Word: flippant
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...Nobody really knows one way or the other that is admitted. Everyone is interested in the idea of thought-transference and future existence--man may be said to have incurably necromantic tendencies--but unless the knightly necromancers establish something definitely soon, good old necromancy is apt to degenerate into flippant necromance unworthy of its old, time-honored title...
...frequently particularly since the war; is it heresy to suggest that it is the church which lacks life rather than they? Young men will think if they are given something to think about; and most young men, although they hesitate to admit it in their more flippant moments, think about religion. Any attempt to confine their religious beliefs within the narrow scope of a literally-interpreted, ancient creed is likely to meet with failure, for such an attempt means death to thought and perhaps--to the church...
...through the mass of evidence, the wealth of philological comparison, and the intricate reasoning on which the author bases his conclusion cannot but be impressed with his earnestness and industry, if not absolutely convinced of his soundness. To discuss lightly the probability of the case is to be flippant, when one regards the mountain of material with which Mr. Ennis bulwarks his position. And when he passes from the philology of the first essay, to philosophy, economics and metaphysics in the second, and to even higher flights, analyzing fancy and education, in the third, the layman is likely to feel...
...have failed to scintillate in preceding issues, are excellent criterions of the remainder of the contents, especially the one concerning a recent remark of Heywood Broun that Harvard had traded odists to Yale for touchdowns. Here we have a touch of literary genius. The second editorial is more characteristically flippant, and is a fairly clever bit of satire on Yale secret societies...
...mighty fallen; but it is at least right and fitting that Boston should take the lead in suppressing an iniquitous volume whose definitions do violence to the New England conceptions of liberty and the Constitution. Right bravely has the more or less permanent advisory or legislative body, as that flippant Webster has it, the city council of Boston, stepped to the defence of its hearth fires and homes by snatching from the nation's youth a plaything far more dangerous than a noxious rattle...