Word: flippant
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...other hand, "The Passionate Congressman" is subject to the adverse criticism of Journalese: it is flippant; it never in fact explores the problem it is talking about. But it covers up with so many good lines, as when the Supreme court Justice shrugs off the predatory female with "I have never interfered with free enterprises," that social analysis never gets in the way of entertainment...
...hotel-goer patiently stands in slow-moving queues at the understaffed registration desk. He rides to the wrong floors in jerky elevators operated by flippant, teen-age boys & girls or by deaf old gaffers. The call "Front" may bring a pint-sized bellhop, but usually the traveler totes his own bags. Frequently he is ushered into a room that seems to have been bombed: the bed unmade, the bureau loaded with dreg-laden tumblers, the ash trays choked with butts. One wet, crumpled towel is left on the washstand, the legacy of yesterday's guest, who seems to have...
...British, busy with evacuation of women and children from the capital, reconstruction of destroyed property, rescue and protection, were not laughing off such claims. The nickname "doodlebug" was frowned on as too flippant. Most Londoners called the bombs "those things...
...home-town weekly, no competitor to the big-city daily Stars & Stripes. His analysis of his readers: "The average G.I. Joe wants to see his name in print and likes to laugh at himself and his pals." Accordingly, Robinson handles front-line news in facetious but never flippant style. Battlefront pictures are taboo, since the doughboy knows what the front looks like. No button-polishing publicity sheet, 48th News carries officers' stories only when they are really interesting. (The division's general was interviewed when he took over, has been mentioned only twice since...
...task of dazing magnitude, because probably all Government postwar domestic policy will be based on the Old Man's findings. His staff: mostly his present right-hand man, Banker John Hancock. The office: "I don't know where definitely. But a park bench is too flippant for this...