“Behind the defensive joking and flippancy, students were often burdened by a heavy cloak of genuine sadness.”

“He lists the erosion of liberty with enough precision to make objections to his flippancy seem footling.”

“Grantham, always publicly self-deprecating, ratchets up flippancy to reckless levels when commenting on his youngest son.”

“But the program did separate its soft features and entertainment flippancies from its hard news segments and breaking news reports.”

“Instead, a superficial presentational tone, at worst characterised by Katie Derham's patronising flippancies, prevails by daytime.”

“Hembrough is hampered by anything, it is Gwenda Hughes' directorial flippancies.”