Word: flippant
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...interesting as the question is, whether Sarah Phillips is autobiography or fiction is irrelevant. As fiction, the stories reveal a fine craftmanship; some passage are as lightly knit as poetry. Describing Sarah in Paris. Lee is not afraid to be flippant about subjects that cause other writers to tread lightly--if they tread at all: "I had graduated from Harvard, having just turned twenty-one. I was tall and lanky and light-skinned, quite pretty in a nervous sort of way. I came out of college equipped with an unfocused snobbery, vague literary aspirations and a lively appetite for white...
...followed by a ruthless purging of non-Sandinista revolutionaries, and the resultant junta set out to militarize the Nicaraguan people on a soul never before seen in Central America, except possible in Soviet-supported Cuba. Considering the last four years in comparison. We are extremely skeptical of the flippant dismissal of the Reagan approach as "peace destroying...
...which candidate had the most cause to cheer, the networks could not agree even 24 hours later. NBC played the story on Super Tuesday night as a big comeback for Mondale. Brokaw referred to him as "alive and well tonight in this race." He was even a bit flippant about Gary Hart, comparing him to "this season's hit rock-'n'-roll single." But in its newscast the next evening, the network said, in a classic left-handed compliment, that Hart "can no longer duck the title front runner." CBS's Rather emphasized Hart...
Anything Goes stumbles, not over intricate dance steps or difficult staging, but on misguided sincerity. Too often the actors finish their lines on a note of relief, not flippant joie de vivre. And while the cast is continually singing of frolic, they sometimes pay only lip service to the concept. After a particularly complicated dance scene at the close of "It's Delovely," Hope Harcourt (Eva Yablonsky) throws Billy (Benajah Cobb) a long grateful look.\Maybe it's love, but maybe it's because he didn't drop her. Unfortunately, the show's recurring hints of uncertainty tend to suggest...
...sixth novel-and very good. Not for him the extravagant mythmaking of his contemporary Salman Rushdie or the chilly experiments of Ian McEwan. Stylistically, Wilson is headed straight into the past, when a novelist told a suspenseful story and commanded his characters' souls. He can be flippant and overly mordant, but his lively wit and fine sense of morals and manners mark him, at 33, as a formidable novelist already...