Sentences with phrase «flippant humor»

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

It's Howard's more workmanlike, less antic sensibility that infuses «Solo» and, in many cases, drags it down, with the few remaining traces of quippy, flippant humor either falling flat or sounding hopelessly derivative.

Not exact matches

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.