Sentences with phrase «too glib»

Some of Savage's toughest critics are feminists who think he can be a bit too glib with his injunction to please our partners.

This article is way too glib and way too starry - eyed about marriage.

It seems too glib this time.

The dialogue is snappy, if way too glib, and the gunplay ranges from acceptable to quite good, but the game's initial setup is so preposterous that you find yourself wishing it were all staged on another planet or, at the very least, in some invented Middle Eastern city.

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.

And sure, maybe he drinks too much, and maybe he's a little too clever, a little too glib, but basically he's a coward.

It's a little too glib for me, but at its core are some fundamental and eminently sensible imperatives, not least of which is to let kids be kids.

The victim isn't sleazy enough to be funny, the violence is too glib to be serious, and there's, overall, a jarring divide occurring here.

Too glib and self - satisfied to count as a success, yet too personal to fully dismiss, Tusk — which features Fleetwood Mac's annoying coke - fueled march of the same name — is slippery as a seal.

If he erred on the punchier side, he might come off as too glib.

I'm tempted to say it stitches together a Frankenstein's patchwork of genre movies because it has no vision of its own, but that's too glib.

James Ponsoldt, who directed from a script by Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter, is a bit too glib to do justice to this material, but the young actors, especially Woodley, are quite fine.

The «traditions are important» line is funny, without being too glib (the «Jesus» and «Black Men» pieces mentioned are by David Sedaris, hardly a religious writer at all).

I mean, this sounds too glib to me.

«Not to be too glib, but we are not undergoing a zombie - volcano invasion,» he says.

Saying life isn't fair is too glib for my liking; «cultural happenings» are fairly trivial compared with a service (VBAC) that enables many women to avoid further surgery and have more children.

Is this too glib?

It's a little too glib to suggest that every postseason team that advances to at least an LDS has only a one - eighth chance of winning the World Series.

It's probably too glib to suggest there's irony in Hill facing the Cubs, who sold him for cash money.

It is disastrous ever to be too glib.

Indeed, the notion that Jackson wants to retreat to his cabin in Montana and eat berries is too glib.

If this is not too glib, Claiborne seems to suggest that we grade God's mercy on a curve.

He was also, no doubt, trying to avoid giving too glib an answer.

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.»

Not exact matches

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.»

«Her glib and superficial endorsement of evolution and its reconciliation with Christianity is all too common and all too irresponsible.»

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

Predictably, we find most of these too - glib profiles on OKCupid.

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.

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).

As an exercise in subversion Deadpool 2 doesn't quite achieve the same level of success as the first film, opting too often to undermine its genre staples by prefacing them with glib one - liners.

There's a light - hearted snappiness to the script, too, with Cruise's Nick valiantly staying as glib as he possibly can while being pursued across the Home Counties by an undead Egyptian sorceress.

But I, Tonya too often feels glib and glancing, holding the public responsible for many of the easy assumptions and narrative shortcuts the film itself indulges in while telling Harding's story.

March 15, 2018 • Max Winkler's tale of a teenager who uses sex to get revenge on a man who may or may not have assaulted her step - brother is a «glib character study» that tries too hard to shock.

In their glib self - confidence, the champions of that effort have refused to confront its costs and unintended consequences, and have been far too quick to silence skeptics by branding them blind defenders of the status quo (if not calling them outright racists).

That isn't meant to be glib; we keep finding ourselves debating that key distinction with people who argue that the external forces in a child's life represent obstacles too large for even great schools to overcome.

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

Like Alan Vega and the bad boys, too, he can be thoroughly glib and piercingly clever at the same time.

The 2008 Biennial can feel glib, cold, confused, and way too spread out, not unlike a New Yorker's view of LA.

In reality, I felt her paintings were too easy and glib in their mottled flesh, and just not serious enough about the challenge of depicting the human body with blobs of pigment on canvas.

The relationship to painting is referenced in glib fashion; the associative pun to taste — both in its sensory and cultural definitions — is too facile, too direct.

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.»

Be careful about supplying glib, cliché answers here, too.