Word: glib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a rare individual indeed who could enjoy listening, on a series of Tuesday afternoons, to what, in my view, is becoming excessively glib and insufficiently examined rhetoric concerning 'confidence.' 'authority.' and 'legitimacy,' without regard to certain other matters of some moment," he said...
While Ford minimized the political reasons behind his resignation yesterday, one section of his statement hit on the key to this changed relation. His reference to the "excessively glib and insufficiently examined rhetoric concerning confidence, authority, and legitimacy" was a clear allusion to often bitter Faculty meetings of last Spring and this Fall...
...problem" of inconsistency of character, which arises particularly in Cressida's and Pandarus' case, was dealt with by Barton in sexual terms. Cressida was initially innocent yet boundlessly lustful, and her night with Troilus initiated her into a physicality which dictated her subsequent falseness. Pandarus was a glib, leering yet friendly uncle, whose skill in sexual innuendo helped him to live a vicarious sexual life through those around...
...Crowd 19 years ago, Americans were all too well adjusted to the gray-flannel goals of "success." That is no longer so. David Riesman, who wrote the book with two colleagues and added its title to the American idiom, now finds that after two decades "the earlier tendency toward glib self-satisfaction" has been succeeded by "an atmosphere of what seems to me extravagant self-criticism...
...would be a rare individual indeed who could enjoy listening, on a series of Tuesday afternoons, to what. in my view, is becoming excessively glib and insufficiently examined rhetoric concerning 'confidence,' authority and 'legitimacy,' without much regard to certain other matters of some moment, including responsibility and even, in some circumstances, a degree of sacrifice. It would be a still rarer individual who relished parliamentary debates explicitly, or more commonly implicitly, concerned what his own alleged qualities of mind and character...