Word: glib
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Although most people who purchase these McMansions may not be consciously striving after the past or showing off their wealth, architecture exerts a powerful influence on human behavior. These McMansions seem likely to nurture disturbing attitudes of elitism and a glib sense of superiority among their owners. But the effects of these architectural monstrosities likely do not end at their owners’ front doors...
...early days of the proceedings, Hussein was at turns hostile, glib and dismissive toward the court as prosecutors pressed their case against him for the systematic brutalization of Dujail following the assasination attempt. There were of course the periodic outbursts from Saddam, his lawyers and his co-defendants, chiefly Hussein's half brother Barzan Ibrahim.? But as often as not the proceedings in the early part of the trial went forward quietly, with Hussein acting bored. He'd sit for long stretches with his head resting on one of his hands. Sometimes, as court was in session, he'd zone...
Strange things happen when you apply the statistical methods of economics to medical science. You might say you get dismal science, but that's a bit glib. You certainly get some strange claims - like the contention of three economists that autism may be caused by watching too much television at a tender age. It gets stranger still when you look at the data upon which this argument is based. The as yet unpublished Cornell University study, which will be presented Friday at a health economics conference in Cambridge, Mass., is constructed from an analysis of reported autism cases, cable...
...added to the vast canon of postcolonial literature-no more stern apologia from superannuated officials, no more sobbing memoirs of privileged childhood from the waifs and strays of empire-along comes a work that is neither a defense of colonialism nor a veiled lament for its passing. The glib assumption one first makes of Peter Moss's No Babylon-coming as it does from British Hong Kong's former propaganda chief-is that it will be the kind of memoir any undergraduate seminar could destroy in minutes, excoriating an Orientalist cliché here, seizing upon a political or gender bias...
...Harvard, mediocrity is nothing short of unacceptable—even on Saturday night. So chug, party all-star: that glib yet strapping Spee-man from philosophy section seems to be climbing the ladder to social success faster than...