Author of several books on Hinduism, his writings seek to contrast the generally flippant and dry academic presentations of western Indologists. |
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Quebec never made demands to the federal government in jest or with flippant jokes. |
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Now I have to go and intimidate Mr Mills for a while as payback for his flippant remark. |
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Zach flailed against the cuffs, his rage escalating at her flippant attitude. |
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Groucho Marx's flippant remark about the inability of any photograph to capture his inner beauty is profoundly insightful. |
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Though it may seem flippant to say so, she's certainly damaged enough to be a star. |
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My boss was very supportive and saw the same flippant attitude I did when she spoke to them. |
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Millar is no stranger to the flippant remark, and he does not specify exactly what he might deliver. |
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For some, his work is too dark to be humorous, for others it is too flippant to be serious. |
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When I'm with her, I feel like it's okay to be studious or stupid, serious or flippant. |
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In the end the flippant attitude to the lack of car parking will have disastrous consequences for businesses in Skipton. |
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Shaidanna rolled her eyes, suddenly realizing where Galen had picked up his flippant attitude. |
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I could wear Armani suits and make flippant remarks in the House of Commons. |
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However, I do not wish to address all of contemporary arts with my flippant remarks. |
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He was irritated by Rob's flippant comments and attitude and wondered why Rob continued to bait him. |
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The latter two chapter titles are too flippant for the serious situations they describe. |
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Even Owen, usually with such a flippant attitude about everything, had raised his eyebrows. |
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Behind the flippant name hides a serious message about religious ignorance. |
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Lyle believes there are effective ways to put across a serious message without being flippant. |
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For a minute, I saw a smirk rise to his lips, and I thought he'd make some flippant remark. |
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Later that evening in the hotel he reflected on his achievement in a more customary flippant manner. |
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I was being flippant and there was a teacher who I liked a lot and he clumped me round the earhole. |
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For him language is musical, felicitous, comical, flippant, suggestive, buoyant weaponry and adumbrative of mysteries beyond us. |
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He gave a flippant answer saying I should thank my lucky stars he had not billed me for it earlier. |
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His voice became flippant, a distinct change from his previous, conspiratorial tone. |
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I find it amazing that my flippant and sardonic comments on one 600 pound butterball of a women has provoked such a response. |
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The little animal glanced back up at her but soon returned to its apple with a flippant peep. |
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We probably falter unless our choices instinctively prove inherent qualities, be they serious or flippant. |
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As a stylist, Rothbart is terse but not flippant, displaying a genuine compassion for his purblind characters. |
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The conversation, as was to be expected with such a group, was light and flippant, with many jokes and quips flipping back and forth. |
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Her lyrics deal with weighty subjects but she can be as flippant as the next joker. |
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There was all the flippant humor that made the show so much fun back in the day, and I loved it. |
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The use to which the wealth is put, and Jahangir's almost flippant attitude toward his riches, activates the notion of the ignorant barbarian. |
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The trouble with me is most of the things I say are tongue in cheek, very flippant. |
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Adrian struck me as arrogant, flippant, evasive, defensive and unremorseful. |
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This brilliantly written book isn't entirely flippant, since its humour has a more sombre purpose. |
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We do not get the flippant remarks and questions and the sarcasm usually thrown forth during these times. |
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We have to research these questions and not give flippant answers. |
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Ali Gharib said after the fact that he realized the comments were flippant and irresponsible. |
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Byrne may sound flippant, but scientists have long been fascinated by the question of whether comedians have a common psychology. |
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That is what a Conservative government would provide for them, but I do not want to be flippant. |
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This is why I think it is somewhat flippant and a bad precedent to ban or attempt to ban gear of this kind in the areas in question. |
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They were quite serious and were not being flippant but their answer was that the big company Monsanto would pay. |
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Don't be flippant, don't argue, and don't try to change the subject to avoid a disagreeable message. |
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Mr. Mirau, this may seem like a flippant question, but I don't mean it to be so. |
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James Mason was not a man prone to wild hyperbole or flippant remarks. |
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I don't see why you couldn't. Pardon me for maybe being flippant, but it's just a rock, right? |
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Ms. Chamberlain was not moved to account for Mr. Rock's flippant remarks that 33 of her constituents need to find another industry to work for. |
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How many times have you read those words, which have become a flippant phrase which contains a hint of both the scepticism and implicit faith we have in science? |
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It is far too flippant and casual to be taken seriously, and at the same time it is so earnest that it's impossible to just sit back and enjoy the ride. |
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Using an informal style when a formal style is called for results in prose that seems breezy, chatty, casual, flippant. |
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The style is flippant, vulgar and solidly unamusing. |
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That sounds as if it is meant to be a flippant comment, but we know what tragic consequences dictatorship brought to human lives in so many European countries. |
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It is understandable that there are those for whom these trainers are bad reminders of the Atlantic slave trade and the plantation system, with a flippant disregard for centuries of human suffering and exploitation. |
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In his own way, he may even appreciate that his personality and his achievements, in human relationships as much as in competitive sport, tend to force his admirers towards flippant hyperbole. |
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The comparison is not as flippant as it sounds: it is thanks precisely to the PAP's economic policies that Singaporeans can afford their sneakers and mobile phones. The PAP is also good at reinventing itself. |
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What disappointed me was the flippant way in which the answer was given. |
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One must often attend to the tail and ensure it remains tucked and not become flippant, so as to maintain a catloaf of presentable form. |
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Their careful viewing of the lengthy film has led none of them to consider that the film makers' approach was either flippant, casual or without respect. |
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An applicant will not accept that your review is fair if it contains comments that could be construed as sarcastic, flippant, arrogant, or inappropriate in any way. |
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To be made in such a flippant way-is this common practice? |
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That wasn't a flippant comment, by the way. |
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I wouldn't be quite so flippant, Mr. Doyle. |
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Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Liberal Party recently declared in a flippant tone that the forestry and logging industries are low end or basement industries, as he likes to call them. |
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Tweets wittily and often about the media's misuse of statistics and surveys, but intersperses his technical tweets with flippant items so as not to overtax his followers. |
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Probably not, but I was kind of hoping that the finance minister would not even make such a flippant remark, because our legislation has to be grounded and rooted in sound decision-making elements and facts. |
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This may have been a flippant comment from a colleague of mine, but it's certainly true and you simply cannot beat a good canape. |
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The real affront facing parliament is the behaviour of the government and its flippant and arrogant attitude toward the processes of the House and the principle of responsible government. |
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Subtle snubs, flippant gestures and sarcastic tones, even in small quantities, demoralise and demotivate people. |
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But I must say to you in all honesty that the text before us today has been thrown together, it is slapdash and flippant and I, for one, am not proud of it. |
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It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their speech. |
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In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine. |
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Pater gave Wilde his sense of almost flippant devotion to art, though it was John Ruskin who gave him a purpose for it. |
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The disputer obfuscates the differences between kinds of things and uses of words, offering flippant arguments for bizarre assertions to achieve victory at all costs. |
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The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style. |
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I am still sick with his sentimentality of a Strephon. He is a flippant coxcomb. |
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This is no flippant remark on the part of the Committee. |
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He was mysterious, and flippant and cattier than Dorothy Parker. |
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