Word: glibness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Tragedy has frisked us all. We are finding out what we are carrying around that no one knew we had. Maybe normal is not a useful word for now, too slippery and glib. Maybe transcendence for the moment lies with routine, doing the same things as before, even if we do them differently, with a heavier heart or a lighter touch or a glance over our shoulder. The rescue workers keep saying that they are just doing their jobs. And so they invite us to do the same...
...Tragedy has frisked us all. We are finding out what we are carrying around that no one knew we had. Maybe normal is not a useful word for now, too slippery and glib. Maybe transcendence for the moment lies with routine, doing the same things as before, even if we do them differently, with a heavier heart or a lighter touch or a glance over our shoulder. The rescue workers keep saying that they are just doing their jobs. And so they invite us to do the same...
...tight, compact sentences, unflorid writing style and sparingly-used adjectives add to the charm of Dogwalker and prevent passages that would otherwise be over the top from becoming irritating. Although some might accuse Bradford of being a little too cool, a little too ironic and a little too glib for his own good, his arch and acerbic tone prevent him from becoming heavy handed or sentimental, a far worse accusation...
...this can lend itself to the kind of tired potshots against Wasp repressiveness that sometimes marred Beauty, with the open-casket funeral standing in for suburbia's houses made of ticky-tack. The show can be glib, and there are too many one-dimensional peripheral characters, like episode four's Latino gangbangers. But the leads are richly drawn and well cast; theater veteran Hall finds layers within layers in tightly wound David. In the pilot's finest scene, Nathaniel's funeral, Nate makes a self-indulgent show of refusing to sprinkle dirt on the grave from a tidy canister, protesting...
Like Harry Potter peering into the mirror of Erised, investors examining this wacky stock market can see exactly what they want to see. The fumbled election? Terrible news, say the grim. No clear winner; no telling what's in store. Wonderful news, say the glib. So much confusion means so much gridlock in Congress that we'll probably not get any dumb spending bills or tax cuts. Read: The surplus is safe...