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His flippant error about the direction of the Gulf Stream is made to Detective Rolvaag, and reveals a gap in his credentials as a scientist ; in subsequent conversations with the detective, Chaz jokes about running over snakes on the highway, tells Rolvaag to throw his soda can in the trash, and can ’ t even identify the fish in his own aquarium — “ Do I look like frigging Jacques Cousteau ?”
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In the Boston Daily Advertiser, Nathan Hale criticized Alcott's " flippant and off hand conversation " about serious topics from the Virgin birth of Jesus to circumcision.
Though he could be droll and flippant about social and political matters, he always was serious about art and often invited public controversy and debate to argue for his strongly held theories.
The fourth Leader was devoted to flippant themes, and Darwin was known to insert quotes from or about Dickens in them.
In 1887, he gave a seemingly flippant response in the House to a genuine question about the mistaken arrest of Miss Cass, who was accused of prostitution, which resulted in the government's defeat on the issue.
( I know I shouldn't be flippant about this, but jokes were actually made that the key FBI HQ personnel had to be spies or moles, like ( Robert Hanssen ), who were actually working for Osama Bin Laden to have so undercut Minneapolis's effort.
Despite his flippant and irreverent black humor, however, Abbey ’ s true convictions about the real threats facing the American land and the American soul continue to shine through.
General Ulrich Wegener, founder of the German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9, was also interviewed during the film, and was roundly criticized for his seemingly flippant attitude about the subject matter.
She reminds him he promised her a screen test and expresses concern about his excessive drinking and flippant attitude, but he tells her not to worry.
What I remember most about him was all the kind of flippant statements that he made inside of classroom as well as outside.
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Throughout the film, Sanjuro is considered by some of the samurai as a problem figure: he has bad manners, behavior unbecoming a samurai, weird ways to express his thoughts, often seems lazy and disinterested during planning, and a flippant attitude regarding violence.
She is very direct and flippant in her speech, but is said to be highly competent in the professions she is involved in.
Flashback episodes show her with a much larger nose and the insinuation is that the operation was for image, a fact confirmed by a flippant comment from her sister Amy, regarding Emma – " Do you ever worry that Emma's going to get your real nose?
In a time when actors were defined by the type of role they played, Thomas felt she had no film type, saying, " But I want to create a certain role, you see Mary is the kid in pictures ; Norma does drama ; Constance is the flippant, flighty wife ; Dorothy the hoyden ; Nazimova is exotic and steeped in mystery, my Jack does boys, while I -- I -- why don't you see, I am just nothing at all!
Despite his flippant ways, Mat is a person of honor ; when he gives his word, he keeps it.
The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, " the last Tory ", a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. Tietjens may or may not be the father of his wife's child, Sylvia, a flippant socialite who seems intent on ruining him.
However, Triel is shrewd and calculating, and a powerful vessel for Lolth's Will, despite her often flippant attitude toward her goddess, her favor with the Spider Queen is the envy of the Drow.
: Although no proper name is offered for this body in the animated series, beyond the flippant use of " Megahead " by Cheetor, a later short story by Beast Machines writer Robert N. Skir dubbed the body the " Grand Mal " for unknown reasons.
Paul is everything Martin is not – adventurous, laissez-faire, flippant, witty, handsome and charming ; in the words of Martin, a " couldn't care less, come on life ..... amuse me, merchant ".
Jarlaxle loves making profits, but he seems to enjoy irritating and unsettling personages in power even more ( particularly the ruling priestesses of the Spider Queen, who generally view him with veiled contempt — because he is a male rogue without house — and frustration — because he always tends to be flippant and disrespectful, and killing him is simply not an option.
Liz has some unnatural resentment towards Jessica and her flippant attitude, until she has a horrible nightmare when she dreams that Jessica is dead.
In the movies, he is characterized by his flippant persona, his approach to his profession as a scientific charlatan, and his womanizing demeanor.
It is generally used in a flippant way, often in seeming mocking of police or military authority.
Himeji is often flippant in her sex life, letting guys get the better of her, since she is easily tempted.
He is, however, most closely linked with The London Magazine, to which, from 1820 to 1823, he contributed some clever but flippant art criticism and articles under the noms-de-plume of Janus Weathercock, Egomet Bonmot and Cornelius van Vinkbooms.
A brief forte, backed by the orchestra, leads to a third, expansive, walking theme performed again by the solo pianist ; Layton notes that this " looks forward to its counterpart in the Third Piano Concerto: there is no mistaking its slightly flippant character ".
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Richard thought it a more promising remark than any made during the last conversation, but Charlotte's manner during the gatherings was more flippant and superficial than when she was alone with him and he was sure her remark would lead to nothing much better than the pointless words which had preceded it.
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" Kerr saw the statement as a threat ; Whitlam later stated the comment was " flippant " and designed to turn the conversation to another subject.
The Alphas have a variation in the facial and head structures and more flippant attitude toward doctrine and procedure ; the latter created animosity between the two breeds.
Later, in 1976, members of the sovereigntist Parti Québécois ( PQ ) were elected to the National Assembly of Quebec ; according to press reports, some of those persons swore the oath with their fingers crossed and others later added flippant commentary to their oath, such as " et aussi au Roi de France " (" and also to the King of France ") and " Vive la République " (" live the republic!
Fisk reacted with outrage ; Reporters sans Frontieres condemned Malkovich's comments, but Jayasekera dismissed them as " flippant " in a now-deleted online article for the Index website.
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During the 1920s, Poulenc's most immediate influences were Chabrier, Debussy, Satie, and Stravinsky, and he generally followed the irreverent, flippant aesthetic stance of Les Six with melodies influenced by Parisian music halls.
For much of his career, Van Zandt maintained a flippant attitude towards the recording process, with songwriting being his primary concern.
David Langford described Collier as " best known for his highly polished, often bitterly flippant magazine stories ... best stories are touched with poetry and real wit, sometimes reminiscent of Saki's.
According to Mack, the reason she got the role was because she went into her second audition with a " very flippant attitude ".
Though initially angry with her, Romano agrees to do the operation after Lucy berates him for his seemingly flippant attitude towards the dying patient.
It was on surface a flippant remark, but deeper meaning attached to it in terms of the need for the steeling of character, not the common virtue of Philippine lawmakers with lesser lights, many of whom were duplicitous participants in the rape of Philippine democracy and its economy, the drastic decline of the peso, the needless suffering inflicted on its people.
The story of the engagement became a source of gossip in Copenhagen, with Kierkegaard's flippant dismissal and apparently cruel seduction of Regine becoming wildly exaggerated.
Zhao Yingqi was reputed to be a tyrant who killed citizens with flippant abandon.
I am to my bones a flippant individual, I don't know why I was created thus or what I'm trying to deny, but it clashed with the extreme seriousness.
Located just 5 miles south of Duncan on 180th St. is " The Ranch " where wishful Prince Urich resides with a naive and flippant Jessie Pup.
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Whiny and flippant, Raymond does not take many things seriously, making jokes in nearly every situation, no matter how troubling or problematic, and constantly avoiding any sort of real responsibility.
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