The Boston Globe's Ty Burr gave the film a rating of 2.5 out 4 and said, "If Elgort's Gus is glibly charming and ultimately affecting, "The Fault in Our Stars" belongs to Woodley, a performer who always seems to be backing warily into her own movies".
The family's screaming fights may be glibly contrived (no pausing there), but the miseries of an aspiring actor's life feel genuine.
And Vidal captures much of Truman's insecure doggedness as well, even if he is glibly dismissive of Truman's abilities.
Another forerunner is Fellini's "8 ½," whose theme of creative blockage is glibly recycled in Charles's futile struggle to come up with a cover concept for an album by his best friend, Kirby Star Jason Schwartzmann), a bushy-haired comedic rocker.
If it weren't disturbing it would be amusing that politicians and policy makers are glibly assaulting -- almost on a daily basis -- programs and entitlements for older adults.
There is no doubt that Stone's writing can at times be glibly clever; every now and again there is a flash of the AJP Taylor whom Stone so much admires (on 1940: "A Bismarck or a Churchill could control success of this order, a Hitler not").
The feeling of the restaurant, which sprawls across two levels and is festooned with silk-screen prints and basket lamps and acres of raw wood and clay, might be glibly likened to Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, if Mr. Samuelsson, and his menu, weren't so earnest.
They might be glibly dismissed as hipsters, but Newcastle's creatives (many of them natives) are generally unpretentious doers working on shoestring budgets.
The road from here to there — or there to here, as it's turned out — was long and unknowable and not to be glibly compressed.
By contrast, Cliff is glibly over-confident.
