Sentence examples for flippant without from inspiring English sources

It is flippant without being thoughtless.

It manages to be enjoyable without being flippant, incisive without being preachy.

Without her flippant asides, it could be unbearable.

"Without being flippant I almost laughed out loud when I heard that comment," he says.

Scathingly irreverent without being flippant, engaged yet amused, its buoyant optimism perhaps reflects the fact that its author was born only in the late 1970s, a child of a more relaxed racial climate than that of her literary forebears.

Yes, the hereditary principle is a mad way of selecting people for jobs that matter; but, without being flippant, in a constitutional monarchy such as Britain's, the monarch matters rather less than a local councillor, or a good dentist for that matter.

And these days, whenever anybody talks about risk-free investing, it's not hard to hear the famous line uttered by Joseph J. Cassano of A.I.G. in 2007: "It is hard for us, without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing one dollar in any of those transactions".

There is no way to say this without sounding flippant: Conservatives are just wrong on what the definition of marriage is.

Taibbi describes Cassano getting on a conference call with investors in 2007 and, as his credit-default swap portfolio was racking up $352 million in losses, announcing: "It is hard for us, without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing $1 in any of those transactions".

Evidence of a sense of humour bodes well for Angel Haze's future: without meaning to sound flippant, there are only so many albums you can make about the awfulness of your childhood before the subject starts to feel over-exploited.

Reviewers mostly found that cute but ultimately extraneous, however, and the S6 edge is an iteration in action based on that response: it's mostly aesthetic, rather than functional, and it contributes what it needs to without ending up feeling flippant.