Word: glib
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Kerrey the Weathervane: in his TV ads and rhetoric he often sounds like a Harkin echo. But then in interviews he veers the other way, saying, "I don't think we ought to be protectionist. I think we need to lead in a free-trade fashion." His glib approach rests on the faith that Japan will respond to firm U.S. pressure and -- presto -- the trade deficit will vanish. "I don't mean to dictate to Japan what they do internally," he insists, before adding, somewhat contradictorily, that they "have to give us access to their marketplace...
From the early days of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Society was quick to condemn the Allied military buildup in Saudi Arabia with nothing but a glib, listless condemnation of Iraq itself...
During construction, incredulous that an adequate building could be pasted on the unlovely backside of the Fogg, we watched Gwathmey's sleek, even glib, three-story pastiche of high-tech and nostalgia emerge. We were grateful for its glancing homage to LeCorbusier and relieved, perhaps, that it was less bloodless than the original drawings...
...blotted when too dark or scrubbed so that smears are left; drips run down and impede its forward movement. The effect of this, however, is not to make the image seem tentative; it just slows up the progress of the line enough to keep it from looking glib. The word pedestrian comes to mind, though in a far from disparaging sense...
When Alexander presents personal statements like this one or anecdotes of the people who knew Plath best, the reader receives moments of illumination, and a better understanding of the circumstances in which she lived. Too often, however, Alexander draws glib conclusions that are plainly intrusive: "She realized just how disappointing the Mademoiselle experience had been. And, in an act of transference, she came to see herself as having disappointed others...