Word: glib
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nasty piece of goods. Philip Hensher's sneering libretto tells the scabrous story of the decline and fall of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (the "Mrs. Sweeny" of Cole Porter's You're the Top), who liked to do the Full Monica on her male servants. Ades' score is a glib farrago of sour, splintered vocal writing, postmodern pastiche and cartoony sound effects. Is this the music of the future? No, just further proof that the now exhausted classical-music avant-garde is repeating itself--this time as camp...
...might be tempted to dismiss this project as a glib summary of a century in boxed-set form--yet another cynical ploy by the record companies. But the 100 neat and tidy two-CD packets of the Great Pianists are a noble exception: truly great indeed...
...Celebrity Series artists are generous this year--Ohlsson gave four well-chosen encores, beginning with a sansculottes Revolutionary etude, and continuing with a glib. graceful Mazurka (Op. 30 No. 4), an ostentatiously fast and harrowing C-sharp Etude (Op. 10 No. 4), and a morsel of Scriabine farfallonery, the Etude Op. 49 No. 3. In effect these encores were four excellent piano lessons...
...turned Faircloth's re-election into a fifty-fifty proposition. Democrats are jubilant over a new internal poll that shows the two men in a statistical dead heat. Even Republicans say the race will be close. "It's not every day that you run against a very slick, very glib, very talented, very presentable personal-injury lawyer," deadpans Alex Castellanos, Faircloth's media adviser. "They know how to sell...
...Somebody glib said that the best way to be a good man is to just be the man your mother thinks you are. Or something like that, you get the gist. I can't even remember it now, even though there was a time when I found it impressively true, true, oh so true. Whoever it was, he must have been Victorian...