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Examples for "flippancy "
Examples for "flippancy "
1 And it will save me from all flippancy in my religious life.
2 Before his growing earnestness she resorted quickly to the defence of flippancy .
3 Neither was there the flippancy that a shallow woman might have manifested.
4 He found it hard, however, to imitate the flippancy of her tone.
5 She is above that affectation of brilliancy which is often mere flippancy .
1 Beneath his smiling light - mindedness there was a surprising depth of .
2 Against social immorality or village light - mindedness he was relentlessly savage.
3 He suffers from an illness of the mind-light-mindedness.
4 The natural light - mindedness of a healthy lad easily disposes of the problems which disturb the older mind.
5 Why does he fall for light - mindedness ?
6 By your light - mindedness and vanity you have raised a storm that no man can see the end of!
7 But since he had become acquainted with Socrates, all desire for pleasure and all light - mindedness had gone from him.
8 This is no light - mindedness that thou beholdest in me, but the valiancy that the Fathers have set in mine heart.
9 Here lies the danger of our national light-mindedness,-forit is seldom light-heartedness ;weare no whit more light-heartedthan our neighbours.
10 I have only been amazed at the self-possession with which the queen goes through her part, and wondered how far her light - mindedness will carry her.
11 The site and situation of the gate, for one thing, was of itself enough to banish all light - mindedness from the man who was stationed there.
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