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Example sentences for: flippant
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Even if the site asked the question more precisely--say, by asking users if they prefer government-managed savings or private savings--it would reduce an issue of agonizing actuarial detail to a flippant one-liner.
The flippant headline "Kenya Catch Them" in the Aug. 11 "Today's Papers" is way out of bounds.
She recently published a book called The Language of Silence , about German literature's relationship to the Holocaust, in which she accuses Grass of a flippant disregard for Germany's victims: "[T]here is an ingrained obtuseness and insensitivity to those who suffered and died, evident in a language where silence is veiled in verbal dexterity and a creative exuberance rooted in pre-Holocaust aesthetics."
It is unfortunate that your writer elected to treat this topic with a flippant disregard for the emotional stress associated with impotence.
Usually it's in the last paragraph, and it's usually some flippant remark that would be witty if it were only true.