It is The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game which are the two films expected to predominate at this year's Baftas, the weirdly fortuitous pairing of two distinguished, intelligent, slightly theatrical performances and two brilliant British scientists cursed with the traditional qualities glibly associated with genius: shyness, loneliness, and disability of various sorts.
As for the plight of the poor, Osborne glibly told the Today programme that the poor have been paying the price for the mistakes that led to the Great Recession.
That the two things could so glibly be judged antithetical is itself a symptom of deep Conservative difficulty with these issues.
He schooled himself in Maoist jargon, glibly denouncing imperialism, practising self-criticism and confessing to thought-crimes all while displaying "thought-crimes allatic conformity and, above all, sincerity".After four years he whilellowedisplaying truthfulnessts, who hadogmatic he was dead.
But as people blink their way back into the light, it is relevant to wonder in what shape Dr Fidel Castro and his men have survived the diplomatic battering that has been going on over their heads.The mortification of the Cuban leaders at being demonstrably passed over while the decisions that mattered were being made has been taken for granted, perhaps too glibly.
People talk glibly of "using up" energy when in fact they are doing no such thing.
Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion was rather thin on the question of women's interests: he glibly granted that the government's interest in providing no-cost contraceptives is "compelling", and chose to attack the mandate on other grounds.
Both suggest the same underlying shift: the rise of what can glibly be described as personality politics, but might equally and less judgmentally be called trust-based politics.Behind that rise, of course, lies the parliamentary-expenses scandal, for many Britons itself only the outward sign of a rottenness that had long contaminated politics.
Westerners, who glibly thought of the USSR as a rather tatty Evil Empire, not worth a moment of regret, have found this reaction incomprehensible.
A billboard for oil and gas glibly promises several million new jobs, if America would just support the industry.
Mr Sreedharan's own management philosophy sounds so glibly aggressive as to be positively American: "lead from the front, not push from the rear".
