Sentences with phrase «sounding glib»

First, you could come off as sounding glib, even if you're quite sincere.

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

That may sound glib, but these days, it's a serious question.

«I hate to sound glib here, but... we were due for a decline.

That may sound glib, but I don't mean it at all glibly.

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

To a woman panicked about her ability to have a child, a «chill out» directive can sound glib and insensitive.

While some of these questions may sound glib, they're meant to demonstrate some of what you'll need to know to avoid dating forever.

It may sound glib, but Romney's assertion about the cat was the first time I realised that film criticism didn't have to be a job which involved attempting to understand a filmmaker on his or her own terms.

It sounds glib to say, but whenever an actor or actress plays someone afflicted with something serious everyone immediately thinks Oscar.

If all this sounds glib, often it is.

That might sound glib, but it describes the simple logic at work in Alicia Beach's recent projects.

Not exact matches

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

It sounds clever Doc but it is just a glib decoration of your previous error.

Billy Clarke sounds settled, and that is not a glib assessment with which to begin.

The glib pseudo-empathetic copy sounded condescending to me and reads as if it were written by a young single man or a very young Woman trying hard to be irreverent and relatable.

I guess I've never been exactly comfortable with how glib it sounds - how completely unequal to the task of describing that transformative day when we first saw your beautiful face.

Though that is kinda hard to fit that on a glib poster or a sound bite on a public health commercial.

«Actually, I think fairness sounds a bit glib now and is sort of used too much.»

I mean, this sounds too glib to me.

You are exactly the same as the studios and filmmakers you attack, because you «re constantly dumbing yourself down in favor of sounding «hip / cool / witty / sarcastic / glib or snide».

That description may sound like a glib dismissal, but it's actually an appreciation of the film's wit: it is actually quite smart and mature as well as clever and entertaining.

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.

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.

Sure, it sounds like a glib promotional line, but we had several people come up to us during the initial drive experience and ask if this was a new Lexus.

Without wishing to sound too glib, I had a similar sensation while sliding through the dilapidated parts of Sunderland and that corner of North East England.

Glib as that may sound, too, I mean it all as a compliment.