glibness
Example Sentences
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Such debates treat science as a sort of cabaret act, in which “glibness, rhetorical skill, and the debater’s charisma” register “far more than facts, logic, reason, and science,” Gorski says.
From Los Angeles Times
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
“Natality” and “woman without children” may be unfamiliar — even clunky — phrases, but they are appropriately jarring rebukes to the glibness of our usual rhetoric, which rarely seems to move beyond entreaties for “more babies, please.”
From Washington Post
Her fresh, vulnerable voice speaks directly to readers, without hiding behind glibness or easy self-assurance.
From Washington Post
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
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