Word: glib
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...rage and need towards his father into a sexual embrace, it begs disturbing questions about the boundaries of love. Only towards the end of the play do such details and moments begin to crystallize. Yet before they have a chance to redeem the opening hour of far-too-glib quips, the play concludes...
Poking fun at the glib answers to typical beauty pageant questions, several of the contestants told the judges they were competing on behalf of “Harvard peace” and “world peace...
Clinton spoke millions of words--must he go three for three with quotes that trite? If anyone could right the score, Klein would be the guy. Sure, there was the slippery, glib Southern pol inside Bill Clinton, but there was also the thoughtful, work-till-the-last-dog-dies wunderkind. As the first reporter to swoon over the Governor from Arkansas (no one fell harder, save perhaps the New Yorker's Sidney Blumenthal, who fell so hard he ended up inside the Administration), Klein seemed the most famously disappointed whenever the good Clinton gave way to the bad. Klein expressed...
...Beautiful,” Fox now begins its sports programs with shots of fighter jets taking off from aircraft carriers with the backing of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” an obvious homage to the attack scenes in Apocalypse Now. The glib stupidity of Fox is almost breathtaking. Anyone who has even the faintest idea of that movie’s contents will instantly realize that it is not a pro-war picture...
...Tragedy has frisked us all. We are finding out what we are carrying around that no one knew we had. Maybe normal is not a useful word for now, too slippery and glib. Maybe transcendence for the moment lies with routine, doing the same things as before, even if we do them differently, with a heavier heart or a lighter touch or a glance over our shoulder. The rescue workers keep saying that they are just doing their jobs. And so they invite us to do the same...