Sentences with phrase «flippant when»

I always felt a little flippant when everyone suggested counseling.

It causes you to be flippant when you're dealing with «surprise» or «additional» money, like your bonuses, or your gambling gains.

Not exact matches

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

«It's not just semantics — the flippant use of that word immediately degrades the conversation into platitudes when there is real nuanced discourse that should be happening, and that can lead to better informed creators and viewers,» he said.

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.

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

As Dan and I enter that stage of life when we will likely start a family, we want to raise our kids in a community of Christ - followers where diversity is celebrated, questions are welcomed, and differences are handled with love and respect... not flippant «farewells.»

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.

If I wanted to be flippant, I'd say «Ask me when my son turns 18.»

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 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.

When typing messages, cute comments not intended to offend can sometimes come across as flippant or unprofessional.

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 sorry to be flippant, but all I could think of when I read this article was my absolute favorite book of all time: Daniel Pinkwater's Author's Day.

persiflage [pur - suh - flahzh] NOUN From the French persifler, to banter, and per -, thoroughly 1) Light, good - natured bantering, often somewhat mocking or using a flippant style; friendly teasing 2) Discussing a subject with a frivolous or flippant style When he brought home an award for being the fastest talker in the class, John faced a barrage of persiflage -LSB-...]

When the narrator finally makes it to her aunt's house, she is caught in the flippant social whirl and to a certain degree comes to enjoy it.

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

Often these patients have suffered because of the negligence of the surgeon, but when I ask the question without any intent to seem flippant, «How are you doing now?»

He also said he had been «too flippant» in 2016 when he dismissed the idea that fake news could influence an election as «crazy.»

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 mean to sound flippant, but I was in a good mood when I decided to write this post, so my erratic sense of humour got the best of me.