Word: flippants
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...Poulenc as hearing his friends marvel at the quilt of contradictions that masked his music and his life. "I am half-monk, half-bounder," he would say, and his friends would add that he was also a cultured vulgarian, a moody wit, a seedy dandy-a puzzle. He wrote flippant music and sacred music, funny, jazzy profane music, and he also wrote some of the century's greatest songs. Since his death in Paris last January, the Poulenc puzzle has become his epitaph-as though his critics and colleagues would rather cherish their confusion than resolve it. Last week...
...attitude of the Catholic Church in Chicago is clear from the record. In your flippant assessment of motivation, your re searchers failed in both the courtesy and the obligation to consult church officials who were involved in the Hyde Park controversy...
Though the action covers less than a day in the life of Dr. Matthew Carter, this new novel is practically a shooting script for a new TV series. All the elements of Casey and Kildare are abundantly present: 1) gruff-seeming doctors beset by demanding patients, 2) flippant nurses, 3) crisp dialogue given a spurious weight by repetition ("Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure?" "Yes, we're sure"), and 4) big, dramatic scenes in the operating room with the surgeon rapping out such commands as "Toothed forceps and a knife with a number eleven blade...
Nevertheless, it might be possible to hold the opinion that responsible government officials were perfectly aware of the possible consequences of the explosion--although Kennedy's flippant press conference remark casts some doubt on this--and yet felt that urgent military needs justified the risk...
...fifteen chapters, except those intentionally quoted from other sources. Again and again Mound myself underlining sentences that were especially felicitous or colorful in phrasing; and one could extract quite a collection of aphorisms and epigrams. The writing is always fresh and often witty; it is never stuffy or flippant. And one can only assume that these words describe the author himself...