How To Use Glib In A Sentence

But that makes me sound a bit glib. Times, Sunday Times
Both the antisense drug and glibenclamide led to 75% reductions in spinal cord lesion volume six weeks after the injury, compared with sham-treated animals, the researchers reported. Social Security Reports, News and Informaion
COURIC: Yes, I was going to say that ` s a weird use of the word glib, but whatever. CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2005
But it didn't take many years of experience to realize that glibness is a minor talent, like being good at video games or foosball.
Mr. Geary looked at her sharply, but she said the name glibly, and Marjorie at Seacote

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Are there mitigating circumstances, or just a middle-aged roué's glib excuses?
But I must reiterate that I am not here speaking about what we glibly call ‘class.’
When women do confront sexism, the glib reply is often that it is a joke.
You're going to get a lot of guff from readers who actually follow the link to that review and see how glibly dismissive it is.
He calls Keira Knightley 'brilliant,' Robert Downey Jr. 'glib'-and turned down' The Girl Macleans.ca
Even the glibbest young executive would turn into gelatinous material. Suddenly Sassa At Nbc
And now the Baboo passes into the godown, and receives from a score of servile _cicars_, glibbest of clerks, their several reports of the day's business. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
I'm not going to take the easy route and suggest the glib proposition.
Of course, we all remember when Tom Cruise went off on Lauer, calling him "glib" as they went at it over antidepressants. CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2009
It is easy to be glib about this point, because, like pornography, spam is something that most of us think we recognise when we see it.
Watch as, in a glib aside, he patronises a culturally-hungry bevy of 50,000 people and, in the aftermath, ponder the unspoken insinuation that popular music is just a cacophony that only appeals to thickos.
the glibness of a high-pressure salesman
But as the blockbuster decade progressed, heroes got slicker, glibber, and more cynical. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
I know this will sound glib, but don't pretend you aren't feeling what you feel.
The advice isn't entirely remiss, but over the years, such glib counsel has resulted in a preponderance of breezy, aimless books long on episodic family humour but short on meaning.
All you have are pat answers and glib retorts that turn out, on ten seconds' worth of thought, to be mindless platitudes.
As the young woman rattled on she grew more and more glib; she was what they call whopper-jawed, and spoke a language almost purely consonantal, cutting and clipping her words with a rapid play of her whopper-jaw till there was nothing but the bare bones left of them. The Minister's Charge
So I noticed," Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girl's face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all its implications. Murder at Bridge
There are simply too many unanswered questions that can't be swept under the carpet, and it's not enough to glibly claim the legal system has already ruled on these claims.
It is glib and empty rationalising, which taken literally would imply that nastiness is a prerequisite for success.
To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Given thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise. Doctor Thorne
Voting for the man with the glibbest line, the flashy smile, who says whatever his current audience wants to hear is NEVER a recipe for a good leader. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
Complaints of attendant social breakdown, of anomie and alienation, of the dissolution of marriage and households, of the decline of religion, were commonly - and perhaps too glibly - voiced.
My interest in Manchester's bands and their gabby, glib boss was minimal, but this is a gleefully rambunctious trip to a manky heart of darkness, with guns, deaths and prodigious amounts of drugs.
You are certainly blessed with a glib tongue.
According to the highbrows, the middlebrow arts relied on glib formulas which were untrue to life's real complexities.
Just the suggestion of it and the underlying tension in his voice had caused the tongue he had termed glib to stick to the roof of her mouth. Heaven's Price
Very charming at first, that's one of the characteristics, a superficial, glib sort of charm.
This may seem glib, but it is the way the game is played in many organizations. Everything You Need to Know for Success in Business
But that makes me sound a bit glib. Times, Sunday Times
Rich's fragmentary locutions, which have often permitted her to express complex thoughts in rewardingly complex ways, can now feel glib. The Times Literary Supplement
Sounds a bit glib to Stuart. STUART: A Life Backwards
Been-there-and-back soul, an ability to separate the glib from the gothic. The Nightingales of Troy: Summary and book reviews of The Nightingales of Troy by Alice Fulton.
For my money, this thoughtfulness makes the moments of gratuitous blasphemy (which do happen, but are surely allowed too) disappointingly glib and unworthy of the rest of the script.
The glib answer is that there cannot be, because it takes two to fight a war. Times, Sunday Times
No one was convinced by his glib answers/explanations.
The fast shopboy whose love of fine company and high living had brought him to this pass, had shaken off the first shame that was on him, and listened eagerly to the narratives of successful vice that fell so glibly from the lips of his older companions. For the term of his natural life
His realism could involve a fair amount of tendentious editing, glib generalisation and manipulation of the evidence.
It would be easy to make glib comparisons with various tyrannies of the past, but I don't think they'd be quite accurate.
Those who thrive on glib pronouncements about the role of renewables should carry out the occasional reality check.
The glib expectation that all his siblings will exude similar star quality is inevitably flawed. Times, Sunday Times
He spoke glibly about an economic recovery just around the corner.
First, those who have either been conditioned out of thinking about such questions or else have glibly assimilated pat religious answers lead impoverished lives.
Nevertheless, these poems speak to me more truly than Bertrand Russell's glib quote.
The whole glib tone of this, the truly jingoistic and arrogant belligerence would be totally unacceptable.
His sun is in Capricorn and moon is in Gemini; he is glib, witty, clever and awfully ambitious. Hana and Haruki
There is no glib answer to why suffering is part of the divine plan. Times, Sunday Times
In the early days John was routinely accused of glibness, superficiality, mannerism, of Pop-Art vacancy and amorality.
Politicians now think that a few glib punchlines and a couple of fashionable trends will pull them closer to young people.
In this case, it's a term glibly applied to someone who, having failed to win an open seat after spending $160 million, will instead attempt to dislodge an entrenched incumbent in the form of Dianne Feinstein. Meg Whitman Will Mount A Second Terrible Political Campaign As Soon As She Figures Out Why The First One Was Terrible
They are never glib, never sententious, but cliché is never far away either.
glib generalizations
Along with an easy confidence and glib manner of the elite, they are all set to tell the world how to manage.
Of the works that take a discernible stand - many are appealingly vague - 95% are anti-war, and most are frankly rather glib and trite in this expression.
This may seem glib, but it is the way the game is played in many organizations. Everything You Need to Know for Success in Business
The campaign works hard to adopt a glib and sarcastic voice familiar to many young people.
You come here with a very singular story, and nowt to back it but a glib tongue and your smooth, innocent-like young face -- and you go back hame with a heaped gowpen of gold, and mair in the kist ahint of that. Copper Streak Trail
The lie came without hesitation, as if from another set of nerves and another, glibber mouth. Gorky Park
The glib expectation that all his siblings will exude similar star quality is inevitably flawed. Times, Sunday Times
However, the image I felt loyal to uphold was one of Stoic indifference nuanced in places by a kind of glibly cavalier attitude. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
Para infamar a mujeres They've glib tongues for defaming women tienen lengua, y tienen manos and they have ready hands para osar a los ancianos for challenging some old man Don Juan Tenorio
So, he decided to inhabit a character who was very much like he was in real life: Brash, glib, superficial and immensely appreciative of beautiful women.
The fact that we don't find such documents puts the lie to such glib and fatuous justifications for immorality.
Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action. Times, Sunday Times
Listen to some glib talk by speakers at the ground-breaking ceremony of the project and infer what you can.
Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action. Times, Sunday Times
a disadvantage on the campaign trail to his glibber, more charismatic rival, Lansing Mayor Freep.com - RSS
The glibness of even Sen. Collins 'assumptions that a "trigger" would be inevitably "pulled" by the bureaucrats in charge is typical GOP nonsense: Obviously, the "trigger" will require evaluation of hard data of insurance costs, etc. Key senator rejects 'trigger' for public health insurance option
But it can also lead to impulsive behavior (ready, shoot, aim) and confident leaders who glibly take their followers over a cliff.
In general I try to avoid the easy, the glib, and the oversimplified in my books.
He is a voluble and glib speaker and said to be very ambitious.
We talk glibly of equality of opportunity.
But if your intention in writing this piece was actually to persuade the undecided, your unserious tone and glib elision of important foundational arguments has defeated your intent.
To me it is unintelligible that the full tide of glibbest chatter can be stopped at a moment in the midst of profuse good living, and the Giver thanked becomingly in words of heartfelt praise. Doctor Thorne
Lulled by a steady inflation rate—a product of cheap Chinese goods and floods of Eastern European migrant labor—Mr. King's BOE glibly ignored manifold warning signs. Dangerous German Export Machine Needs Reverse Gear
Temporary withdrawal of glibenclamide, also known as glyburide, led to restoration of islet cell function in mice that had become glucose intolerant during continuous treatment with the sulfonylurea, Maria Sara Remedi, Ph. D., and Colin G. Nichols, Ph. D., of Washington University here, reported online in MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
Yet it is never slick or glib; instead, it exudes a guileless, homespun warmth.
glib promises
The more unvarnished and elemental the emotion, the more likely we glib sophisticates will roll our eyes: oh, please.
The items include glibness and superficial charm,, grandiose self-worth, pathological lying, proneness to boredom and emotional vacuity.
Well, that would be a bit glib. Times, Sunday Times
This is a glib accusation, easily made but difficult to substantiate.
Simard and colleagues found that glibenclamide, a Sur1 antagonist, also improved rats 'performance in the spontaneous rearing test following the same type of injury. Social Security Reports, News and Informaion
Your short article cited above was glib, arrogant, and provides little factual information.
The fellow has a very glib tongue.
she has a glib tongue
I suppose that persistency, a glibber tongue than he himself possessed, a mass of printed rubbish which always looks imposing to the unliterary, that primitive combination of authoritativeness and hospitality which makes some men as ready to say Yes to a stranger as they are to say No at home, and perhaps some lack of moral courage, may account for it. We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys
There are no glib, pat answers that will provide comfort to people of faith in the face of such an overwhelming, needless tragedy, says Christian.
College is "glib and superficial" for most matriculants.
Gentlemen, conservation is a word that has wide application and meaning, but in the last five years it has become a hackneyed, much-abused term, glibly used by many who hunt and fish, few of whom have any idea what the word means or what it entails. If You're Too Busy To Go FishingYou're Too Busy
This adminstration is such an utter joke, this is like a bad movie. awaitingliberalizationbyCNN White House launches health care 'reality check' Web site
The web has always been a dumping group for the glibbest and grossest kinds of schadenfreude. Claire Gordon: The Gift of Money
Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action. Times, Sunday Times
Richard, never at any time a glib jingler of rhymes, was in sorry case, for now that he had most need of his wits, his passion instead of sharpening them seemed to have removed them utterly. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
His glib talk sounds as sweet as a song.
It is, as the morbidly glib never tire of reminding us, as natural as life.
But in the dead of night, who should come in but James Desmond, sword in hand, with a dozen of his ruffians at his heels, each with his glib over his ugly face, and his skene in his hand. Westward Ho!
Hence the abundance of glib one liners, and the triumph of sarcasm.
Nor does it help that the hero's seemingly insoluble problems are glibly smoothed out in the final scene.
Mr. Lewis takes an insufferably glib attitude toward it all.
Many of the op-ed columnists glibly excoriating him now will have the pleasure in the future of dealing with a parent with Alzheimers.
We have seen people wrestle honestly with real issues rather than come out with glib answers or a party line. Times, Sunday Times
It is rare to see a work so dramatically inept, intellectually vacuous and morally glib. Times, Sunday Times
For Robert Wilonsky, The Pursuit of Happyness "is too emotionally slick to work, too visually glib to have an impact, made by people who think grit is something that's brought in by the prop department. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/13.
In practice, the biographer has to choose not between lively and dull, but more subtly and perplexingly, between candid and glib.
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.
His glib talk sound as sweet as a song!
It is the Malemute Kid, however, who glibly voices a naturalistic assumption in noting that men should understand that life itself is a gamble, a kind of game with no predictable outcome. “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction
The easiest way to do this is to come up with a glib explanation for the failure, to explain how this failure is not real - or can readily be overcome - and to power ahead so that any disconfirmation of a person's world view is interpreted instead as affirmation for it. Stanton Peele: Afghanistan: The Psychology of Failure as Justification for Continuing Futility
The glib answer was that the feeling was mutual. Times, Sunday Times
People who talk glibly about ‘intelligence failure’ act as if intelligence agencies that are doing their job right would know everything.
Really, the libertarian, pseudo-libertarian, and and assorted glibertarian types are all like bedwetter Mike K – a reliable whine against men with guns stealing their money and a reliable vote for men with guns to steal their money to give to other men with guns to do real violence to innocents. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
This scheme finally gives real meaning to the glib phrase ‘low cost housing’.
I have a hard time believing a band of cutthroats would operate in this manner, but what really chills the marrow is the Clan's glib acceptance of these robbers who, as far as the Clan is concerned, winnow out the riff-raff. August Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour: Broken Angel
There are moments, too, when either the dialogue or its delivery seems glib. Times, Sunday Times
In the end, even his holy foolery seems more glib than wise.
We have seen people wrestle honestly with real issues rather than come out with glib answers or a party line. Times, Sunday Times
I want to do a very quick and inevitably glib and bowdlerised bit of history before coming to my point.
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.
I can either be profound and intellectual or silly and glib.
Kaffrarian friends, so when two glib tongued scoundrels endeavored to claim my burrow on the score of prior occupation, they were soon hunted off. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
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.
They are glossy, glib and trot out all the gimmicks and tricks to catch your attention - and are pointless as anything other than that.
Now wrestlers in the Olympian games were naked, and anointed with oil to make them sleek and glibbery, so to afford no holdfast to such as strove with them. Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
Sounds a bit glib to Stuart. STUART: A Life Backwards
I am not anti-American - the easy glib retort by that is repeated parrot-fashion whenever one raises these issues - no, I love America, and I hate to see what this wretched war is doing to its people.
At times, he can't resist using pat plot devices to move action along, or coasting on a kind of breezy glibness.
Now I cringe to think of the breathy, glib, manic things I sent off, I really do.
Admittedly it is difficult to draw comfort from so glib and overriding a statement, but a willingness to compromise your vision and not micromanage the project will see you through.
You quote glibly from a document you haven’t even read. Think Progress » Exclusive: Classified Pentagon Document Described White Phosphorus As ‘Chemical Weapon’
This is a false and counterproductive approach; it is to true open-mindedness what glib moral relativism is to genuine tolerance.
I think he rejected a glib and cynical machtpolitik view of what U.S. "responsibilities" were. BlueOregon
This did not do much to diffuse allegations that Prejean was robbed of her crown by queenie conspirators, or rise above the snark with actual insight, or stress that these are other people's lives Prejean so glibly oppresses, and that the issue is not about her or her archaic beliefs. Is Bruno Worse For Gays Than Perez Hilton?
It is glib and disingenuous to say that we are all consumers exercising choices, when most of the options are essentially similar.
Dialogue is sparse, so the humour is superficial, not character-driven, and shows up as glib one-liners.
Early in his stay in Madrid, a notorious star-chaser glibly informed the Spanish media that the new arrival would be the latest in her series of celebrity conquests.
Of course, the banausic Belichick - at his glibbest - counters: ‘Yeah, everyone complains about my fashion.’
Their office looked like the Ritz and their salesman – his name escapes me while I scream some more – their saleman was glib and self-assured and just a little cocky. 365 tomorrows » 2010 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
In that context, his prediction can be interpreted as an attempt to worry England rather than a glib comment. Times, Sunday Times
He's irreverent to an extreme, glib, folksy, with a disarming arrogance that drives his non-supporters nuts.
Mr. Lewis takes an insufferably glib attitude toward it all.
a glib tongue
Her manner, reserved to the point of stiffness, and paralyzing, as it did, the glibbest masculine tongue among them, was also looked upon as the acme of perfection and all that was desirable in young ladyhood; each individual humbly admitting that while he never before had met a real lady, he knew one when he saw her. 'Me--Smith'
The story is so broad in scope, yet so glibly simplified, each element is glanced over lightly.
I was supposed to be the glibbest of speech of our party, and up I got. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland
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.
If I so glibly excused the murder of children, I wouldn't be able to stand my own reflection either.
He spoke glibly about an economic recovery just around the corner.
This accounts for my glib use of the word mucilage, as well as the titles of other staples. Men, Women, and Boats
Another commentator derided the presenter's ‘mixture of solicitous concern, unctuous charm and glib moralising.’
The tapes offer no glib answers. Christianity Today
At his back stood the hunchback, who "pattered" in description of the drawings as glibly as he used to "puff" his own wares as a Cheap Jack. Jan of the Windmill
Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action. Times, Sunday Times
Do not believe the glib, easy solutions and hard lines put forward in the tabloid press.
Readers may remember the little eye problem I glibly referred to a few weeks ago when I rambled on about hypochondria.
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Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action. Times, Sunday Times
Police recovered 215 bottles of the counterfeit diabetes drug branded Tang Zhi Ning Jiao Nang containing six times the normal dose of glibenclamide, which is used to lower blood sugar, the agency said. RIA Novosti
The only thing that can be safely predicted is a purge of the glib globalism that understands little about economics, nothing about national wealth, and less than nothing about comparative labor productivity.
In that context, his prediction can be interpreted as an attempt to worry England rather than a glib comment. Times, Sunday Times
When natural philosophers referred to laws of nature, they were not glibly choosing that metaphor.
The paper excised a section of his remarks, making him seem both glib and callow.
All that is required is a sharp eye and a glib tongue to bargain.
So the temptation of the glib phrase outran his discretion. The Rough Road
Then, as now, there was much glib talk about getting to the bottom of things and ‘learning lessons’.
In addition to padding his expense accounts, he is guilty of slanting and exaggerating some of his glibly written articles.
It is a scene of abject desolation that illustrated how glib the assumption was that the occupational hazards of swings in fortune ends up desensitising players. Football's inside-story tellers change perceptions and expose the soul | Rob Bagchi
he talked glibly
The house my friends were living in rejoiced in the euphonious name of "Motesitzkysches Haus," and it used to provoke me to hear the glib way in which the shop-keepers would run the name off when desired to send home parcels. A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia
Marketplace: Do not have the glib - tongued legend middle mouth, only do not have a monograph heart.
But it sounds so glib and useless and feels so cheap and cop-out just to say ‘I'm going to be a better person from now on.’
Simard and colleagues suggested that therapies targeting Sur1 expression, combined with glibenclamide (to block preexisting ion channels), appear to be "a promising strategy for prevention of the devastating sequelae of spinal cord trauma in humans. Social Security Reports, News and Informaion
Does that article feel a little too glib to anyone else?
a glib response to a complex question
Mr. Lewis takes an insufferably glib attitude toward it all.
The Italian, with her glibness of tongue and ready fund of anecdote, was transformed in her imaginative mind into a veritable improvisatore. Mae Madden
We talk glibly about a natural mode of living, a simple diet; but where in our civilized countries can we find food that really serves healthy sanguification? Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
It was just a glib comment. The Sun
You are certainly blessed with a glib tongue.
He was smooth, glib, emollient, full of promises that your hands can't quite grip onto.
A return to a Cheney-based model of foreign policy that seeks American hegemony is incompatible with today's realities. awaitingliberalizationbyCNN New group tries to convince Cheney to run in 2012
Lack of gravitas makes the musical interludes seem glib, rather than an ironic counterpoint to the action. Times, Sunday Times
The glib answer to the question'What makes a good restaurant? Times, Sunday Times
What the world needs from economists are sophisticated hedging strategies, not glib publicity stunts.
The glib answer to the question'What makes a good restaurant? Times, Sunday Times
The tapes offer no glib answers. Christianity Today
It's this obstinate refusal to pussyfoot around and pull punches that endears her to those sick of spin and glib sloganeering.
It is history as it should be: entertaining without being glib, informative without being didactic.
The glib answer is that there cannot be, because it takes two to fight a war. Times, Sunday Times
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If this drug fails to control the diabetes than a more potent preparation such as glibenclamide may be required.
He drank thy health five times, _supernaculum_, [2] to my son Brain-sick; and dipt my daughter Pleasance's little finger, to make it go down more glibly: [3] And, before George, I grew tory rory, as they say, and strained a brimmer through the lily-white smock, i'faith. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
There is no glib answer to why suffering is part of the divine plan. Times, Sunday Times
The name-dropping rolls off the tongue so glibly that sometimes you wonder if those genuflecting have actually listened to the music or are simply reading from an approved checklist of the super-cool.
OBJECTIVE:To select a best therapeutic scheme for diabetes among four kinds of oral hypoglycemic drugs:repaglinide(Novonorm), glibenclamide, gliclazide and glipizide.

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