Listen to some glib talk by speakers at the ground-breaking ceremony of the project and infer what you can. |
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It's this obstinate refusal to pussyfoot around and pull punches that endears her to those sick of spin and glib sloganeering. |
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Furthermore, what about those American evangelists with their glib messages, grubbing a few dollars there and few pounds here? |
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He's irreverent to an extreme, glib, folksy, with a disarming arrogance that drives his non-supporters nuts. |
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The paper excised a section of his remarks, making him seem both glib and callow. |
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Along with an easy confidence and glib manner of the elite, they are all set to tell the world how to manage. |
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Very charming at first, that's one of the characteristics, a superficial, glib sort of charm. |
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Now I cringe to think of the breathy, glib, manic things I sent off, I really do. |
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Do not believe the glib, easy solutions and hard lines put forward in the tabloid press. |
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The quote itself sounds more like a marketing tag line that is glib and very open to shallow interpretations. |
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It would be easy to make glib comparisons with various tyrannies of the past, but I don't think they'd be quite accurate. |
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Politicians now think that a few glib punchlines and a couple of fashionable trends will pull them closer to young people. |
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It is glib and empty rationalising, which taken literally would imply that nastiness is a prerequisite for success. |
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I want to do a very quick and inevitably glib and bowdlerised bit of history before coming to my point. |
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For my money, this thoughtfulness makes the moments of gratuitous blasphemy disappointingly glib and unworthy of the rest of the script. |
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Your short article cited above was glib, arrogant, and provides little factual information. |
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I do not mean that as a glib and facile question, but as the most important foreign policy debate we have to face in today's world. |
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In practice, the biographer has to choose not between lively and dull, but more subtly and perplexingly, between candid and glib. |
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In general I try to avoid the easy, the glib, and the oversimplified in my books. |
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It is glib and disingenuous to say that we are all consumers exercising choices, when most of the options are essentially similar. |
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To address this publicly was not an easy thing to do, as glib as I may have come across. |
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Voltaire's gibe about the Holy Roman Empire was literally true but, like all such glib gibes missed the essential point. |
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The campaign works hard to adopt a glib and sarcastic voice familiar to many young people. |
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His realism could involve a fair amount of tendentious editing, glib generalisation and manipulation of the evidence. |
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The slickest of these, like glib lawyers paid to advocate a poor case, are accustomed to bamboozling innocent audiences. |
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I have seen it all before, and, based on the current form of both teams, I know when not to make glib forecasts. |
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Those who thrive on glib pronouncements about the role of renewables should carry out the occasional reality check. |
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The whole glib tone of this, the truly jingoistic and arrogant belligerence would be totally unacceptable. |
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Nevertheless, these poems speak to me more truly than Bertrand Russell's glib quote. |
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He was smooth, glib, emollient, full of promises that your hands can't quite grip onto. |
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What the world needs from economists are sophisticated hedging strategies, not glib publicity stunts. |
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According to the highbrows, the middlebrow arts relied on glib formulas which were untrue to life's real complexities. |
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Dialogue is sparse, so the humour is superficial, not character-driven, and shows up as glib one-liners. |
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All you have are pat answers and glib retorts that turn out, on ten seconds' worth of thought, to be mindless platitudes. |
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Better a halting dialogue between the right and left hand, full of gaping pauses and impasses, I suggested, rather than a glib ambidextrousness. |
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The garbage strike isn't merely a glib metaphor for an economically as well as emotionally pestilent environment, however. |
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The fact that we don't find such documents puts the lie to such glib and fatuous justifications for immorality. |
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I'm not going to take the easy route and suggest the glib proposition. |
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The remarkably sudden collapse of the Warsaw Pact countries, and then of the Soviet Union itself, led to much glib talk about a New World Order. |
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I am sure members will remember the glib comments we heard from the other side of how we avoided a recession. |
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In the end, even his holy foolery seems more glib than wise. |
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Debate is thus foreclosed in glib, prepared, often single-sentence replies that a trained front-bench speaker can issue as if from his own mammoth brain. |
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Hence the abundance of glib one liners, and the triumph of sarcasm. |
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I think she's like her husband in that she can absorb a lot of information and then come through with very glib unsubstantial notions that don't work. |
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In choosing guests to appear on cable news, bookers will almost always choose a glib ignoramus over an expert who can't talk in clipped sentences. |
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But, part of it also seems like ignorance of her place in history, a glib gloss on events of incontestable consequence. |
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All that is required is a sharp eye and a glib tongue to bargain. |
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He is too awesome to be handled like plastic, dished out by glib over-sure arrogance. |
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A fear of dental treatment might well have helped create more comfortable surgical processes and environments, but it might be glib to say that the chief phobia among designers is cacophobia. |
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Koordinierender Beobachter may perceive Inspirers as shallow or superficial, due to their glib way with words. |
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Alan Ball: Well, it's very easy to be glib and ironic in connection to the suburbs. |
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Birnbaum is neither glib nor snide about how management fads play out in higher education. |
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He could be unbearably glib, but his patrician persona and acid tongue, his radiating sense of superiority, made for good showbiz. |
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It is easy, this close to the end of a season, to make glib statements about football being a matter of life and death. |
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Clegg was just glib and irrelevant, acting as if he'd been in opposition for the last five years rather than in government. |
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Statements like that will no doubt prompt the glib to accuse locals of living in an aspiration-free zone: a mental Benefits Street. |
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Survey respondents who have gone through a divorce or separation were hardly glib in telling about their experiences. |
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Then, of course, we found out that 130,000 jobs were lost in January and 250,000 since they were making such glib comments. |
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In fact, the Prime Minister made a similar glib comment when he met with the Canadian Auto Workers on a visit to Kitchener. |
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Many people's lives and businesses were ruined by this glib, offhand implementation of visa restrictions last year. |
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As a result, our understanding of the world outside our own country is glib, frequently dismissive. |
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Its affably glib opening lines set the tone while acknowledging the First-World-problems aspect to the text. |
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When something about the magic act goes wrong, a glib tongue and a humorous manner can do much to gloss over the slip so that people do not notice that anything is amiss. |
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By the same token he has well-honed skills of debate and a hectoring, let-me-do-it-right-for-you manner when delivering his otherwise glib answers. |
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A left-over puritan work ethic encourages us to buy into the glib sales pitches, You have to work the principles for the principles to work for you. |
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Truth in Advertising balances the droll with the hopeful and the glib with the heartfelt. |
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He is a voluble and glib speaker and said to be very ambitious. |
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Debate, as we saw last Wednesday night, sometimes over-rewards the glib one-liner, or incentivizes stubborn misrepresentation. |
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His glib, even slick performance may score with debate coaches but the American people may not be similarly wowed. |
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I can either be profound and intellectual or silly and glib. |
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This is a glib accusation, easily made but difficult to substantiate. |
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Music theft, downloading, I am shaking my fists to glib jokes. |
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The ability to think, to reason and to be original, being difficult to assess, have been replaced by glib formulae learnt by rote, which can be applied automatically and are easily tested. |
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So we should not be glib about the importance of the strength of our financial sector in Canada which is increasingly recognized around the world. |
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Last week, USW leaders across Canada called for the resignation of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over glib remarks made about the potential fate of mining communities affected by corporate interests. |
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It's a nice turn of phrase, if a trifle glib. |
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Mr. Speaker, glib answers are not acceptable. |
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Her sermons tend toward glib, inspirational double-talk. |
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In all honesty, we cannot answer this question with a glib affirmative. |
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But the first chance they get, Flaherty cracks a glib joke about it. |
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But this cynical take is too glib and sweeping to explain everything. |
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I realise that people think they must set out their manifesto but, as Guardian columnists and letter-writers have argued, this is no time to rush into glib analyses and over-simple solutions. |
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He had lost faith in Russell, finding him glib and his philosophy mechanistic, and felt he had fundamentally misunderstood the Tractatus. |
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The Commission has sought to distract the public attention from unresolved internal problems in the present by making glib and bombastic promises for the future. |
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In a campaign so enlivened with scandal, this is not a glib question. |
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The notion that Canada possesses a surfeit of territory but skimpy and rather leaden history is occasionally echoed by glib commentators who, like Mackenzie King, understand little about the real scope of history. |
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Let us, indeed, see how the point of view has changed which was held in regard to those cultivated and glib accumbents who in former days were taken for real social workers. |
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Politicians need to do more than provide glib answers to difficult questions. |
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