Word: glib
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Intense, ambitious, handsome, emotional, able, fluent, glib and graceful, Rufus Griswold had left his Vermont home and wandered from town to town as a printer, became a protege of Horace Greeley, got into politics briefly, edited the New-Yorker and other gaslight scandal sheets of the 1830s, married happily and became one of the zealots who insisted that American literature could be emancipated from its subservience to England. He also became a Baptist minister, though he never had a church. His anthology, The Poets and Poetry of America, went through 16 editions in his lifetime...
After many months of glib discussion on the question of a Negro-White mixed regiment, it is about time for some official Harvard student action--action to speak louder than all the words the subject has thus far stimulated. Most Harvard students realize that the wide gap between the preachment and the practise of democracy in the Army must be bridged; a foundation of that bridge lies in the mixed regiment, which is, in turn, a foundation itself for future liberalism and better racial attitudes in a post-war United States. The steps of construction must be taken...
...Glib, wild-haired Musicomedian Danny Kaye, working like a turkey gobbler, held up the auction's prize piece. It was not precious. It was a curio: Comic Jack Benny's violin, "Old Love In Bloom"-a $75 imitation Amati. Everyone present knew that only a war could have persuaded Benny to part with the old prop which had provided him with half his gags for the last 20 years. Before anyone could make a bid an attendant rushed up to Auctioneer Kaye with a letter. He opened it and gulped: "I have...
Entertaining in spots, exciting in others, Yankee Point as a whole is glib and empty...
...delay in making known some of the sinkins of American ships was unnecessarily drawn out. In this respect Maas was merely intensifying a point that has become increasingly obvious to careful news followers. His other point, that unity of command is still a vision on the horizon and a glib phrase in the mouths of military authorities and the OWI, is much more directly questionable, and has already been challenged by members of the army and navy general staffs...