Word: glib
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...chapel speech yesterday morning, Mr. Conant stated that America's chief hope for development as a free nation rests on the "number and influence" of its "tough-minded idealists." Recalling the glib complacency of those who, a year ago, oblivious of "the ominous consequences of the technical transformation of the art of war," foresaw the fulfillment of all the slick magazine ads picturing the happy, unruffled post-war world, he asked, "Should we have really expected a totally different post-war era?" But for Mr. Conant, realization of the hard cold facts of the atomic age is only half...
...Trim, glib, tireless Mrs. Katharine St. George would not be downed. Her opponent for the Republican Congressional nomination in New York's farmerish, four-county 29th District was earnest, colorless Lawyer Augustus Bennet. As a Good-Government candidate in 1944, quasi-Republican Bennet had unseated Republican Ham Fish. Mrs. St. George, who takes her Party straight, had a low opinion...
During the past hundred years, the cause for Indian independence has been peculiarly marked by a lack of action: by vague peregrinations of "passive resistance" by Eastern political religiosos in Bombay and Calcutta, by glib protestations of Occidental parlor progressives in London and Washington, and by the well-meaning, but weak movements of British diplomats between Simla and New Delhi. All have realized the genuine desire of the Indian for liberty, but all have tried to build from the top, speaking of the establishment of ministries and legislatures and agencies, and overlooking, in their plans, proposals for pulling the average...
...stockholders of the Panhandle Producing and Refining Co., sleek, glib Serge Rubinstein, 37, last week made a self-sacrificing gesture: he resigned as president and chairman to save the stockholders "embarrassment...
Housman could indulge in depths of unblushing self-pity; but he could also write the magnificent Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle. His gift for epigram and poetic conceit was too glib, but he could also write...