Word: glib
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...revolutionary fervor and steady common sense, derive significance from the writer's cultural attitudes and experiences. Here the terms are being applied to a complex, fairly inaccessible society by Americans, and Thomas B. Gold, a fourth-year graduate student in Sociology, points out that the transfer may be too glib. Gold, who visited the People's Republic a year ago, says, "You go to China and you see it in action, and you cannot understand what they're doing there in our terms. What we mean by pragmatic and what they mean are two different things." Such simple labels promote...
...moderate instincts warn me against Dole's smart-alecky shallowness as he stalks arrogantly along. There is something of the Nixon-Agnew flavor here. I wonder uneasily how distressing it would be should this glib practitioner, by some unfortunate circumstance, become President...
...such pocket dramas as The Hoodlum Priest and Loving, is working for the first time on a large scale. With the excellent assistance of Cameraman Owen Roizman (The Exorcist), he brings off some fine set pieces: a buffalo hunt, the sacking of a fort. The movie is too glib about Indian spirituality to be good, too self-conscious about being on the Indians' side to be wholly convincing. The Return of a Man Called Horse is no more deeply Indian than the old Boy Scout ceremony of the Order of the Arrow. Kershner, at least, endures his own trial...
...need to offset the liberalism of Wicker and Lewis, the New York Times in 1973 hired, not a conservative but a Nixonian, and the difference is considerable. A p.r. man before he became a Nixon speechwriter, Safire has had a hard time abandoning a cute, punning style and glib judgments. He is most interesting when most irritating, being as unfair in his opinions as the worst of liberal polemicists. Safire labors constantly to prove that all other politicians and their aides, from Kennedy to Carter, are as bad as Nixon. His forays into foreign affairs usually end with a poison...
...power and the depths of poverty and degradation, where only a rough correlation with reality is needed. In fact Hailey's portrayal of top-echelon business, his main concern in The Moneychangers, feels a little wrong throughout; the carpets are a little too thick, the talk a little too glib, the board members a little too nakedly opportunistic...