For one thing he claimed, not wholly flippantly, that he needed at least a few free weekends.
But a PAD ideologue, Kasit Piromya, who refers flippantly to the jolly mood of the airport sit-ins, is now foreign minister.
GONDWEDirector, African department, IMFWashington, DCYeltsin stands firmSIR You flippantly refer to Boris Yeltsin ("Asia's shifting balance", September 2nd) as a man who could not walk unaided down an aircraft's steps.
Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, a comedian, should not have been arrested for flippantly associating himself with one of the Paris killers.
The essence of nearly all his Contes lies in their licentiousness, which is not presented with frank Rabelaisian verve but is transparently and flippantly disguised.
Later, seeing a commemorative effigy on the father's tomb, he flippantly invited it to dine with him, and the stone ghost duly arrived for dinner as a harbinger of Don Juan's death.
One of the producers of the TV series referred to it flippantly as: "The Sopranos in Middle Earth".
* Having been in a spot of bother of late after I flippantly called Gillian Anderson a bit "batty", I'm cautious about tarnishing any other glamorous figures with the Diary mad brush.
Less flippantly, there's the way he's treated pop music as a platform for role-playing, in terms of both music and character.
Interesting, though, to hear him experimenting with two takes on the same text – "L'Amante impaziente" ("The Impatient Lover") – one flippantly comical, the other full of pathos.
"Not even the stupidest American liberal shares the morality of the totalitarian monsters whom Beck analogizes to American politics so flippantly," Continetti wrote.
