Sentences with phrase «flippant at»

I no longer regard the idea as flippant at all.

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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.

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

... 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...

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.

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!»

As a Christian, I understand that life begins at conception, (I don't care how wicked men define when life begins) and such a flippant disregard for human life to the point of willful and guiltless murder is demonic.

But if it doesn't come off, then sometimes people can look at it and say he is being flippant.

It may be being flippant but at times it was Total Football from the Whites at times.

Having your baby at home is like driving your child without a seatbelt (This is the latest flippant simile from a doctor in Australia.

Gordon Brown's bigot gaffe might seem flippant, but it could destroy Labour's chances at the election.

Not to be flippant but usually the chain is from donor to some ngo or un agency to leader's pockets (look at yassir arafats net worth).

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.»

In an attempt to be funny, the script uses flippant, silly dialogue and takes a few lowball jabs at Twilight.

Deadpool 2 is intentionally pretty flippant with its narrative stakes, so knowing that the Merc is going to die at some point doesn't really take anything away from your enjoyment while watching the film, but it is extremely Deadpool - core to have the star «jokingly» spoil the actual events of the film.

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.

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.

A sub-genre that began as a flippant remark by writer Curt Siodmak to «Wolfman» director George Waggner back in 1943, the verbal gag inadvertently spawned the studio's first ghoulish combo, «Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman,» and enjoyed a good run over the next decade through various recombinations, adding Abbot & Costello when dopey humour was the only element that could milk a little more money before the genre's official retirement at the studio.

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.

I'm tempted to be flippant and say «forty percent» and leave it at that.

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

I was being somewhat flippant with the O'Reilly comment... but then again look at the corporate histories, note the O'Reilly modus operandi which is to build an empire fuelled by excessive debt, and ask yourself who comes out wealthier from an O'Reilly company..?!

When a Costa Rican utters «Pura Vida» it's not a flippant term tossed at your feet.

He's flippant, funny in a darkly sarcastic way and dangerously human, a physical challenge and intensely intimidating, while at other times his emotions get the better of him.

They have a goofy quality that feels calculated without coming across as flippant, and they're really, really enjoyable to look at.

From makeup to celebrity culture, these artists mine «girly» motifs — often ignored or dismissed as flippant and unserious by the art world — to explore issues of gendered expectations and pressures women face through representations of women in the media and culture at large.

Tar Sands Environmental Destruction Not Worth It At the risk of sounding flippant, sounds like too little too late: I'll stand by the WWF's assessment that the economic and environmental costs of continuing to develop tar sands and oil shales — in energy speak «unconventional fuels» — are simply unthinkable.

Personally, I'm left flabbergasted at the amount of work that Briffa seems to have done into identifying the pitfalls of these techniques, re-identified by Steve et al., and the apparent flippant treatment of these problems in the production of the reconstructions themselves: /.

At the risk of seeming flippant, I can't help but remember how this was covered in Tim Burton's «Mars Attacks!»

During a break in the proceeding, the lawyer made a flippant comment related to the client's background in an ill - conceived attempt at humour.

At the risk of being flippant, most everyone has to wear work clothes of some sort that are not the clothes they would wear on a day to day basis.

-- Chief Risk Guy «It's hard for us, and without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing one dollar in any of those transactions...» Joseph Cassano «That's why I am sleeping a little bit easier at night.»

People will analyze the actual impact of this for a long time to come, but what I think was clear at this point is that it was too flippant.

«But what I think is clear at this point is that it was too flippant and I should never have referred to it as crazy.»

My answer, at the time, was honest but a little flippant: nine years.

After the writing task, participants looked at a picture of an attractive opposite - sex person and rated how they would respond if the person approached them, using one of three categories of openers: direct, innocuous, or cute / flippant.