Sentences with phrase «flippant tone»

Her funny and flippant tone lures you to learn about adventurous eating.

You can put that flippant tone in front of anything!

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.

It had a guarded, flippant tone, echoing her mood.

Not exact matches

But King Ahab knows Micaiah better than this (and I imagine that Micaiah's tone of voice of flippant and sarcastic), so King Ahab says, «Stop lying to me.

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).

Written in a familiar, conversational, omniscient point of view, the contemporary novel's tone is witty, flippant, and entertaining.

So, next time some idiot says to you in some flippant manner, «You should self publish your novel,» tell them they should run a marathon in the same tone they used with you.