Word: flippantly
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...small dramatization of the merger, look at the best movie of 1994 (some critics say): Pulp Fiction, wherein professional killers engage in 1) savagely flippant violence, and 2) boyishly earnest moralism. A torrent of casual, brutal obscenity flows through discussions marked by a strange, scholastic nicety...
...staff flippant dismissal of Lani Guinier with the label of "Quota Queen," simplistically evades a real discussion of her views and suitability as Class Day speaker. Their treatment of Guinier is reminiscent of the superficial appraisal the national media as a whole gave her at the time of her nomination...
...would deny that an abortion is a difficult moral decision. No one believes that choosing an abortion is an unambiguously correct or morally flippant decision. Abortion-rights advocates who have had abortions themselves acknowledge the difficulty of choosing to terminate a pregnancy...
...cause morally ambivalent people concern and perhaps causes them to withhold their approval of homosexual love, it is the problem of procreation. Gays have proven themselves brilliantly in all but this sphere of social existence. Procreation, then, is not an issue that gay activists can afford to be morally flippant about, especially if they want to win ultimate acceptance into society by showing that homosexual love is truly an analogue of its heterosexual cousin, and hence deserving of access to the social recognition and civil sanction accorded to heterosexual marriage...
...balance between incongruities. One David isn't private and a completely different one public--instead, a single Kennedy has built a thick wall between the two. One David isn't Irish Catholic, another cosmopolitan liberal--he tries to be both. One David isn't a social activist, another a flippant 'Poonster, reveling in the Castle's elite traditions--here, David is both...