Sentences with phrase «flippant people»

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

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.

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

They make ppl mad with their banners and signs, they are flippant, rude, and off putting.

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

Forgive me for sounding a little flippant but I'll not take too much of your time to describe our new Piano - man — real name Mavropanos — because my knowledge is extremely limited of the Greek game and all I'd be doing is rehashing information from other people on the web.

I figure most of the people who rattle off that kind of flippant comment are fine with babies dying and long as it is someone else's baby dying.

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

«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.

«People make these flippant comments that science is not reproducible.

No one wants to deal with those inquiries from people that are flippant in their approach.

Not only did it trump Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — a film that is flippant and exploitative in its exploration of race in America — but it relays the constant microaggressions that come with being a person of colour in the West and in a wildly original and entertaining way.

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).

These flippant responses should be seen by more people than just us on this website.

But worst of all is your flippant remark «those suffering as a result of dangerous climate change» (i.e. nobody)» What about the people suffering from increased droughts, or floods, or sea - level rises?

Because this is Good Friday, a holiday, and a serious one for many people, this won't be a flippant fillip.

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.

And yet, Alwaleed's flippant criticism articulated precisely what so many people love about cryptocurrency.

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.

One study found that people perceive those who use innocuous lines as smarter and sexier than those who use cute / flippant lines.

The researchers argue that when it comes to cute / flippant openers, less mental effort is required to figure out the persons» intentions.

I don't say this to be flippant but because many people assume crowdfunding is something different, its not really just a new format and distribution channel.