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glibness

[glib-nis] / ˈglɪb nɪs /










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That’s easier said than done, and “Giovanni” — long, circular, slippery — is one of the hardest assignments for an opera director, with attempts tending to fall into either unremitting dreariness or irritating glibness.

From New York Times • May 7, 2023

Her fresh, vulnerable voice speaks directly to readers, without hiding behind glibness or easy self-assurance.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2023

That Brodesser-Akner has managed to draft at least a humane sketch of Rachel feels like a step up from her nonfiction, which tended toward glibness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Whereas Strange’s glibness with patients and his peers made him unlikable almost to ridiculousness in the first Doctor Strange, here it plays much more like pithiness Cumberbatch is occasionally able to accent with charm.

From The Verge • May 3, 2022

This is perhaps indicative of excess glibness, considering how little I apparently knew.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen