"Leave to Remain" is far more simplistic, occasionally risking glibness.
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His weapon is comic derision, his tragic flaw is glibness.
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In its glibness it shows contempt for Gray as a journalist.
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In that moment, Lindsay's glibness cuts Paul much like her knife recently did.
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Profound questions — what he calls "the big potatoes" — are treated with intolerable glibness.
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They never let us forget that their chief superpowers are glibness and ego.
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But there's almost a glibness about the way we send people away to prison.
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It's got the Coens' fat men, slapstick and glibness, slathered with Mr. Clooney's moral piety.
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To critics, Ms. Omar had a point, even if it was expressed with unfortunate glibness.
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But when the movie takes its turn past glib into grim, a residue of glibness remains.
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That sort of glibness, in turn, is likely to give already-ascendant Democratic ideas a boost.
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Yet this latest incarnation of "Torch Song," directed by Moisés Kaufman, finds an irresistibly compelling gravity beneath the glibness.
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The film glosses over vast segments of his career, zipping from his student years to his superstardom with casual glibness.
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Notice also how Trump, with typical glibness, implies there was some rush to judgment, while completely ignoring what the coroner said.
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A downside of this sort of oblique critique is that it threatens to become the moral glibness it means to indict.
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Which perhaps accounts for the occasional glibness in this book that I, for one, found either silly or startling or offensive.
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As such an oversight might suggest, the biography as a whole settles for breeziness and even glibness when close analysis is needed.
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Yet in a movie as happy to resurrect characters as rub them out, nothing is of consequence, and the glibness grows numbing.
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"She had an assertiveness, a glibness, and a prodigious bad faith that promised a fine career in the media," a journalist later said.
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That glibness and callousness eventually depart Khodorkovsky, after immense personal sacrifice, as he confronts what his country has become and his own complicity.
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The dreamy detachment that's a hallmark of the cinematic style of the French director Bertrand Bonello sometimes invites accusations of glibness, and worse.
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And because the glibness of the dialogue matches that of the character, there's a feeling of momentary pleasurable alignment whenever Mr. Kudisch is speaking.
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BoJack is haunted by the hole in his life where his parents' love was supposed to be, and he deflects this pain with glibness.
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The show was created by Patrick Somerville, who used to write for "The Leftovers," and "Maniac" shares that show's combination of intensity and savvy glibness.
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Even if not, the engaging cast — especially Yoo, Chen and Katigbak in the better-written roles — makes up for any authorial glibness with completely grounded performances.
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"Assassins" opened Off Broadway at Playwrights Horizons just as the Persian Gulf war was beginning, and critics recoiled at its perceived glibness in a moment of national crisis.
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The movie insists on a breezy optimism that skirts glibness, then doubles down on it with a having-it-all finale that's as ridiculous as it is nervy.
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Having narrated us into a moral and emotional box canyon, Keret then plucks himself out with a glibness that is beneath his talents as a writer and a humanist.
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They include characteristics like glibness and superficial charm, emotional shallowness, unwillingness to accept responsibility for actions, a tendency to boredom, promiscuous sexual behavior, cunning/manipulative tendencies, impulsivity, and irresponsibility.
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At least in Klobuchar's case, the rhetorical thrusts won't be feigned; in recent debates she has hardly concealed her disdain for what she regards as Buttigieg's glibness and shallow experience.
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" Writing in The New Yorker, John Updike parodied the glibness of Life and also a certain type of male me-too attitude by writing "The American Man: What of Him?
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And despite gorgeous interiors and impressive backdrops, the show as a whole doesn't have the sweep or grandeur that would let you overlook the glibness and superficiality of the script.
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Other times it leads to self-righteousness or glibness, as with the wonky musical instruments made by Guillermo Galindo, a Mexican composer, incorporating tubes salvaged from a refugee camp near Kassel.
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The filmmakers were in a great position to contrast the difficult reality of brain science with the glibness of these predictions, so the lack of skepticism here feels like a missed opportunity.
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The show's glibness is an important part of its political satireTo call it "shallow" just because the characters aren't doing hard drugs or processing their trauma via self-destruction is a misstep.
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But his vagueness was different -- he was trying to express ideas; he just couldn't do it, partly because he lacks the polished glibness of the professional politician, partly because he hasn't done the reading.
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Blessed with a community organizer's glibness, like many a demagogue Obama consolidated his power by exploiting popular prejudices, making false claims, and arousing passions and emotions with promises he would not and could not keep.
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Meanwhile, his own "childhood ability to get ahead of myself and reason to apocalyptic ends" he sees reinvented in his son, Darragh, as a "kind of apocalyptic riffing," the media-age glibness of the young.
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It takes talent, yes, but also a certain amount of glibness to give the adult men lyrics like "Year by year the boy learns his place" and to turn Jahandar's turbulent interior monologues into credible song.
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Clinton and her supporters saw a nightmare in Mr. Trump's apparent lack of interest in longstanding international arrangements, his glibness about the use of nuclear weapons and the unrepentant white nationalism of some of his fans.
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In her Instagram stories, Kim's glibness about anorexia made a statement — regardless of her intentions or lack thereof — about thinness being more desirable than health, and reinforced the idea that beauty is worth harming yourself over.
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But Hollis's glibness makes clear that her "sisters" are only such if they look like her, share her padded bank account (and her priorities), and don't venture too far into the real and wrenching difficulties of life.
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This is a distinctive and compelling use of appropriation — not the repurposing of an existing work in the interests of glibness or irony, but a scooping-up of communal gray matter that is by definition greater than oneself.
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Gene Page / AMC Bryan: There's something about the glibness of the Hollywood Forever cemetery screening — and the baseball-bat emoji that Twitter rolled out — that's really offensive when viewed in light of the events this episode depicts, and how it depicts them.
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When I first saw "The Clan," at the Venice Film Festival last September, I was impressed by its insight and bothered by what I took as a certain glibness, a too-easy accommodation of moral horror to the imperatives of the thriller genre.
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Mishra's book has flaws, like its overreliance on Rousseau, but there is no "glibness" to his statement that "most people have found the notions of individualism and social mobility to be unrealizable in practice," even in the United States, where mobility rates have fallen.
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A particularly toxic brew of glibness and graphic violence, this Netflix throwaway, directed by the music video maestro Jonas Akerlund, stars the usually trustworthy Mads Mikkelsen as a notorious hit man, the Black Kaiser, who decides he is ready to retire and ruminate on his sins.
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Khar's voice can take on a certain glibness, prone to simplifying complex situations into a few trite words ("I had struggled with the urge to kill myself — to cut myself out of my own skin — for many years"; her mom's boyfriend is "the father figure I needed, the kind my dad was just not capable of being").
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The lyrics ridiculously and perfectly convey the type of sexual frustration that plagues 16-year-olds, with a creative enthusiasm typically conveyed by a grade-school art class (this is a compliment); for maximum glibness, The 1975 are the closest thing to INXS for a generation set up to potentially mistake Michael Hutchence in name alone for the guy who played Steve Jobs in that movie last year.
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Kent Brockman, Springfield's principal news presenter illustrates the glibness, amplification, and sensationalism of broadcast journalism. His tabloidization methods include making people look guilty without trial, and invasion of privacy by setting up camp outside people's homes.
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No "matter how many meaningful considerations of mortality" are thrown his way; through the screenplay, Jennings "doesn't have a chance" against Smith. On the contrary, Slant Magazine's Elise Nakhnikian said the film is all about the "fastidious, somewhat timid, and reclusive playwright Alan Bennett", and stated the film's "annoying glibness is neatly summarized" by the line: "In life, going downhill is an uphill job".
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Esquire writer Charlie Pierce replied, "the glibness with which her husband and her defenders toss off a 'mere' six months in federal prison, low-security or not, is a further indication that something is seriously out of whack with the way our prosecutors think these days."Pierce, Charles P. (January 17, 2013). "Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz", Esquire. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
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This comment triggered some criticism; Esquire writer Charlie Pierce replied, "the glibness with which her husband and her defenders toss off a 'mere' six months in federal prison, low-security or not, is a further indication that something is seriously out of whack with the way our prosecutors think these days."Pierce, Charles P. (January 17, 2013). "Still More About The Death Of Aaron Swartz", Esquire. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
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There is also research into individual differences in female resistance to mate guarding. A recent study by Abell and Brewer (2016) has focused on Machiavellianism. They found that women high in this trait are more likely to resist mate guarding attempts and use covert tactics to do so. They suggest that this reflects the characteristics of machivellianism – using glibness and manipulation to get what is wanted and it is argued that this is their way of controlling their partners.
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Liu's book was generally well received by book reviewers. Writing for The New York Times Book Review, writer Gary Krist praised The Accidental Asian because it is "enriched by elements beyond polemics", and Liu's work "covers a lot of territory without succumbing to glibness". Romesh Ratnesar, in a review for Time magazine, praised Liu's balanced approach toward racial topics. In the process, he "sacrifices depth for breadth", as exemplified in his discussion on the links between Chinese and Jewish cultures.
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Solow tried to break their contract and buy the place himself. Years of litigation ensued. Dreier filed suits in state courts in Manhattan and Suffolk County, in federal court in both the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, in bankruptcy court in Florida, and in several corresponding appellate courts. "He had a certain glibness, this certainty that he could get away with that which other lawyers couldn't", says Feldstein's lawyer, Kevin Smith, whom Dreier named as a defendant in one of the suits.
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The author of the book Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation, Chris Turner, said that "if the institution of the News has a single iconic face on The Simpsons, it's Brockman's" and that "in Brockman's journalism, we see some of the modern news media's ugliest biases", of which he says are glibness, amplification, and sensationalism. MSN called Brockman one of the worst TV news anchors. "You Kent Always Say What You Want" was well received by critics. IGN called it the second best episode of the season.
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Father Farley, as written, is rather too self-satisfied and facile for the priesthood, qualities better emphasized in Milo O'Shea's stage performance than in Mr. Lemmon's on film, since the character's glibness comes too close to the actor's usual screen persona. And Mr. Ivanek, beginning on a note of intelligence and severity, later has moments of surprisingly callowness, even petulance. But the stars work together very effectively, making the story's progress believable as each of their characters evolves into a better man. Mass Appeal doesn't have to tug too hard at the audience's heartstrings to arrive at its simple and satisfying resolution.
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The elders are afraid that because he killed an Egyptian guard, bringing retribution on his people, he will get them into further trouble. One man expresses hope that the new idea of a single God will prove stronger than Egypt's multiple gods, stronger than Pharaoh's grip. The people reiterate this hope, looking at the arriving Moses and Aron, who keep changing roles so that it is difficult to distinguish one from the other. Trying to explain how God can be perceived only within oneself, Moses grows frustrated by Aron's glibness, which seems to weaken his idea.
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In most of his appearances, Brockman seems more interested in entertaining the viewers than informing them of real news. In "Homer Loves Flanders" Brockman calls the United States Army a "kill-bot factory" in a news broadcast. Mirkin said this was a joke the staff "particularly loved to do" because it pointed out how negative and mean-spirited news broadcasts can be, and how they are seemingly "always trying to scare everybody" by creating panic and depression. Turner said that "in Brockman's journalism, we see some of the modern news media's ugliest biases", of which he says are glibness, amplification, and sensationalism.
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The serial received mixed reviews from television critics. Michael Gower of the Daily Mail wrote a short favourable review of the first episode, claiming that the ending "must have delighted the hearts of the Telegoons who followed". A reviewer in the Daily Worker stated that they "intend following closely" to the show, describing the ending as "satisfying". Variety felt that the script "suffered from a glibness of characterisations which didn't carry the burden of belief", but praised the "effective camerawork", noting that the show "will impress if it decides to establish a firm base in realism".
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He established various specialist departments to manage output in numerous industries and reorganised the structure of the Board. (subscription required) However, despite previous successes with unions, his negotiations were ineffective. Writing to Leader of the House of Commons and future Prime Minister Bonar Law in January 1919, Lloyd George described Stanley as having "all the glibness of Runciman and that is apt to take in innocent persons like you and me ... Stanley, to put it quite bluntly, is a funk, and there is no room for funks in the modern world."Lloyd George letter to Bonar Law, 29 January 1919 – quoted in .
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He is too clever an actor to be allowed to go on in this path without warning."The Times review of Patience , 5 April 1907 Workman redeemed himself in Iolanthe: "The Lord Chancellor of Mr. Workman is a masterpiece, and the whole audience were of one mind as to the double encore for the dancing trio, and the 'Nightmare' song was sung with marvellous glibness." The Times review of Iolanthe , 12 June 1907 In Yeomen, when Workman was playing Jack Point, in one scene he stood between the ladies portraying Elsie Maynard and Phoebe Meryll. Workman wrote: "I used to kiss the cheek of first one and then the other, quickly and repeatedly, and Sir William thought there was too much kissing for a Savoy audience.
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For the preacher Odo, the cat represented those who know the single scheme, to "spring into heaven", while the fox stood for "attorneys, casuists, tricksters" and others with a "bagful of tricks". The interpretation in the 13th century Gesta Romanorum is very similar, making a distinction between "the simple men and women who know but one craft, that is to call to God", and those that make a living by the glibness of their tongues. The moral supplied by Marie de France is different, though perhaps complementary: that a wise man would be able to detect a liar, however plausibly he talked. Berechiah ha-Nakdan followed her by including the tale as number 94 of his hundred Fox Fables in Hebrew.
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The New Series had been advertised with the following message: « Le complément de la Légende des siècles sera prochainement publié, à moins que la fin de l'auteur n'arrive avant la fin du livre. » ("The conclusion to the Legend will be published shortly, provided that it is not preceded by the conclusion to the author.") On 9 June 1883 the fifth and last tome of La Légende des Siècles was published with the subtitle série complémentaire (see 1883 in poetry). Critics who claimed that the "anticlericalism" and "glibness" were evidence of the bitterness of age were mistaken: in fact, Hugo's cerebral edema of June 1878 had already essentially put an end to his work as a writer, and most of the contents dated from long before.
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In May 2012, the association criticised a headline and story on the front page of The Sun mocking newly appointed England football manager Roy Hodgson's rhotacism. Commenting on the media coverage of Ed Balls' stumbling over his response in the House of Commons on 5 December 2012 to the Autumn Statement by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Norbert Lieckfeldt said: "The experience of a lifetime of stammering gives an edge to a personality, something to rub against, and I'd prefer that over smooth glibness any day. This is also the advice we at the British Stammering Association would give to anyone who stammers who is considering a career in politics". Under the new leadership of Jane Powell, the charity launched a major new campaign, Stamma, in 2019 which aimed to give the public an insight into what it means to stammer, dispel stereotypes and encourage people to take stammering seriously.
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"She was a street-smart dance queen with the sexy allure of Marilyn Monroe, the coy iciness of Marlene Dietrich and the cutting and protective glibness of a modern Mae West". Although the album received mixed reviews, Taraborrelli believed that the "mere fact that at the time of its release so many couldn't resist commenting on the record was a testament to the continuous, growing fascination with Madonna ... Every important artist has at least one album in his or her career whose critical and commercial success becomes the artist's magic moment; for Madonna, Like a Virgin was just such a defining moment." Chris Smith, author of 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music, believed that it was with Like a Virgin that Madonna was able to steal the spotlight towards herself. She asserted her sexuality as only male rock stars had done before, moving well beyond the limited confines of being a pop artist, to becoming a focal point for nationwide discussions of power relationships in the areas of sex, race, gender, religion, and other divisive social topics.
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