Sentences with phrase «less flippant»

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

The horrors of the world she inhabits, too, are far meatier and less flippant than something like Atomic Blonde but with multiple sexual assault scenes, extreme torture, violence and gore it's not exactly a bunch of laughs.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Partly because the brothers come off as young, flippant, and less reverent than they actually are about the Alfa.

But flippant responses like this help explain why less than 30 % of the students in our most recent survey (October, 2013) told an adult about their experience with bullying.

Those whose brains were cognitively taxed were less receptive to cute / flippant openers compared with those in the non-depletion condition.

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

Even though flippant lines made men seem outgoing and humorous, they also made them seem less trustworthy and less intelligent.