Word: glib
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...movement, she found, was also infested with "glib touchers," "sensual pedants" and "sensitivity heads," people who pretended to be growing but were actually addicts who had to have "a maintenance dose of intimacy." Physical contact, she decided, could be a very effective way of avoiding emotional contact. Did Dr. William Schutz, author of Joy, really think he was increasing intimacy in a group by issuing each man a gynecological speculum and inviting him to examine his partner's vagina? And what was really in the mind of Paul Bindrim, an advocate of nude marathons, when he spread a young...
...Ecological" is a designation that occurred to these glib young opportunists at a very late stage. When Mr. Oppenheim sent out press releases and photographs of models of his works one or two years ago, there was no mention of ecology at all. As a matter of fact, it is reasonable to assume that his activities do more to upset the balance of nature than do anything positive for the environment. One might well ask how much small marine life was poisoned by the magenta dye which Mr. Oppenheim foolishly and recklessly released into a Caribbean cove. He should...
...supported. It was perfectly understandable that the President wanted, in the words of an intimate, to "get the country's pride back up" and appeal to its patriotism. But the manner in which he did it seemed deliberately designed to divide the country further. He made a glib, not to say demagogic, connection between foreign aggression and domestic dissent. Said he: "We live in an age of anarchy both abroad and at home...
...laughing at this? That's racist!' Speeches come out on that subject, and we don't hear anything. We just sit there screaming Right on. Damn few people are willing to take the risk of doing a funny, funky show on that subject. It's disarming and glib; those are not good qualities for a writer to trade on except when absolutely necessary. I don't know, maybe it's just wish-ful-fillment on my part. Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time...
Lesotho is in many ways an undistinguished country. The Switzerland of Southern Africa, travel writers have termed her, but the phrase is much too glib. This is no Alpine wonderland; the surface beauty of the gnarled Maluti mountains masks a state of poverty that is among the most abject on earth...