Sentences with phrase «flippant about»

There is nothing flippant about this, and I fear that we treat this responsibility far too lightly.

Not only does it remain oddly silent on Kerrigan, but it feels flippant about domestic abuse, with Harding's violent relationships with both her mother and husband frequently played off as pantomime slapstick.

I don't mean to be flippant about one of Shakespeare's greatest hits, it's just one of those stories that I think has been done to death.

God Help the Girl is a story that doesn't get too blogged down with the more serious issues of Eve's anorexia and depression, while also not being flippant about the topic.

I simply don't think that people should be flippant about rape any more than they should pedophilia.

Who would be so flippant about the lives of a woman and her child to actually attempt that?

Let's not be flippant about him being like a new signing eh?

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

So maybe us Arsenal fans should be so flippant about the «Wenger trophy» and realise just how important it really is.

I don't want to be too flippant about this, but Christianity is or should always be counter-cultural so if you aren't being persecuted a bit there's something wrong.

I don't mean to be stupidly flippant about holy scripture.

When Trump boasted on Friday that trade wars are «good and easy to win,» he seemed remarkably flippant about a situation that could deeply affect the US and global economy.

«There's this idea that people are flippant about office romance,» says Olen.

«They were somewhat flippant about [it],» said Sanderson.

When handing over your business cards or receiving them from others, don't be flippant about it.

Get her talking about the philanthropic impact of her work — with every sale, each of her brands contributes to a related cause in the developing world — and it's apparent there's nothing at all flippant about her audacity.

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

When I hear flippant statements about sexual assault, it makes me angry.

I'm really sorry about being ambiguous and flippant.

... The Jews (just like the church now) got flippant concerning divorce... I feel Jesus didn't have to mention homosexuality because the Law was clear to any Jew at that time... Paul had to mention it because he was an apostle to the Gentiles who I think were more prone to homosexuality behavior... I'm though not as learned as you... just my thought after 15 years of thinking about this issue... The church has a sacred duty to all... even gays... we need a unified loving answer to give them... but it must be the truth... because only the truth can set us free...

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

again and again at the poor dog, Justin says that most of the Christians in his life were «South Park» Christians who responded to his agonizing questions about his future with a flippant, «Don't be gay!»

Buckley bore the gravest moral objections to abortion, and he expressed his deep incredulity with the decision: It seemed to betray, he thought, a flippant disregard for the facts known well to embryology about the development of the child in the womb.

I am NOT being flippant and I urge you to really think about the truth of what I have written, if you want us to regain our place in the very top strata, which we are getting further and still further away from each season this cancerous regime remains.

It's a bit of a flippant comment by him about Chelsea trying to buy him.

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.

I am not a medical professional, so please correct me if I am wrong, but we do understand how much of an important role that stress hormones play in labour — the way medical professionals do talk about birth in terms of risk without paying attention to emotions (I am getting this from a somewhat flippant comment earlier on this thread where the author says the would like to see 100 % c - section rate) does exacerbate the problem.

Because we... to what we were talking about earlier, we don't know everybody's backgrounds that are coming into this conversation so we may say something really flippant that we normally only say around friends without really considering who else is out there that might be impacted by it.

I told her that if I had known that birth is about so much more than just «getting the baby out,» that if I had known that I would be processing and working through my feelings about that birth experience for the rest of my life, then I would never have been so flippant, so unattached and uninvolved, so dangerously naive in my preparation for my daughter's birth.

[122] The local Conservative branch were split over Johnson's candidacy; some found him amusing and charming, while others were critical of his flippant attitude to serious matters and his lack of knowledge about the local area, although he was nevertheless selected.

«It's much too soon to start making video games about a war that's still going on, and an extremely flippant response to one of the most important events in modern history,» he said.

Then, last week, a New York reporter tried to ask the «not - taking - questions governor» what he was going to do about the fact Niagara Falls has now lost revenue and is struggling and he... laughed... and then made some flippant comment about how Niagara Falls can pay «him» because he lost revenue too.

Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College, told POLITICO New York, «I think his flippant comments about police stem not from any particular bias but from a lack of concern about propriety and independence.»

«People will make some flippant comment, then come back months later with an idea about how to make it work,» says Alexander Rose, a codesigner and executive director of the Long Now Foundation, which finances the clock.

Harvard sleep scientist Steven Lockley says NASA simply doesn't take human factors as seriously as it should, adopting our culture's flippant «I'll sleep when I'm dead» attitude about getting rest.

A Single Mom's View of Autism Divorce Rates Consider some of our flippant views about marriage and commitment against the last decade of autism in the Hey guys!

The bombast of the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises might suggest no, but after an uninspired year for animated movies, The Lego Movie is a 3 - D animated film that connects, as an homage to the ingenious Danish - born construction game, along with a subversively flippant story about thinking outside the blocks.

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).

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

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

At its best, it's flippant fun, but with its depiction of a hateful, haughty, tortured artist who is losing touch with reality, it feels much more like a film about Woody Allen than it does Godard.

If there's a way to tell a story about cancer, avoiding downbeat despair and plugging in distinctly English humor without seeming flippant or anything less than honest, director Catherine Hardwicke and screenwriter Morwenna Banks (whose 2013 BBC radio play «Goodbye» was the inspiration) do it well, finding a tricky balance between dignified and accessible.

But more than about a boy becoming a man, Giuseppe Tornatore's film is also about the power of perception, and how most flippant of nasty speculations can send someone toward destruction.

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

An emotional heart - to - heart between Shaun and a dying Philip marks a bit of a turn; «Shaun of the Dead» has been flippant and fairly light - hearted about the violence around our characters up to this point, but in its second half, it begins to affect them in genuinely wrenching ways.

The flippant way in which the cast talks about the characters underscores this movie's disrespectful treatment of them, but I will say that Poehler is really funny throughout all of her interview and recording segments.

And when Nick Gibb was asked about exam stress at the Education Select Committee by NUT members recently elected to it, he made a flippant remark about children needing to do more tests so they get used to the tests, get used to the stress.

Partly because the brothers come off as young, flippant, and less reverent than they actually are about the Alfa.

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In other words: it is about deep foundational things, not about flippant surface level tactics of promotion.