glib

“Southern Man”? It’s probably a little glib to declare it a song about reparations, but it’s also not an incorrect observation.

He was 27, an aspiring cop with a Hollywood apartment and a glib patter that reminded people of a used-car salesman.

That sounds a bit glib, comparing my love of shark films to the very real and immediate threats of shark endangerment.

And while the notion that Lennon and Ono came to understand America through its television programming is provocative, too frequently the collage of grim news and glib ads leans toward the tritely ironic.

It’s fun to read, for sure, but there’s also a yawning pit of despair sitting beneath the narrator’s alternating tones of glib humor and seething rage.