Word: flippant
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...they promise, he will have to find his own method of shaping his plays, somewhere in between the formal structure of traditional theater and the intentional formlessness of the Theater of the Absurd. In the meantime, his plays deserve attention purely for their cleverly absurd situations and their casual, flippant dialogue, which combine to produce Mrozek's special brand of ironic humor...
...shaper of the flippant, disenchanted '20s, Coward was wary of the deeper emotions, guardedly dispassionate, compulsively irreverent. He turned the era's alienated mood into a frenetic jazz beat of syncopated escapism. The message: Live for the moment, dance your troubles away, play madder music, drink stronger wine...
...indifferent administrator at best, and had a way of converting the daily conflicts of government into moral crises. Annoyed at having to bargain with people whom he felt to be wrong, he tended to rebuke them, thus stiffening their resistance to compromise. They were further alienated by his often flippant attitude that bordered on arrogance...
...average salad dressing: it stayed together only when shaken frequently. The corps of boys and girls-drawn from both the Jeffrey and Tharp companies-did its best, wiggling and jerking in ways that sometimes recalled the old one-reeler days. But the result was too much of a campy, flippant "in" joke...
...smooth over the rivalry with his candid statement: "Right now, Spitz is better than Schollander." As Chavoor puts it: "Mark wanted to be friends with Schollander and all those other big studs, but they didn't want any part of Mark. So he withdrew." As hurt as he was flippant and cocksure, Spitz made his extravagant predictions for victory in the 1968 Olympics, thereby abrading the already raw relations with his teammates. In fact, many of them began rooting for him to lose...