Word: flippants
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...whole question provides a proper topic for the English classroom or for the social-science classroom. In contrast with the flippant attitude of the passing hour, there may issue among youths and among adults a conviction for restraint that harmonizes with the mood of an earlier and more rigid national attitude toward gambling...
...flippant statement of one of the Juniors in charge of Senior elections, in answer to the criticisms and complaints that have been registered against the management, leaves little to be desired both in the matter of bad taste and incompetent rationalization...
Last fortnight Chancellor Bowman explained that he had dismissed Professor Turner because "I thought his position could be better filled by another man." Last week Pitt's Chancellor had changed his tune to: "Professor Turner was dismissed because of his sneering, sarcastic, flippant attitude toward religion...
...because they need the money but because there is no cheaper way to make their possessions safe. In nearly all cases pawnshop profits go to charity. Thus the Paris Crédit Municipal is known respectfully as "Le Mont de Piéte" (The Mount of Piety) and with flippant affection as "ma tante" (my aunt). On the day President Roosevelt closed every U. S. bank more than 500 U. S. citizens obtained cash from Paris' Aunt...
...characters are insignificant puppets; the situations are replete with refined slapstick and flippant chatter just one level above that of a mediocre burlesque show, and Noel Coward's personality remains aloof in the background. He is there; for he is, without any doubt, a superior showman who knows the mood of the public. As a movie, "Private Lives" is one of the few that will keep your interest to the end. The photography is particularly skillful in the Alps scenes, and is never slipshod. Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer are convincing lunatics, boisterously funny...