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".
As the actor sat up in his chair and affected a "glib, oily voice," Norton began saying, "For a while we were describing it as a story about two friends who start an amateur boxing club for disadvantaged young men..."...
In his 1935 short story "Golden Land, William Faulknerr, who loathed the time he spent writing movie scripts, described "white villas whose owners' names and faces and even voices were glib and familiar in back corners of the United States where those of Einstein and Rousseau and Aesculapius had never been sounded".
The book's cacophony of glib, abrasive and evilly funny voices creates a vision of soullessness colliding with mortality.
It's just a shame that that voice frequently sounds so glib.
Sometimes Marie's voice feels a little glib; cool for cool's sake.
"It couldn't help but creep in that his shit is authentic and mine's not, all right, or his shit is deep and I'm glib, all right," Tarantino says, his voice rising as he works himself up about it.
And her gravelly, skeptical voice lends conviction to even the glibbest one-liners.
The garrulous Englishman's narration, glib in the novel, thus became a guilt-racked voice-over confession in the film.
And speaking of "Idol," here too was Haley Reinhart, belting the blues in her precocious-child voice, and warbling "God Bless the Child" in a glib evocation of Billie Holiday, as seen on TV.
She can be a little glib at times, a little too fond of her own tone of voice and of her smart-aleck phrasemaking.
