Word: glib
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...Benny, never too glib with an ad lib, has seldom had the last word. Fred is the deadliest remarksman in show business. Once Jack twitted Fred about some fictitious "signs they hold up on your program telling people when to laugh. We don't have them on our show." Fred retorted: "You must remember, Jack, we're dealing with a class of people who can read...
Wylie thinks he has the answer for juvenile delinquency, the high divorce rate, national psychoses such as Naziism and "iron curtains." He presents his answers, as usual, in ups & downs of personal sharpness and pseudo-scientific bombast, glib epigrams and gassy notions, often pungent and more often appallingly slipshod prose. At his best, Iconoclast Wylie pinpricks as sharply as H. L. Mencken ; at his worst, he is as full of unenlightening heat as Westbrook Pegler...
...that he was the greatest man who ever lived; his mission, he will say, will be to liberate men from the servitudes of superstition and Fascism, which he will never define." The Ape of God. "In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God. Be cause his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God, he will deceive even the elect...
Almost everyone else in Georgia was confused. Many a citizen believed that glib, liberal Ellis Arnall should just continue in office. Others, including Arnall himself, thought Melvin Thompson should assume...
...concert tours: "If a flyer is taken with an American composition it had better be flashy, glib or cute. It must make an instantaneous hit on its first hearing or it will never get another...