Sentences with phrase «making flippant»

I recently told a friend that she didn't know what I'd been through after making flippant comments about me leaving.

Then, last week, a New York reporter tried to ask the «not - taking - questions governor» what he was going to do about the fact Niagara Falls has now lost revenue and is struggling and he... laughed... and then made some flippant comment about how Niagara Falls can pay «him» because he lost revenue too.

«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.

A woman makes flippant remarks about leaving her husband if he doesn't get back to working for a living.

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.

Recently I was talking to a sculptor friend and made a flippant remark that it seemed to me as if «abstract painting is back.»

My second urge was to make some flippant remark such as, «Wow, the guy's discovered perpetual motion», but I won't.

During a break in the proceeding, the lawyer made a flippant comment related to the client's background in an ill - conceived attempt at humour.

Not exact matches

From Bill Cosby's now - legendary social media missteps, flippant tweets that resulted in firings, to Facebook official relationships sometimes carrying more weight than actually committing, social media is what you make of it, either on purpose or by accident.

Sadly, it's not uncommon to hear of employees who have lost their jobs over flippant comments made via personal social media accounts.

November 2016 — Zuckerberg describes the idea that fake news on Facebook's platform could have influenced the outcome of the US election as «a pretty crazy idea» — a comment he later says he regrets making, saying it was «too flippant» and a mistake

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

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

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.

You don't suspect Jurgen Klopp will be quite so flippant this time, and the good news for Liverpool fans is that by the time their group games come around this term, peace may have been made with Philippe Coutinho.

I saw that this morning and nearly spit my coffee out over the flippant attitude by the reporter and the statement she made inferring that the section was the safest way since they predicted the baby to be too big and she was overdue.

You don't want to be flippant and make the situation worse.

«Keeping the lights on» might seem like a flippant cliché to some, but it is a serious business for those tasked with making sure there is enough electricity to go round over the next century or so.

«It's much too soon to start making video games about a war that's still going on, and an extremely flippant response to one of the most important events in modern history,» he said.

11:55 - Theresa Villiers, who always looks like a ghost frightened of its own reflection, is just finishing up Northern Ireland questions, where they are debating issues of such substance it makes the rest of the UK's business seem flippant.

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).

If we were flippant we would have said that District 9 is the best South African science fiction movie ever made (it is also the only South African SF movie ever made).

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.

While Fama's answer may seem flippant, it touches on the same point that both that Ludwin made - Bitcoin's price depends on its adoption.

The type of debt that causes me concern is National Debt and the tendency of some leaders, politicians and bankers to make light of a problem that will eventually catch up and hit us full - on with a somewhat flippant attitude to economic growth.

Adrenaline junkies tend to make a bee - line for Ibiza Town due to the array of fun and flippant things they can do, both by night and — as highlighted above — by day.

In that sense it is positively part of the larger chorus of game - making in that O'Reilly is happily placing Mountain in contraposition to both the flippant anti-games of 2014 but also the larger movements from bigger game makers that seek to give players more and more granular control over their digital existences.

His distant, almost flippant demeanour in Human Revolution made a degree of sense considering the events early in that game, but on the back of the Aug Incident and his personal investment, his almost sociopathic failure to address these events beyond mere lip service makes his attitude all the more bizarre.

As a material «insensibl [e] to contradiction», wax's ability to take imprints of the unique landmarks of the skin connects it to strategies of surveillance and data collection that measure visual, behavioural or chemical characteristics, connecting Hershman Leeson's hotel tableau to her later invented character.14 The artist described Roberta Breitmore as «my flippant effigy» and «a dark, shadowy, animus cadaver».15 Similarly, The Dante Hotel was for the artist simultaneously a scene of death and «a means of survival».16 As such Thek's and Hershman Leeson's volatile effigies connect two very different bodies of work and different political movements — the counterculture, gay rights, women's liberation — to make visible the restraints placed on the subject.

Despite their flippant, crude, or «devil - may - care» appearance, his pieces explore deep social and personal territory and are often made in collaboration with members of his family, friends and even complete strangers.

Stockton's flippant remarks overlook the fact that coal, oil, and natural gas make up over 81 percent of the energy consumed in the U.S., as the following chart shows:

Without meaning to be rude or flippant, it seems to me that you are now deliberately avoiding this by discussing generalities and claiming that I am somehow making the conversation lose focus.

It's been a heck of a day for Paul Christoforo, whose flippant email to a customer asking about his Avenger controller order has made Christoforo a walking memetic punchline.

Wylie responded to questions through his lawyer, Tamsin Allen, who noted that her client «has made several flippant and stupid comments in text messages and instant messages, which he regrets.»

If your wording comes across as flippant or careless, you may need to revise your resume to make it sound more professional.

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

An empty apology might make things worse, so don't say you're sorry in a flippant or insincere way.

Judges will all too often make insensitive and flippant remarks to both parents such as «knock your heads together and try and work this out!»