As Schwiebert once quietly complained to me, “a time in media when flippancy is substituted for genuine knowledge.”. From Wordnik.com. [Uncategorized Blog Posts] Reference
But behind his flippancy was a certain grim disquiet: who or what had incited this magic sword to slay him?. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
Gone was the slang flippancy, the hard roughness. From Wordnik.com. [The Plastic Age] Reference
So delicate, in fact, that treating it with this kind of flippancy is entirely inappropriate. From Wordnik.com. [Gizmodo] Reference
Amis has had to deal with a welter of criticism, including an accusation of "flippancy" from the American novelist. From Wordnik.com. [The First Post: Latest] Reference
That habit he got into of smashing the arguments of the heathen, gave him a kind of flippancy in talking of high matters. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mark Of Cain] Reference
"Shoot the works!" she commanded, with hard flippancy. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
And it will save me from all flippancy in my religious life. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Mrs. Newton gave an exclamation of real horror at her flippancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
A mere wrist gesture suggests littleness, flippancy, weak traits. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
There was an earnestness that robbed the question of any flippancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
I disliked his flippancy before, but now my disgust to him was insuperable. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Mr. Parton's fluent and forcible style sometimes degenerates into flippancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
There is more than flippancy in the remark that Adam's fall was a fall upward. From Wordnik.com. [The Ascent of the Soul] Reference
Schopenhauer, without his bitterness; with those of Nordau, without his flippancy. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Him in apparent royalty, while all the time my spirit is full of flippancy and jeers. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Yet beneath the surface flippancy Nan could read a genuine remorse and self-reproach. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
CORKER: There was just an air of smugness, flippancy when serious questions were asked. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 10, 2009] Reference
Affecting flippancy, Subar and Behdul wandered into position to the left of the pathway. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble Magnet]
Dora has accused me of flippancy, and this young lady states that I don't talk seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
He never provoked the criticism of those whom he led, nor indulged in levity and flippancy. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
I detest all flippancy and cynicism, all cheapening of serious subjects by lack of reverence. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
It is flippancy or pedantry like this which gives rise to the onslaughts of a Cobden or Herbert. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
How was he to suspect the heights from which she had looked down on his softness and flippancy?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
You are annoyed with her flippancy, with her French-manicured wave of the hand, dismissing you. From Wordnik.com. [They] Reference
Do you suppose it was because I've already become accustomed to meeting flippancy with flippancy?. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
She was older than he and without the occasional strain of flippancy which so maddened his father. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
The deep earnestness of Burke, who next spoke, contrasted strangely with the flippancy of Sheridan. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference
"And when they did find one, Cill was promptly forgotten," said George with deliberate flippancy. From Wordnik.com. [Disordered Minds]
"Dreams is sent for our guidance," Harriet answered portentously, shaking her head at Beth's flippancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Did the fools expect him to believe their flippancy spelled confidence, or were they deceiving themselves?. From Wordnik.com. [Victory] Reference
"I am quite at your disposal, Mr. Foyle," she said, hiding her uneasiness under an appearance of flippancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
He used to be amused by his wife's flippancy before her marriage, but he had long since grown to dislike it. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
At the same time I am far from advocating flippancy or superficiality, for both are deadly sins in literature. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
Indeed one might almost call it flippancy, and few would deny that at times this flippancy is painful to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
Each soul, as reading or listening, creates an atmosphere of either flippancy, depression, courage, trust, or some vital power. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
I really must refuse to pander to editorial flippancy, and to add myself to the April fools who will scribble seriously upon the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
The steady trust of the ruler was not shaken by the rude flippancy of the artificial mourners, and his daughter was brought from the dead. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
But the Bibliotaph measured the flippancy of the remark with his eye and instantly fitted an answer to the mental needs of the questioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
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