| He insisted on everyone doing the same training and practice, expected people to look smart, and could not tolerate laxity or flippancy. |
| He started cracking jokes, contrasting the flippancy of opposition politics with the weight of responsibility he had to bear. |
| He lists the erosion of liberty with enough precision to make objections to his flippancy seem footling. |
| With his typical flippancy and a strong dose of humour, Alan Ayckbourn wrote a cheerful drama about passion, marriage and relational dead ends. |
| Nietzsche certainly has his moments, as does Schopenhauer, but these are glimmers of mordancy compared to Kierkegaard's determined flippancy. |
| I was a bit concerned about the flippancy with which my original question had been greeted. |
