Sentence examples for Less flippant from inspiring English sources

I became less flippant, less patient.

They're like Maddie and David in Moonlighting, only less flippant.

His writings there are more technical and much less flippant than on Twitter.

The power chords signal that the songs are less flippant than before; Dexter Holland sings about unfocused rage, romantic misfires and his own unpredictable mood swings.

A less flippant spirituality impelled Harry Slatkin, a fragrance entrepreneur, to introduce a line of candles, called simply Kabbalah, imbued with frankincense, cinnamon and myrrh and said to promote sexual energy, spiritual cleansing and the like.

My subsequent, less flippant recommendation was not another Fit, which would have been an uninspired but shrewd response a year ago, but the Mazda 2, a car that has been showered with praise in overseas markets since its debut in 2007.

He is less brazenly flippant with facts than his brethren, mostly because he focuses on setting up liberal politicians for admittedly uncomfortable, but also unanswerable and aggressively beside-the-point questions – such as asking Mayor Mike Bloomberg last month if he would disarm his security detail as part of a ban on guns.

Such a work constituted a challenge, no less effective for being flippant, to Augustus's cherished moral reforms, and it included a number of references, in that context tactless if not indeed provocative, to symbols of the emperor's personal prestige.

Even less helpful is an entirely too flippant attitude toward the potentially valuable role that germ freaks can play in public health education.

She is less patient in building her case — at times slapdash, at times flippant.

I don't mean that to sound flippant, and I don't mean it to sound more or less than what it is, but they're artists with a moment, they can take a moment and make it into something so transcendent that you're not quite sure that it happened or that you were a part of it".