(1) Skylight review – Nighy and Mulligan in moving mixture of politics and love | Michael Billington Read more Commentators write glibly about the public’s increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians’ growing contempt for us.
(2) This throwing of things glibly open to one member, one vote is a disaster.
(3) Asked by a member of the audience how he had handled rehearsals for a group of actors that includes Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck and Precious's Gabourey Sidibe , Ratner responded glibly: "Rehearsal?
(4) It is hard to escape the conclusion that the FA makes life unnecessarily difficult for itself when it glibly states that it wants the best man for the job regardless of nationality.
(5) Look at Iowa, glibly characterised as reactionary but which "had all these splendid deep impulses in its legal system that just sort of got papered over".
(6) Comparisons with Hitler and Mussolini have been made so often and so glibly that they tend to obscure rather than clarify.
(7) Stoate, the former MP for Dartford, writes in the Guardian that doctors do not "glibly accept every aspect of the health bill; it clearly has many inherent problems".
(8) The final, stunning plank in the trinity of Lithuanian exercises in Soviet memory is Grutas Park , known slightly glibly to some as "Stalin's World".
(9) This does not mean we glibly accept every aspect of the health bill; it clearly has many inherent problems.
(10) In three days, she will be presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace and later meet Prince Charles, not as the submissive consort that some glibly predicted, but as an equal partner of her husband, Bashar.
(11) Only last week he upbraided the comedian and actor, Russell Brand (video) on air for admitting that he has never voted and glibly predicting a revolution ("it is totally going to happen").
(12) You have to acknowledge the responsibility – that if you're going to go into a serious area you're not going to do it glibly."
(13) Tobacco has been glibly referred to as a form of revenge by native Indians.
(14) But this mutual shyness helps, allowing McGrath to ease himself into talking deeply rather than rattling through a list of questions which want him to explain glibly how an illustrious career, culminating in two World Cup finals tournaments for the Republic of Ireland and the 1993 PFA Player of the Year award, was framed by alcoholism, two divorces and four attempts to end his life.
(15) We live in a liberal democracy, but, with recent lurches to the right, here and abroad, you don't need to be Philip K Dick to imagine the information you gave up so glibly being used against you by a Farage-led dictatorship.
(16) Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders , to give them their full, glibly Orwellian name, are public-private partnerships in a selection of cities and conurbations from Birmingham northwards, which entailed the demolition and – in theory – replacement of housing in working-class areas.
(17) The market is under review by the Competition Commission, but Hastings, if a little glibly, believes he can muscle his way in with the power of money.
(18) Consider the following positions, towards which most glibly segue.
(19) Ashworth added: “Instead, Mr Hunt glibly told parliament that ‘some correspondence in the mail redirection service has not reached the intended recipients’.
(20) That is why I was very surprised to read about a survey conducted by Radio 4’s The Human Zoo , which found a large number of people are disheartened by the present and view their past with a nostalgia that glibly tries to defy the scrutiny of history’s rough edges.
Patter
Definition:
(v. i.) To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
(v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
(v. i.) To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.
(v. t.) To spatter; to sprinkle.
(v. i.) To mutter; as prayers.
(n.) A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.
(n.) Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.
(n.) The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.
Example Sentences:
(1) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
(2) When the effects of clonidine on food-reinforced operant responding were investigated it was observed that SD and SH rats differed with regard to rate and temporal pattering of IRT greater than 20 sec responding.
(3) However, despite the visibility of some Russians in the capital, Cameron's 2011 sales patter did not turn Russia into a major destination for British exporters: German machine tools and French military aircraft are worth far more to Russia than British goods.
(4) The actor Steven Berkoff, who had met Biggs in 1987, when making a film about him that both agreed was "a load of cobblers", praised his "most terrific patter".
(5) This raised the possibility that some selection or strengthening of this unspecific patter is involved in the evolution of the specific membrane patterns of the individual cells of higher organisms.
(6) The polypeptide patter of SMRV as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was distinct from the reported polypeptide patterns of known retraviruses.
(7) As for Boris Johnson, the Labour MP Rupa Huc reminded Radio 4 listeners that the London mayor has a line of patter in “ flag-waving piccaninnies ” and “watermelon smiles”.
(8) Little hands pattered on the walls, and little voices outside persisted: "Do you speak English?
(9) And when they emerge into the daylight, the chancellor could, once again, be left looking like a salesman who can’t resist overdoing the patter.
(10) Blackburn's transatlantic DJ's patter is currently one of the prolific voices on Audioboo.
(11) The fascinating pitter-patter of stomach contents against the back of your teeth as a fearsome torrent of spew erupts from within like a liquid poltergeist fleeing an exorcism.
(12) Although total weight loss during starvation was never greater for HFD rats than for chow-fed rats, the former group showed a clear patter of increasing loss of body fat and total energy and conservation of fat-free tissues with periods of starvation later in life.
(13) The main psychiatric findings are diminished intelligence, retardation in development of secondary sexual characteristics, and poor emotional control leading to inadequate social adaptive patters which are described and discussed.
(14) The normal patter of joint incongruity in the rabbit's hip having first been established, three groups of experimental animals underwent operative procedures designed to reduce the joint pressure to a level unrealistic in normal life.
(15) The following constellations proved to be useful in assessing the effect of secretolytic drugs: (1) change in deposition patter; (2) clearance rate, if no change in deposition takes place; (3) clearance rate from a peripheral area of the lung.
(16) Next week the directors are heading to the US, to give the same sales patter to investors who have asked to see them in New York, Denver, Chicago, California and Boston.
(17) His well-rehearsed patter about his record does not mention the toll on jobs.
(18) The blotting patters obtained were correlated with the clinical findings, with particular reference to prodromal itching, lesion morphology and severity, mucosal involvement, presence of milia, dapsone responsiveness and disease duration.
(19) The rain was falling on the canvas with a pattering sound.
(20) Bill’s weary patter last night on the subjects of working families, and something something community-and-something-something-renewable-energy targets may be carefully constructed verbiage to target we-share-your-concerns to swinging voters, but Labor’s present strategy wholly avoids speaking to those that Labor crucially needs to deliver both an election win and a majority large enough to ensure space for policy implementation and future planning.