Sentence examples for glib one-liners from inspiring English sources

"Thor: Ragnarok" has a bouncy humor that depends far less on glib one-liners than on gleeful tweaks of action, jack-in-the-box surprises, and candy-colored blasts and swirls of light.

By Richard Brody November 3, 2017 "Thor: Ragnarok" has a bouncy humor that depends far less on glib one-liners than on gleeful tweaks of action, jack-in-the-box surprises, and candy-colored blasts and swirls of light.

You could say that his style depends heavily on glib one-liners, but you'd have to stop laughing first.

Try and pepper your work with random character motifs and glib one-liners (see point 7), and keep going.

There are glib one-liners; rampant literary references, from the casual dropped-name school to the more seriously considered.

Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull told Sky News, in response to Mr Abbott's column, his "glib one-liners" could be interpreted as playing right into the hands of terrorists.

Waititi realizes these set pieces, the movie's compulsory routines, with bouncy humor that depends far less on Twitter-glib one-liners in the language of screenwriterese than on gleeful tweaks of action, jack-in-the-box surprises, and candy-colored blasts and swirls of light.

And her gravelly, skeptical voice lends conviction to even the glibbest one-liners.

And there the story might have ended, as a glib one-liner for a brash blind broadcaster boosting his income with after-dinner speeches; except that in the following year, Mum got pregnant again.

Mr. Bloomberg, by contrast, largely avoided attacks during his half-hour, except to criticize Mr. Green for not debating him yesterday, saying that voters had a right to see an exchange of ideas and compare the candidates, "not see who is more glib and gives the best one-liners".

Julian Stallabrass, a leftwing art critic you should read if you can, got Saatchi's measure a decade ago when he described the Britart Saatchi promoted as the equivalent of tabloid headlines or a standup's one-liners: cheap and sensational; glib and ignorant – "high art lite" to use Stallabrass's wonderfully dismissive put-down.