Sentence examples for glib explanation from inspiring English sources
Policymakers have invested in the exhausted, glib explanation that maintaining nutritional health is a matter of personal and parental responsibility.
Considering Vidal's failure to become a poet, Parini accepts his subject's glib explanation: "The Muse passed over my doorstep".
The glib explanation is that it's because they don't like admitting weakness, but I think there's more to it than that.
Policymakers have invested in the exhausted, glib explanation that maintaining nutritional health is a matter of personal and parental responsibility – a corporate defence strategy adapted from the tobacco and alcohol industries.
Galbraith acknowledges that the United States has mostly enjoyed prosperity in recent years; his glib explanation is that hold-over New Deal institutions (government mortgage agencies, subsidized health care, student loans) have come to the rescue of misguided conservative policies.
Given the difficult Midwestern childhood he chronicles – a mother crippled by multiple sclerosis, an authoritarian father – the glib explanation would be that he started running as an escape, a view he reinforces by saying: "I was often chasing a state of mind, a place where worries melted away".
The struggle mocks glib explanations.
With this solid bank of historical data, Iowa policy makers are less prone to offer glib explanations and more willing to acknowledge how complex the trends can be.
"Faux sophistication" — and that is quite a charge for Will to be lobbing — is a term that might be better applied to the glib explanations given to students about how it is a privilege to pay interest for decades.
It has the flashback-and-forward time structure familiar from Ray and Walk The Line, and the same tendency to seek glib "explanations" where only unfathomable enigmas are to be found.
Some glib explanations were offered by more reactionary industry pundits when Clint Eastwood's American Sniper (Warner, 15) stormed the US box office in January, most of them relating to the professed politics of the director rather than those of his tersely thoughtful, morally ambiguous film.
