Sentences with phrase «with glib»

I urge you to click over to check out the list, but here's their list with my glib analysis and completely subjective green grade.

First of all, it is not a matter of my analysis showing that Venus and Earth are «even» in absorbed solar energy (I won't even go into your failure to take account of the two planets» different distances from the Sun, with your glib «seven times»).

Later he forms the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, or ROCI, with glib posters and vague intentions.

Unlike many books reflecting the contemporary street scene, this one is more than just a pat situation with a glib resolution; it's filled with surprising twists and turns that continue to the end.

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.

«I, Tonya,» with its glib, flashy tone, wants to have it both ways: It wants us to sympathize with Harding, who unapologetically tells her story in I'm - over-it flashback, and to laugh at her — even as she endures physical abuse.

But the film, with its glib, flashy tone, wants to have it both ways: It wants us to sympathize with Harding, who unapologetically tells her story in I'm - over-it flashback, and to laugh at her — even as she endures physical abuse.

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

Landis has shown some wit and imagination with his past screenplays for «American Ultra» and «Mr. Right,» but the script for «Bright» — reportedly rewritten heavily by Ayer — is laden with glib and corny attempts to reference real - world racial animus.

The three form a gently deranged ersatz clan, turning «Wilson,» for a while, into a flaky version of that Sundance staple, the dysfunctional - family comedy, complete with glib scenes that mock the «normalcy» of the girl's adoptive parents (Cheryl Hines and Bruce Bohne).

But, as in his script for American Beauty, he puts the screws to the rest of the characters with a glib comic flip, and his direction only compounds the cartoonish characterizations.

If you paid close attention, you would have noticed Dr. Greger didn't challenge either of those findings, but rather dismissed them with a glib, «but is that because, or despite, their white rice consumption?»

People like Livingstone and Toynbee will always answer a question on welfare fraud by responding with a glib soundbite stating that they are more concerned with Goldman Sachs bonuses, or Lord Ashcroft's tax arrangements.

Brown comes back strong, responding to a Cameron joke about him not knowing the difference between fiscal and monetary policy with some glib headmasterly tones and a couple of counter-accusations.

He said he had decided to clam up after holding out in training camp, because «I didn't want to complicate things with the glib and witty Christensen at that point.

Your angst obviously stems from the fact that some may want to disagree with your glib, monotonous, often unnecessarily vicious, one - dimensional view of Ozil.

With its glib presentation and theological presumption, The Shack is easy to dismiss as a work of Christian art.

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

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

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:

The People's Podium: pairing beautiful, reader - sourced photographs with glib, Tyee - sourced commentary.

Not exact matches

In an interview with Vox's Ezra Klein, Zuckerberg called Cook's comments «extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth.»

Liturgy has often become shallow, mawkish and glib so that it appears more like a children's party than an attempt to worship God with real sincerity and depth.

The issue with them, he says, is not so much that they're false, but rather that sometimes they are used in inappropriate or glib ways.

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.»

Celebrities don't just tweet glib little quips or take filtered brunch pics anymore; they speak out against issues, injustice or politics they don't agree with.

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.

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.»

I heard them when Al Mohler dismissed me as «glib and irresponsible» for suggesting that perhaps Christianity is compatible with evolution.

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?

Once again, atheists have shown that while they are facile and glib with parlor constructs, they refuse to objectively examine their own fallacies.

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

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

None of the parents knew that their beloved and winning coach — this glib, engaging soul who had lived with and among them, who had so generously baby - sat their kids, taken the youngsters to movies and bought them expensive gifts — had undergone more than five years of treatment in two state mental hospitals for child molesting.

Charismatic, glib and young, Wallace has all the characteristics NASCAR desperately craves as it attempts to replace the star power it lost with Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Danica Patrick, and Tony Stewart all recently retiring.

Just like AW has manipulated the AKBs with all the glib talk he has used over the years which has, in my opinion, poisoned Arsenal such that we now have a first rate stadium and a second rate football mentality.

Glib draws with Augsburg and RB Leipzig have followed, and a 3 - 2 win over Eintracht Frankfurt was again largely down to Batshuayi, who registered four of the side's five second - half shots.

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

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

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.

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.

Gingrich and Romney want to get rid of bilingual ballots: «Yet their glib demand for English - only ballots would require amending the Voting Rights Act and doing away with hard - won legal requirements that have existed for decades.

«I don't want to be glib and say no, this has nothing to do with — I think anybody who's been through what I have been through, sure you want redemption.

First, the good news is that, as a scientific or engineering job seeker, you don't need to be as glib or comfortable with self - promotion as a sales rep does.

The reviewers for those publications were evidently pleased with the books message «environmental problems are not as bad as we've been told, and things are mostly getting better» but they evidently lacked the background or the inclination to find the flaws beneath the surface of Lomborgs glib and citation - strewn presentation.

We will know that the university system is in terminal decline when intellectual leadership gives way to a new generation of academic hustlers with expensive suits, university cars, mobile telephones and a glib line of sales talk.

We see this thing all the time, mainly with online daters in urban areas: the sharp, cynical, glib, sarcastic voice.

I am unfamiliar with Lister - Jones's previous work (she is best known for the sitcom «Life in Pieces»), but she's a compelling screen presence, on top of her achievements as a writer - director; her close - ups register glib resistance and genuine vulnerability, often in rapid succession.