Sentences with phrase «of glib»

This summary of the glib comebacks offered at leftist cult - science - fraudster sites is notable for one main thing.

What could clear this up in a hurry — and end some of the glib assertions of industry groups — would be some surveying in shale - gas country using an infrared camera.

Who better to sing you a genteel bedtime story than master of dark arts David Shrigley and king of glib, Arab Strap co-founder Malcolm Middleton?

Altogether he seems out of place in our moment of glib - handed painting and cool narratives.

Sensual, visceral and exuberant, the show is an oasis in a desert of glib irony.»

I always thought Pop Art was just the return of Realism in a kind of glib disguise.

I never manage to be as clear as you on this subject, but tend to get myself tangled in irritation when I read the sort of glib misleading stuff that you have so brilliantly unpicked.

The buzzwords kings had their 5 - years worth of glib soapbox material!

Each time international tests of student achievement are released, there is a parade of glib commentators explaining why we should not pay much attention to the generally poor performance of U.S. students.

But fundamentally this is the sort of glib, sucrose fantasy that reminded me a little of David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button or Jean - Pierre Jeunet's similarly icky and self - admiring The Young And Prodigious TS Spivet.

Brolin's team of Untouchables includes charming ladies» man Gosling (who has finally reached the level of glib self - parody), weasel - faced electronics whiz Giovanni Ribisi, hot - headed Anthony Mackie, and sharpshooter Robert Patrick, whose performance as an anachronistic cowboy feels like a feature - length homage to Sam Elliott.

«The very horrible complexities of racism and intolerance are simplified in ways inherent to many a Hollywood and faith - based film, all in the aim of glib uplift that may salve the individual spirit but solves absolutely nothing.»

The Emmy - winning HBO movie is the latest from that past master of glib historical romance, Philip Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being).

The criticisms of its glib race attitudes are valid, but there is a great deal to recommend, such as its foul - mouthed comedy and seasoned performers (Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell and Peter Dinklage).

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.

But Kesslee, the movie's arch-villain (played by the original movie punk, Malcolm McDowell), brought me back to the facetious S and M rhetoric of the glib and cutesy Barbarella.

Confidently directed and elegantly designed, this smart drama is sensitive, sympathetic and refreshingly free of glib moralizing.

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).

Think of the Deadpool franchise, then, as charter member of Glib»n' Smarmy.

The instinct that told Mr Cameron - correctly - that the Tories were projecting themselves to the nation as moralistic bigots should now inform him that they are coming across as soft and complacent, just at a time when we are attracted to Mr Brown for his lack of glib style.»

A cadre of glib undergrads assumed the role of junior pundits.

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

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.

The question of just what is «God» has taxed theologians for thousands of years; what Weinberg reminds us is to be wary of glib definitions.

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.

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.

If a broker says something a little glib, and the evidence doesn't support it, that will further deteriorate and accelerate the crisis of confidence.

Amid unprecedented wealth, the very existence of hungry children is a cause for shame, not glib self - satisfaction.

At the risk of sounding glib, markets rose despite bad news from UBS, because those investors left are optimists.

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 Gay Divorcee (1934), a Fred Astaire — Ginger Rogers comedy, was condemned by the Legion for its glib portrayal of, yes, divorce.

My quest for truth — with all of its searching, its tears, its research, and its late - night prayers — had been deemed «glib and superficial» by someone who didn't even know me.

Responding to a piece I wrote for the Washington Post about my journey from young earth creationism to evolutionary creationism, Mohler told readers that my «glib and superficial endorsement of evolution and its reconciliation with Christianity is all too common and all to irresponsible.»

The stock distinction between the Enlightenment's twins — communism is violently coercive while liberalism allows freedom of thought — is glib.

The glib phrase barely begins to convey the experience of handing everything to God.

Hugh Mann: Does your ignorant glib comment about judgment get you out of jury duty?

Nor is the problem that so many people rattle off the golden rule without trying to live by it, like the scribes and Pharisees whom Jesus criticized on the grounds that «they say, and do not»; probably glib rattlers - off of the revised rule could be expected to fail as frequently to practice what they preach.

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:

And Martin, yes we should persevere and not give new believers the impression «there is no fight of faith» and «we do nt have to do our part» by a glib statement «once saved always saved».

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.»

Abu Bakr, Umar, and Abu Ubaydah, with glib tongues and skillful speeches, weakened the position of their rivals.

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.

The biblical perspective sounds a clear warning against the glib acceptance of the «global village.»

It must have seemed to him another example of a foolish attempt to tidy up a messy universe with a glib and unlikely formula.

I have put the case here as strongly as possible because it is a great danger to the concerns both of religion and of psychology to give a glib and simple interpretation of their relationship.

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.

What is Kamlah's glib self - commitment to the «All - One» compared with the profundity of the Attic tragedians and Nietzsche?