Word: flippantly
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...hated the adults who could not protect another child from death; now, thinking of her own daughters and a narrow escape, she hopes that she and her husband will "be forgiven, in time, for everything that had first to be seen and condemned by those children: whatever was flippant, arbitrary, careless, callous -- all our natural, and particular, mistakes...
...died three years ago of Alzheimer's disease. The second is 69 and lives in Florida, as does his popular P.I. Travis McGee, the "tinhorn knight on a stumbling Rosinante from Rent-A-Steed." The third is a former Boston Globe critic and the inventor of the flippant Fletch, whose snooping is sanctioned by a press card rather than a badge...
...Herlihys' academic and marital story. My husband and I have been commuting in one form or another since we began our careers some six years ago. We are both untenured, and my husband teaches history at Princeton. It was, therefore, with some irritation that I read Professor Zeckhauser's flippant and misleading comments both about the relative ease with which beginning assistant professors could find jobs in the same city and about the likelihood that a "commuter marriage" (between Princeton and Harvard yet!) would end within two years in divorce. He is wrong--unfortunately in the first case and fortunately...
...National Convention and the summit between his father and Mikhail Gorbachev. Wearing blue jeans and red Reeboks, Ron had the unprecedented advantage of living at the President's chateau while on assignment, causing no small consternation among the rest of the press corps. Some officials were dismayed by the flippant article he produced. Titled While Lenin Slept, it tosses out cheeky descriptions. Three KGB types are slurred as the "kind of lugs who crush walnuts on their heads because it feels good." Said one top U.S diplomat: "It was one of the most damaging things to U.S.-Soviet relations...
...Right myth feeds on false images: the woman who suddenly finds herself with an option, a choice of whether to stay at home with the kid and the dishes or to pursue a career; the woman as lacking the stuff of real responsibility, of wondering with a flippant toss of the curls which option to choose...