It provides an often eerily psychic service, offering up insight, midrash, candor and submerged truth instead of my glib spoken words.
Try to be glib while speaking out with your subject.
This is not glib; it speaks to a deeper truth, however trite it may be: namely, that one man's villain is invariably another man's hero.
Indeed, there's no greater scrambler of comedic intention that the Internet, which, with its dead-fish tone, can saddle comments that might have been breezy and glib when spoken ("You're insane!") with 700 pounds of unintended gravity ("You're insane") when written.
To speak in glib generalities, the Democratic party is generically seen as the party of civil rights.
The actors, speaking in East African accents, are committed and effective, if occasionally one-note; Brutus (Paterson Joseph) verges on glib, Cassius (Cyril Nri) looks startled, Mark Antony Ray Fearonn) preens and yells.
As a verb, to articulate means "to enunciate clearly" or "to express well in words"; as an adjective, articulate is "well spoken," sometimes even "glib".
The performance — scheduled for only one night, with a second added on Sunday because of public demand — was called "You're Causing Quite a Disturbance," after a line spoken by a glib male voice during an interlude on "New Amerykah".
Like Cordelia, Lear's true-hearted youngest daughter, rejected for plain speaking, he lacks "That glib and oily art/ To speak and purpose not," and finds an eloquence in silence -- his most revealing moments are seldom his loudest.
Shakespeare described John McCain's reaction to Obama's eloquent speeches, indicating a hint of jealousy from the ole' war horse: "I want that glib and oily art -- to speak and purpose not" (King Lear).
