Word: flippant
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...this inconsequential libretto, Menotti added a fluffy, flippant, craftsmanlike score, bristling with tart melodies and limpid orchestration. NBC's studio audience of critics and musical celebrities guffawed, applauded and went home certain: 1) that Composer Menotti had turned out another operatic bestseller, 2) that he was still the most promising young composer on today's operatic horizon...
...contained in that comment. ... I cannot ignore the implied reflection on the character of Mr. Patterson. Your editors, without permission, have seen fit to broadcast to hundreds of thousands of people, entirely out of its setting, a purely joking remark made among close friends. Your editors in their typical flippant manner have elevated a bit of careless joshing into an appraisal of character, which has no basis in truth whatsoever and was never intended...
...does not appear. Not satirizing but seriously analyzing the shortcomings of the Oxford Group, author-director Rachel Crothers has let her characters speak flippantly of God without allowing her play to be in any way flippant. The play rails at houseparties, confessions, dowagers, the substitution of "spiritual" for "physical" love and the superficiality which often characterizes the Group. But at its objective attempts to smooth out human relations Miss Crothers does not laugh she merely disagrees...
...They avoided the faculties of these institutions, went straight to the horse's mouth. One women's college president banned their questionnaire, a professor of physiology called the inquiry "indecent." Result of Authors Bromley & Britten's investigation was a collection of confession stories, some anguished, some flippant, some boastful. Statistics...
...William Somerset Maugham became a success. Four of his plays were produced, and three of them ran for a year. He has remained successful ever since. "In my twenties," he says, "the critics said I was brutal, in my thirties they said I was flippant, in my forties they said I was cynical, in my fifties they said I was competent and now in my sixties they say I am superficial." Last week, in The Summing Up, Author Maugham gave readers passing reasons for agreeing with the critics of each decade. But he also gave them a candid appraisal...