Sentences with phrase «with flippant»

But with her flippant response, I have no interest in recommending her to anyone.

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That being said, Rocketbirds 2's story is meatier - no pun intended - than the original's, which was content with ending the story with a flippant «Welp.

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).

As damaging as Irvin's lifestyle choices had been to his image, he had turned off even more observers after his arrest with his flippant devotion to ostentatious behavior.

again and again at the poor dog, Justin says that most of the Christians in his life were «South Park» Christians who responded to his agonizing questions about his future with a flippant, «Don't be gay!»

I have seen parents defend their son's misogynistic conduct and excuse it with a flippant «boys will be boys.»

Not exact matches

Get her talking about the philanthropic impact of her work — with every sale, each of her brands contributes to a related cause in the developing world — and it's apparent there's nothing at all flippant about her audacity.

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

Carl Sagan has shifted from a rather flippant dismissal of Christianity to eagerness to work with churches.

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.»

I realize my comment is flippant but a well thought out and intelligently written statement is virtually always met with vitriol.

Buckley bore the gravest moral objections to abortion, and he expressed his deep incredulity with the decision: It seemed to betray, he thought, a flippant disregard for the facts known well to embryology about the development of the child in the womb.

I think a few of us wish you were a «goner» with such a flippant attitude.

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.

My problem with the way our culture views childbirth is its flippant view of c - sections.

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.

«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.

Assemblyman Boyland's bad news week continued with him catching heat for what Brooklyn residents say is a flippant attitude displayed toward a little girl mowed down by an out - of - control SUV Sunday.

«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.

Yes, it's stressful being so young working with adults in an industry that can be flippant and sometimes cruel, but you are safe.

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

The bombast of the G.I. Joe and Transformers franchises might suggest no, but after an uninspired year for animated movies, The Lego Movie is a 3 - D animated film that connects, as an homage to the ingenious Danish - born construction game, along with a subversively flippant story about thinking outside the blocks.

The movie amounts to, in the flippant words of Hamm's character, a Las Vegas dealer in memorabilia who's cleaning out his dead parents» home with his sister (Keener), «such a bummer.»

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).

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.

With his cool, flippant manner, his Holmes stands apart from the danger, thinking it through visually before performing it, remaining insouciant in the face of calamity.

God Help the Girl is a story that doesn't get too blogged down with the more serious issues of Eve's anorexia and depression, while also not being flippant about the topic.

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.

The director of The Great Beauty returns with a gorgeous, flippant comedy on mortality with Michael Caine in the lead.

As with the French film «Les Valseuses,» (the French title is slang for «the testicles») Turturro's version follows a trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude backfires time and again.

Deadpool 2 is intentionally pretty flippant with its narrative stakes, so knowing that the Merc is going to die at some point doesn't really take anything away from your enjoyment while watching the film, but it is extremely Deadpool - core to have the star «jokingly» spoil the actual events of the film.

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.

At its best, it's flippant fun, but with its depiction of a hateful, haughty, tortured artist who is losing touch with reality, it feels much more like a film about Woody Allen than it does Godard.

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

Not only does it remain oddly silent on Kerrigan, but it feels flippant about domestic abuse, with Harding's violent relationships with both her mother and husband frequently played off as pantomime slapstick.

Of the four male leads, he towers about his fellow actors with the best and most flippant lines.

In Death Wish, though, the increasingly antic comedy collides with Willis's dead - eyed demeanor, which casts a psychotic, unfeeling pall over Paul's snappy one - liners that's never reconciled with Roth and Carnahan's flippant view of violence and vigilantism.

Black is trying to have his cake and eat it with this film and his flippant approach to the film's abundant violence precludes the emotional involvement he tries to invest it with late on.

Stay in third gear through the chicane with three wheels momentarily on the ground to find out whether the fast - acting torque split and the flippant ESP calibration will straddle the line between drama and disaster.

The R - Design models with their sporty suspension offer plenty of driver involvement, the car scything through bends with an almost flippant level of dexterity.

If you have spent years perfecting your manuscript, pouring your heart into it, then to «publish» with such a flippant attitude will only undermine you and your writing.

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.

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-...]

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.

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

OK, I'm being a little flippant, call»em what you will — but (generally) these are banks with drastically lower leverage, misunderstood businesses, and / or substantially mis - priced market valuations... Basically, they're NOT banks!

I was being somewhat flippant with the O'Reilly comment... but then again look at the corporate histories, note the O'Reilly modus operandi which is to build an empire fuelled by excessive debt, and ask yourself who comes out wealthier from an O'Reilly company..?!

But there's a dual reward here: absorbing these expressions of female sexuality carries with it the ability for male characters to grow stronger, faster and more capable, reducing the women to points in a mathematical equation that directly links the flippant consumption of female sexuality to an increase in male power.

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.