Word: flippant
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...contrast to that flippant view, which nonetheless expresses the esteem of Europeans for Professor Dewey, is another statement. It was made by one who is per-haps the greatest of living Chinese savants, Dr. Fai Yuan-pei. The occasion was the birth anniversary of Confucius in 1920. Dr. Fai, acting as Rector of the National University at Peking, was presenting an honorary Ph.D. degree to John Dewey...
...This flippant sarcasm is not relished by the Republicans of Louisiana. The statement does not agree with the records. Mr. Harding received 38,000 out of 87,000 polled and Mr. Coolidge 35,000 of 92,000 votes cast. (Approx...
...more bitterly the angry, scornful, rebellion with which he regarded the dismal riddle of existence. The terse wrinkled lines of his poetry are like those of his small face in their expression of quiet pessimism, of a thoughtful, stoic sorrow. His "Epitaph on a Pessimist'' is a flippant quatrain: I'm Smith of Stoke, aged sixty-odd, I've lived without a dame From youth-time on; and would to God My dad had done the same...
...they sailed?and behind their backs, in the U. S., flippant, shallow-minded cynics and "sophisticates" snickered at them privately and in smart-charts, or wriggled in cheap self-consciousness to think that these, the butts of so much "horse-laughter" at home, should "parade American crassness before the eyes of Europe...
Governor Johnston was so pleased that he made her his "executive secretary," his confidential adviser. He appointed her husband State Health Commissioner. She suggested other appointments; grew flippant and haughty toward political leaders. Last week internal affairs in Oklahoma reached an apogee when one of the Governor's friends in the State Senate introduced a resolution demanding the dismissal of Mrs. O. O. Hammond, declaring she was offensive to the Senate. Governor Johnston can take his choice: Rosicrucian philosophy or political tranquility...