When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
The whole relationship between a writer's spiritualemotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting one. When I was an undergraduate, there was a glib notion around that there was no reason to suppose a bad man could be a good writer.
I especially worry about the ways Canadians can be glib about our supposed difference from the US in our "acceptance" of "diversity. "
Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.
At first I was very anxious about starting Twitter, because I didn't really know what was expected of me. I now feel fairly relaxed, in that's it a way of telling people things that you are doing, without any attempt to be entertaining. To me, even funny people who are tweeting, it just gives a glib impression. You know that it's been constructed, that it's not a thing that's just happened in that moment. So whatever you read, the best you get is, "Eh. "
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.
Psychiatry is a pseudoscience. . . . You don't know the history of psychiatry. I do. . . Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don't even -you're glib. You don't even know what Ritalin is.
I've done a few interviews where I realized that 911 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.
It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
I can be glib and truthful all at once.
If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.
This is a long tough road we have to travel. The men that can do things are going to be sought out just as surely as the sun rises in the morning. Fake reputations, habits of glib and clever speech, and glittering surface performance are going to be discovered.
You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully.
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.
