Word: flippants
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Having thoroughly studied U. S. investment trusts and being a stockholder in some, I consider the flippant, finger-snapping attitude of TIME in reporting so unintelligently on this broad and complex subject to be inexcusable effrontery...
...staff, General Craig, to the Secretary of War, is clear and succinct in its condemnation of Hagood for having overstepped his duties as an army officer and public servant. Craig commends his subordinate's professional efficiency and brilliant intellect, but calls his remarks before the House Appropriations subcommittee flippant and in direct breach of accepted army policy: which is that no political utterances should be made by an army officer. Hagood's statements, designedly or otherwise, brought criticism and ridicule upon the army and his superiors, including the Commander-in-Chief, and are so much the more reprehensible. This...
...dressing up half-truths in racy jargon and in tickling the fancy by turning commonplaces into paradoxes by standing them on their heads; the latter requires only a bit of sophistry which comes easily. For my part, I heartily disapprove of attempts of English instructors to develop easy, flippant writing, when such an endeavor requires the turning away from the difficult and serious treatment of concepts not easy to evaluate and sometimes exceedingly complex, and the adoption of a sort of Heywood Broun style of writing...
...Truth comes usually in a gray mantle. Whether Broun in sincere but carried away by his emotions or whether he prostitutes his talents for the world's favor I know not., but I should surmise the former to be the case. I do know, however, that long after his flippant, scintillating judgments of passing events a have been forgotten, the scholarly but much more prosaic writings of men who have truth as their primary objective in writing will be prized...
...involved in a robbery, and it is therefore his duty to treat her as a Federal operative must treat any subject under surveillance; because Miss Loy knows that Tracy, in spite of his pose as a fellow criminal, is really a sleuth. Dialog wavers back & forth between flippant, Grade A exchanges between Miss Loy and Tracy, and sad C-minus stretches where the crooks make remarks like, "We're hep to the whole layout...