Word: glib
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NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. A glib, gabby phony of a TV writer (Robert Preston) tries to shore up a crumbling career with sleight-of-tongue, and makes...
...kiss his own reflection in a mirror and really mean it. Nat Bentley is a television writer-producer in Hollywood, but his most inspired production is his ebulliently maleficent self. He is an imp of distilled evil. He is a triple-tongued double dealer, a glib Vesuvius of fantasy and falsehood, a perpetual-emotion machine with nary an honest feeling...
...without so much as refuting them, implying that slavery and secession alone were at issue. It never explains adequately why the North regarded the Union as sacred, or why Lincoln initially joined the Whigs. And even as popularized history (no footnotes or bibliography), Two Roads is excessively given to glib, cliched, and romantic insights...
Beckwith returned to Greenwood, worked for ten years as a tobacco salesman. He and his wife were divorced, remarried, then separated-and Beckwith lived alone in the tumble-down family house. Last January he became a fertilizer salesman. He was glib enough to be good at selling but, as one employer obliquely put it, he was "overly enthusiastic about things not concerned with...
...assassinated, or just decide not to run. The infectious presidential fever has spread to all parties. On the non-Gaullist side, possible candidates range from Antoine Pinay (at 71, he may be too old) to the last Premier of the Fourth Republic, Pierre Pflimlin, to the glib Radical spokesman, Maurice Faure. The Socialists have contenders in veteran Guy Mollet and the shrewd, affable mayor of Marseille. Gaston Defferre...