"It's been a war since 1994," says Mr. Lederman, slender and strident with a graying beard and a glib speaking manner.
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.
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.
Try to be glib while speaking out with your subject.
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".
After all, schools have traditionally been synonymous with a hushed subservience reflected in the Industrial Age's glib commands: "Do not slouch"; "Respect your elders"; "Speak when spoken to" — notions that some educators still find worthwhile today.
"Nigger" is implied, but Anderson veers away from it at the last minute, aware that if it were spoken it would break through the movie's glib veneer and expose the mean fairy tale at its heart.
To speak in glib generalities, the Democratic party is generically seen as the party of civil rights.
I can only guess, because they speak in the glib riddles of beauty queens, c1985 vintage.
