Word: flippant
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...Lellouche's spokesman to suggest that his comments had been poorly translated (a feeble dodge once the Guardian noted that the interview had been conducted in English). Still later, Lellouche, who is perfectly fluent in English, explained that he had used terms like "autism" and "pathetic" in a flippant, colloquial French manner. By the end of last week, however, Lellouche took a significant step back, calling himself "the most Anglophile politician" in France and saying that he respects British sensibilities on Europe...
...merit a New York Times article). But it’s time for America to take up the slack, too. The writer Bill Bryson once compared Canada to a sophisticated, black-turtleneck-clad woman in her mid-30s and America to a chubby preteen boy. Though he was being flippant, there’s a kernel of truth to that generalization. In America, 90 percent of directors are male—not an inherent disqualification for trying to understand the mental processes of women, but an added complication to moving beyond the crash-bang pictures that fill our cineplexes today...
...other. When he halts the waves of meditation for more concrete narrative material, the tongue-in-cheek presentation suggests that dabbling in the realm of standard exposition is another of his little experiments. The University of Haifa, for example, is an index of the expected, so he can be flippant with the details: “People walk about with names like Kaplinksi or Eshtahaul or Bar-Ziva, and girls walk around in various colors, and all enter and exit rooms with the number 526 or 3002,” he writes. But in time, he reveals that a code...
Oscar Wilde once resolved, “Somehow or other I’ll be famous, and if I’m not famous, I’ll be notorious.” This is not as easy as it sounds. Oscar could make one flippant remark about his blue china and find himself catapulted onto the national scene. I make a lot of flippant remarks about a variety of things, and I can’t even get onto GossipGeek...
...this or doing that.”From that point forward, Crow delivers five successive tracks with political content. She flashes some of her old colors on the album’s second cut, “Shine Over Babylon,” opening with the languidly conversational, almost flippant sort of vocals (more lazy recitation than melody) that were the hallmark of her number one hit “All I Wanna Do.” But here, again, the subject matter has a deeper bottom. There’s an allusion to the “seven hills...