Word: glib
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...prying reached to Hillyer Hawthorne Straton's private creed and personal practices, a Negro among the inquisitors asked him what he thought of "sanctification," and it almost seemed as though the glib answers suddenly betrayed shallowness as the youth hesitated and then chose to answer a different question shot simultaneously by some one else. Ah no, thought the stern elders, you cannot be too sure of youth's probity nowadays. And this boy had been pressed resolutely to the Lord's work by his father. He might be, at heart, no voluntary gospel-man, though...
Wherever instruments beat rhythms and humans whirl or sway in the dance, brisk tunes appear, engender lively songs, finally graft upon the tongue of man strange but glib phrases. Recent additions...
...said more about such an interesting man. Some readers, indeed, claiming to have perused other accounts, described to their friends the scene at Mr. Osborne's deathbed, dealing in dramatic fashion with the pathetic figure of the aged warden, decrepit but courageous still, dying unattended. These glib ones might have been grateful if someone had warned them that even the Herald's two-inch notice (an Associated Press despatch) contained certain inaccuracies...
...Harvard rather flattering to the latter (TIME, Nov. 30). Last week he revisited his old haunts, found out the progress made by an undergraduate Yale committee that was meeting with the administration on the chapel question, and wrote the Crimson a detailed account, using names and phrases with a glib informality that made reading unusually racy for a college sheet...
...beginning: Somehow I feel that thou art near, Though naught there is around, which the composer, one Rudolph Ganz, dedicated to Marguerite Namara, opera star. Odd corners of the large glazed pages were filled with practical workroom suggestions for young singers, with reviews of concerts and operas, and glib comment on vocal activities by one "Ariel." Yet, despite the fact that the first issue of any magazine is inevitably an awkward one, critics found Singing far less dull than many of the slovenly publications in which ruined musicians try to earn a living by writing about music. Vocal students bought...