pizza and beer, although it is hard to know to blame the shallow writing or the stars» perfunctory performances.

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

I'm sure that statement just made a few heads explode, but I'm not being glib.

We're a long way from McDonagh's last film, Seven Psychopaths, which was a gleefully glib (albeit frequently hilarious) meta cartoon crime caper, like what Charlie Kaufman might make if assigned to write a Tarantino knockoff with his fictional brother Donald.

Slasher films traditionally exploit Freudian schema, whether they're aware of it or not, so it makes sense that a film thumbing its nose, would reiterate so glib a glorification.

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.

With his glib comments throughout the movie while showing that Cruise smile, makes Reacher feel even more unlikable her0.

Paul Schrader, a man who knows a thing or two about sex, guilt, and self - destruction, made a fairly engaging biopic about Crane called Auto Focus, starring a perfectly cast Greg Kinnear, who captured both Crane's glib charm and his stormy depths.

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).

Sooner or later a film was bound to make 9/11 a glib plot point and with REIGN OVER ME, so it has come to pass.

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).

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?

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.

BOTTOM LINE Jocular gun violence and «colorful» characters make for an amusing but glib action - comedy.

In the absence of a narrative that makes much sense or seems to add up to much, it might be that Desplechin just wants to explore the themes above that makes it sound so glib.

For someone who spent so much time excoriating her opponents for giving short shrift to the complexities of the arguments that she was making for charter schools, I was quite surprised to see such a glib denunciation of vouchers.

I made that choice intentionally, though it entailed certain risks, the first, quite simply, that places of such celebrity may upstage characters and events; the second, that they will make the story seem superficial or glib, like the escapist fiction you buy at the airport to distract yourself from the boredom and anxiety of flying.

Don't be fooled by glib words, shops are there to make money for their owners.

I'm sure that statement just made a few heads explode, but I'm not being glib.

Thus, it's a really glib mischaracterisation to make such statements about «CO2 obsessions».

Returning a recent spate of critiques of Facebook made by Apple CEO Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg said Cook's argument was «extremely glib» and «not aligned...

Returning a recent spate of critiques of Facebook made by Apple CEO Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg said Cook's argument was «extremely glib» and «not aligned with the truth,» and took a dig at Apple's high prices.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at comments made by Tim Cook last week, describing the Apple CEO's views as «extremely glib».

Meanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg continue to throw barbs at one another in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, with the latter branding previous remarks made by Cook as «extremely glib».