flippancy

As Schwiebert once quietly complained to me, “a time in media when flippancy is substituted for genuine knowledge.”

Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

Part of it, if I may be excused a moment of flippancy, is that they are doing such a good job of making fools of themselves (and sometimes of Tolkien) that I see no reason to add my own meed of incapacity.

The road less travelled by goes ever on superversive 2006

But behind his flippancy was a certain grim disquiet: who or what had incited this magic sword to slay him?

The Source of Magic Anthony, Piers 1979

As soon as she was safely tucked up in the dog-cart, with no way of escape, Elisabeth saw a look in Alan's eyes which told her that he meant to make love to her; so with that old, old feminine instinct, which made the prehistoric woman take to her heels when the prehistoric man began to run after her, this daughter of the nineteenth century took refuge in an armour of flippancy, which is the best shield yet invented for resisting Cupid's darts.

The Farringdons Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler 1894

Pennington's particular kind of flippancy was merely a result of his having been, in those far days before he was a remittance man, an Oxford graduate.

I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931

England hath need of thee -- 'said Mrs. Belmaine with the degree of flippancy which is considered correct for immortal verse, the Bible, God, etc., in these days.

The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884

Amis has had to deal with a welter of criticism, including an accusation of "flippancy" from the American novelist

The First Post: Latest 2010

So delicate, in fact, that treating it with this kind of flippancy is entirely inappropriate.

Gizmodo 2010

England hath need of thee —’ said Mrs. Belmaine with the degree of flippancy which is considered correct for immortal verse, the Bible, God, etc., in these days.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

That habit he got into of smashing the arguments of the heathen, gave him a kind of flippancy in talking of high matters. "

The Mark Of Cain Andrew Lang 1878