Sentences with word «flippant»

We saw this year's Olympic coverage threaded with a constant flow of flippant comments about rain and fog.

Someone on the Cavs promo team is too flippant about domestic violence.

A woman makes flippant remarks about leaving her husband if he doesn't get back to working for a living.

The type of debt that causes me concern is National Debt and the tendency of some leaders, politicians and bankers to make light of a problem that will eventually catch up and hit us full - on with a somewhat flippant attitude to economic growth.

The voice here is the snarky and sassy female one that's in so many urban fantasies, so that didn't really feel distinct... plus, she's almost a tad too flippant in some circumstances.

What's left, then, is this amalgamation of humanity, people doing bad things to other people without really enduring any consequences for them (the one punishment a main character actually receives is treated with flippant disregard).

At the risk of sounding flippant, I know 99 % of what I need to know about personal finance.

As flippant as it sounds, as soon as the coin lands, you'll either be relieved or wish it had landed on the other side.

Was I too flippant ignorant as a consumer?

I never needed to hear the casual, flippant response of «well, I'm praying for you» at the conclusion of the conversation.

I recently told a friend that she didn't know what I'd been through after making flippant comments about me leaving.

Snapchat tells me the pricing is designed to be both affordable enough for the masses so custom lenses generate revenue, and to deter spam and flippant use of the platform.

People like you are so flippant with the term statistics, and it makes me think that you fail to understand the depth and complexity of the field.

If your experience seems skewed toward protecting the company, you may seem flippant toward the community.

You are being a little flippant with the whole «don't worry the Volt will be fine».

User DDfnord says «any show of anger or flippant disregard» is a major turn - off.

Seem a bit flippant?

It's not flippant about the subject, either.

Even though flippant lines made men seem outgoing and humorous, they also made them seem less trustworthy and less intelligent.

For this reason, I find Paul J. Griffiths» somewhat flippant remark that the analogy of the Good Samaritan applies «not at all [to] the U.S. Army» to be ill thought out.

I think that's why I wrote those first few paragraphs, including the one about the hierarchy of diapering choices, in such a brisk, flippant way.

Carl Sagan has shifted from a rather flippant dismissal of Christianity to eagerness to work with churches.

Second, it was a rather flippant remark, not meant to be taken seriously.

Such flippant remarks are not fair to those who do not have resources for private schools and must rely on public schools.

With his cool, flippant manner, his Holmes stands apart from the danger, thinking it through visually before performing it, remaining insouciant in the face of calamity.

In Death Wish, though, the increasingly antic comedy collides with Willis's dead - eyed demeanor, which casts a psychotic, unfeeling pall over Paul's snappy one - liners that's never reconciled with Roth and Carnahan's flippant view of violence and vigilantism.

Watson struck a deliberately flippant tone in the second half of his letter, which features a recommendation that Miliband watch the «awesome band» Drenge and that he goes to Glastonbury.

Payne's heart might have been in the right place with this one, but the execution feels flippant at best.

Many psychopaths also tend to exhibit impulsiveness, and are flippant toward social norms and rules.

Yet even with less flippant humor, more blood and (gasp!)

The only real difference is in how flippant people on dating sites can be, whereas back in the day.

The blasé and flippant depiction of the violence and sexual violence used against the women is an almost titillating detail used to assist the faux gothic visual flourishes.

That short flippant answer just makes you look weak, and weakens your»cause»???

I always felt a little flippant when everyone suggested counseling.

His distant, almost flippant demeanour in Human Revolution made a degree of sense considering the events early in that game, but on the back of the Aug Incident and his personal investment, his almost sociopathic failure to address these events beyond mere lip service makes his attitude all the more bizarre.

They are flippant words to be sure, but the notion of the rogue trader has played heavily on the media's penchant for storytelling.

This James Bond outing, starring Daniel Craig in the title role, features less flippant humor, more blood and (gasp!)

It's been a heck of a day for Paul Christoforo, whose flippant email to a customer asking about his Avenger controller order has made Christoforo a walking memetic punchline.

Those whose brains were cognitively taxed were less receptive to cute / flippant openers compared with those in the non-depletion condition.

Women are rightfully skeptical of cute / flippant pick - up lines: Research shows that those with a long - term mating strategy tend to use supportive and honest pick - up strategies, whereas those with a short - term strategy tend to use manipulation and dishonesty.

Letter XI of The Screwtape Letters, in which Screwtape distinguishes between the «Joke Proper» and «Flippancy,» is relevant here: «Among flippant people the Joke is always assumed to have been made.

Here I should add something flippant about how much drinking water can be spoiled by how little dirt.

Isn't this the same flippant flipper who has taken on an online crusade to publicize his 3D nightmares about Omar Khar?

In its use of flippant humour to deal with dark subject matter, the film has a similar tone to that of the satirical 1990s Holly Hunter drama, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader - Murdering Mom (based on a similar story about a mother accused of having her daughter's classmate bumped off to improve the daughter's chances of making the cheerleading team).

The movie's characters are occasionally flippant within the strict confines of the material, but the movie is rarely jokey about itself.

Our tour of the museum is languorously guided by a contentious European diplomat, played by classically trained actor Sergey Dreyden, whose opinion of Russian culture is at once thoroughly flippant yet candidly curious.

Whether we buy this connection between a man and the city / country of which he isn't a part isn't entirely crucial to appreciating the story, but it is worth noting that Gilroy and director Brad Anderson have provided this convenient, rather flippant link as a sort of shortcut to establishing both the character and the conflict.

Of the four male leads, he towers about his fellow actors with the best and most flippant lines.

I'm being a little flippant here, but it's important to remember there are a few important price points.