As Schwiebert once quietly complained to me, “a time in media when flippancy is substituted for genuine knowledge.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
Part of it, if I may be excused a moment of flippancy, is that they are doing such a good job of making fools of themselves (and sometimes of Tolkien) that I see no reason to add my own meed of incapacity. ❋ Superversive (2006)
But behind his flippancy was a certain grim disquiet: who or what had incited this magic sword to slay him? ❋ Anthony, Piers (1979)
As soon as she was safely tucked up in the dog-cart, with no way of escape, Elisabeth saw a look in Alan's eyes which told her that he meant to make love to her; so with that old, old feminine instinct, which made the prehistoric woman take to her heels when the prehistoric man began to run after her, this daughter of the nineteenth century took refuge in an armour of flippancy, which is the best shield yet invented for resisting Cupid's darts. ❋ Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1894)
Pennington's particular kind of flippancy was merely a result of his having been, in those far days before he was a remittance man, an Oxford graduate. ❋ Margaret Widdemer (1931)
England hath need of thee -- 'said Mrs. Belmaine with the degree of flippancy which is considered correct for immortal verse, the Bible, God, etc., in these days. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
Amis has had to deal with a welter of criticism, including an accusation of "flippancy" from the American novelist ❋ Unknown (2010)
So delicate, in fact, that treating it with this kind of flippancy is entirely inappropriate. ❋ Unknown (2010)
England hath need of thee —’ said Mrs. Belmaine with the degree of flippancy which is considered correct for immortal verse, the Bible, God, etc., in these days. ❋ Unknown (2006)
That habit he got into of smashing the arguments of the heathen, gave him a kind of flippancy in talking of high matters. " ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
You sound kind of defensive in your comment, which is probably the fault of my post and the inevitable flippancy and lack of nuance its (relative!) shortness tends to produce. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It is impossible to tell if his shtick is needless belligerence, playful contrarianism, powder-dry wit or heavy flippancy, if he was endlessly bullied at school or not bullied nearly enough. ❋ Unknown (2012)
In case the paranoid denizens of the Cipher Branch mistook her flippancy for a lack of caution, she concluded solemnly, This document will be kept very securely in a fireproof Mauser safe, and will be available to no one except Col. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)
If it doesn't open up the old wound it does sort of poke it, and I could theoretically find the flippancy with which its used insensitive. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
It imposes on them a duty to be more than just kibitzers—to think about the consequences of their judgments and to avoid flippancy. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)
Sure, it takes comic genius to notice that a satire on the vanity of acting could overlap with a satire on the vanity of nazism – but it also takes grand chutzpah to have the courage of one's flippancy. ❋ Unknown (2011)
If flippancy and light-heartedness characterize much of Oscar Wilde's writing, a more sober, even somber, outlook shadows his prison writings. ❋ Martin E. Marty (2011)
"You no longer have the flippancy we previously saw with China's economic data." ❋ Tom Orlik (2011)
Jones even used an explanation mark to denote the flippancy of that comment! ❋ Unknown (2010)
