I refer to the flippant manner in which the misfortunes and misdemeanors of certain classes, brought to the notice of our courts, are reported for the amusement of the community at large.
In an article in a late weekly, I was shocked at a flippant and unfeeling allusion to "the yellow invalids one meets at watering-places.
The extreme gravity and patient attention of old Eldon struck me forcibly as contrasted with the air of ennui, the frequent and audible yawns, and the flippant and sarcastic interruptions of the Chancellor.
He has been brought to this by a series of false steps from his first refusal to join Peel, followed by his flippant and undecided conduct throughout the great contest.
He chose to be flippant with Gilbert, and to rally Pringle on the ease with which these islands could really be inhabited when it came to the pinch.
Altogether Daniel Meggison enjoyed the situation mightily, and bore himself with that easy flippant gaiety that had marked him out in the Arcadia Arms as being above the common herd.
But, when the insinuations of the flippant perfumer had once made her looked at, her beauty, her apparently unprotected situation, and the account of the wager, seemed to render her an object to be stared at without scruple.
Lord Chesterfield, however, took no notice of the matter till the Dictionary was on the point of coming out in 1755, and then wrote some flippant remarks about it in a publication called The World.
He spoke in his flippant tone: "Really the grasshopper incident and the whoop-la affair are peculiar happenings which are enough to make us doubt our own future.
Indeed, if a fellow like Clown was to travel the country and repeatedly declare "I am a Yedo kid," no wonder the country folk would decide that the flippant are Yedo kids and Yedo kids are flippant.
He was on his way to our lines with some missive, and had little enough to say to us, though frivolous and flippant questions were showered upon him from most saddles.
It is rather too bad of Fred to repeat my flippant speeches to Mr. Farebrother.
It is a grievously flippant question to ask when the most glorious of all love-poems is in question; yet I ask it very seriously, and merely in a symbolic way.
In one terrible passage which he wrote in a flippant novel called "The Young Duke" he speaks about the woful fate of a man who feels himself full of strength and ability, and who is nevertheless compelled to live in obscurity.
Thus much I will say--the flippant devourer of books can neither be wise nor strong nor useful; and it is his tribe who have discredited a pursuit which once was noble and of good report.
She looked at him sternly as she spoke, as though defying him to be flippant in return.
Rose, startled, made some vague and flippant reply.
She became flippant for the benefit of Uncle George.
The character of the remark--flippant to the verge of good taste!
He thought of Dickens' famous utterance on the subject of being flippant about one's life's work; he thought of the example of Congreve.
Indeed, they are apt to be indignant with flippant sceptics, who declare themselves as ready to believe in the Warnham Tortoise as in the Field Place Snake.
Of course the sixteen-years-old girl did not deem herself under an obligation of honour to withhold from her only sister the flippant utterances of so recent an acquaintance.
A flippantreply was what she asked and needed--something flippant and a little cynical.
His treatment of Scott, on the other hand, is idlyflippant and patronising.
You are not a prig; and I know I amflippant beyond words.
I want you to talk to me about it; because the service was so much more solemn than I had expected; I have never been at any but flippant weddings--what?
And this is the woman of whose thousand virtues I dared to speak in flippant jest.
A man requires less flippant occupation for the premature sunset of his days.
Renniker, being in a flippant mood, mentioned a fashionable watering-place on the South Coast.
With a flippant step before the Seigneur, he shook his bells at him.
Ere he had spoken far, flippant gallants had ceased to flutter handkerchiefs, to move their swords idly upon the floor.
Indeed, I think I sometimes rather pained Simpson with my flippant remarks, for I found that the beliefs of his boyhood were still powerful in his life.
The questions I asked him, I remember, were almost flippant in their nature.
But the girl, whose name, she said, was Bessy Gillies, answered in so flippant and fearless a way that the auditors were much amused.
He was a flippant unstable being, one on whom nothing appeared a difficulty, in his own estimation, but who could effect very little after all.
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