Sentence examples for flippant take from inspiring English sources

· Channel 4's More4 had an unfortunately flippant take on Heather Mills' ferocious attack on the media last week.

Words — some casual or flippant — can take on exaggerated meanings before a game of this magnitude.

Taken slower, Hand In My Pocket loses its breeziness: lyrics that sounded cheerily flippant now take themselves very seriously.

Indian Point produces 2,000 megawatts of power, but some opponents are flippant about what it would take to replace that amount of energy.

Like that hospital-set series, No Offence is unafraid to show the flippant side of a serious job and take compelling risks with tone, wrong-footing you so you find yourself laughing at wrong moments and crying when you didn't expect to care.

My whole job in life has been to make people smile and have a good time, but when I say good time, that doesn't mean a flippant time, but to give people something to take back home apart from an empty pack of popcorn".

Ministers have decided that the best tone to take is "serious and sorrowful", rather than flippant mockery, hence Gove's tone.

Having initially treated it as an embarrassing mishap, the vice-president used a TV interview to take full responsibility after being accused of taking a flippant attitude.

Take calculated risks when it comes to money, not flippant ones.

Could it be that we take life far too seriously, and that we are far too flippant and superficial in our consideration of our divinity?

The prime minister's rather flippant attitude stoked immediate backlash among those pushing for federal reform, with many social media users deriding Morrison for refusing to take a stand on the issue.