It is similar, but not exactly Dairy Milk," said a spokesman for Cadbury, which was bought by the US giant Kraft in 2010 and is now owned by Mondelez, with a flippancy almost as hard to stomach as this new, Frankenstein's monster of an egg is bound to be.
Mr Tuschi's technique is eccentric, involving some odd animation and creepy music; the tone is erratic, veering from gloom to flippancy.
Elsewhere we see Beckett's theological flippancy—"Is there more God in an elephant than in an oyster?" Belacqua muses and his knack for depicting Dickensian eccentricity in people's attire.
Sidelined by years of state paternalism and excluded from politics, most people did not want to take responsibility for the country's affairs.The flippancy ended when the government abolished price regulation, revealing the worthlessness of Soviet savings, and Boris Yeltsin, faced with an armed rebellion, fired on the Soviet parliament in 1993.
He mostly avoided the flippancy that sometimes undoes him, and seemed authentically indignant.
This gift for rising above the catastrophic with a penetrating flippancy – for asserting a personally costly kind of victory over the Establishment by seeing through its values, and with a wry, stoical loftiness, refusing to subscribe to them – makes Everett heaven-casting as the lead in Hare's The Judas Kiss.
And if that is true for a Chris Morris, then how much more true of ordinary people like Paul Chambers, just making a passing comment out of frustration, and for the sake of his moment of flippancy, his life has been destroyed.
I don't know whether this detail is in the Isherwood novel or is a Ford invention but, in the context of McQueen's suicide, it suddenly changed from a wry detail into an artistically catastrophic flippancy.
For Cameron to bring flippancy, or irony, disingenuousness or whatever it was that prompted him to pretend he was down there in the bear pit with us, alternating constantly between striking blows and regretting having done so – it really was too cruel.
These are the truths of art, genius, fate; she has no truck with the irony or flippancy endemic to the contemporary perspective.
It's the flippancy of the violence that's particularly notable, I think — the violence of, say, "No Country for Old Men" was as violent and terrifying as it should have been; so it's not purely a matter of inurement, I think.
