By contrast, Abar's husband, Calvin, views life with neither sentiment nor flippancy.
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Many selections showcase the flippancy with which popular culture approached the bomb.
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For those who serve the president: The price of your diligence is his flippancy.
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" The United States' adversaries, Clad continued, "must never hear flippancy or ignorance in America's voice.
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"My usual blend of British sarcasm, provocation, and gallows humor might have come across as flippancy," he said.
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Every doctored Snapchat, and the flippancy of their distribution, proves just how comfortable with bizarre imagery we've become.
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Contraceptive app Natural Cycles has done some work, but it's plagued with accusations of inaccuracy and flippancy regarding privacy.
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And that despite his failing hip and fatuous flippancy during emotional crises, he'll always find women who want him.
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At a time when Holocaust denial and flippancy flourish on the alt-right and elsewhere, that is a sound aim.
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That comes from Mr. de Jesús, whose unapologetically nelly Emory slowly displays an innate dignity beneath the flippancy and frivolity.
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Mr. Trump's bombast, outsize personality, lack of restraint, flippancy and vulgarity could not be more out of place in Washington.
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Oddly, those who openly practice the politics of pettiness don't deny its flippancy, yet they still demand to be taken seriously.
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I was older and fatter, and for some reason the flippancy of addresses to skinny children doesn't translate to overweight adults.
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This flippancy feels like an extension of his blasé tone throughout "White," which treats politics as mere fodder for stylized soliloquy.
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The speech quickly went viral on social media, with many noting the flippancy of Mattis' tone — especially with those Streep jokes.
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It is all rather amusing in a desultory way, but to little effect beyond a casual mix of flippancy and good humor.
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Fleabag segues with canny purposefulness among earnest wistfulness and dismissive flippancy, scorching pain and echoing, hollow silence, giving equal weight to each.
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The artist, whose family is directly involved in the paper business, takes her history with the medium with not a shred of flippancy.
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The messages released have "reflected a disturbing level of casualness and flippancy that seem to corroborate criticisms," of Boeing and the FAA, Sen.
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Unfortunately, if shows' last impressions are how they last in memory, "Transparent" will be remembered for its least admirable qualities — vacillation, imprecision, flippancy.
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" Trilling, once an epoch-defining mind, is now "so reduced as to have become a joke to certain young critics who favor flippancy and lightness.
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Abrahamson's main achievement, enabled by the sensitive and resourceful cast, is to find a tone that is funny without flippancy, sincere without turning to mush.
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His flippancy over the fate of the Kurds in northern Syria has been criminal in its disregard for human life, America's friends and American interests.
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But there's something about the Futuristic flippancy with which people are looking at the end of his glorious, First Team-All Defense reign that aggravates me.
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Those who have never been amused by the showmanship and spectacle that McGregor brings to the sport see unchecked arrogance and a flippancy toward the Featherweight championship.
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As Gareth Damian Martin pointed out, though, the flippancy with which the tools of war get deployed in that historical fiction world do much to undermine that narrative.
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When challenged to delete his own company's Facebook page in response, Musk kept up the flippancy by insisting he didn't even know SpaceX had a company Facebook page.
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There's the wild card of Abigail knowing that her mother is a cheater — she is a sullen teenager who could absolutely tell Ed out of spite, or pure flippancy.
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The appeal of Stories — and of why we're fascinated by our own — lies in their backstage characteristics: their naturalness, their flippancy, their rejection of a certain kind of performance.
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Some analysts chalk up Mr. Trump's flippancy to a lack of knowledge, because one thing many Palestinians and Israelis do agree on is that a one-state formula will not bring peace.
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When you're working in this industry, there is a lot of flippancy when it comes to weight and body image, and I think the topic isn't taken as seriously as it should be.
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Flippancy aside, however, what's particularly sweet about this is that MC Hammer likes Beck enough to want to sign copies of his album, and that Beck likes MC Hammer enough to let him.
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And although I had rolled my eyes at her flippancy then, I have come to realize how right she was: Once you leave the water, you are reminded, as if punched, of the inexorability of your own decline.
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Mixed with the heightening process commonly known as camp and a moral earnestness disguised as flippancy, this sensibility would later show up in the work of John Waters, Bette Midler, Charles Busch, Taylor Mac and even Tony Kushner.
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But the constant flippancy can also stop the viewer caring about what happens in the film, as well as sapping its momentum: "The Nice Guys" keeps grinding to a halt, and it badly needs some of Mel Gibson's manic "Lethal Weapon" energy to get it going again.
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My own personal dilemma aside (and let's be clear: despite my flippancy over the inevitability of the 3.5mm jack going away, I know it will make my own personal life a total pain in the ass), it is interesting to see how Apple's design decisions for its flagship product could reverberate through its secondary businesses.
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The flippancy with which Cannon acts so aggressively towards a young female fan who is literally funding his excuse to be on stage in the first place—despite the fact that he spends every night shouting "think about who you let between your thighs" and "I know where you've been / You're ruining men" into a mic—is fucking gross.
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And that he became audacious, edacious, and loquacious, is evident from such wit and flippancy as he here likes to display.
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We get instead more or less cleverly excogitated, linguistically acrobatic flippancy, along with characters who bypass the heart and end up not mattering.
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The New York Times described the book as somewhat clichéd but praised the honest approach to racial and class warfare. They also felt that the seriousness of the novel's themes made a jarring contrast with the flippancy of the detective characters.
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St Lite was a bay horse bred in Japan by Koiwai Nojo. During hi racing career he was owned by Kato Yusaku and trained by Tanaka Kazuitichiro. He was sired by the British stallion Diolite. His dam Flippancy (GB), was a daughter of Flamboyant.
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He is also associated with Campaign for Real Conkers. In this, Flett forms part of a British satirical tradition of using tongue-in- cheek flippancy to make more serious political points. Flett is a real ale enthusiast and has been a member of CAMRA since 1974.
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"Girls Behaving Badly."New Yorker. May 30, 2005. This prompted negative reactions from both current and former Guerrilla Girls, who objected to "Kahlo" and "Kollwitz" claiming responsibility for having created the collective effort, as well as the flippancy with which they exchanged their anonymity for legal standing.
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The two families experience amusing situations when Ana, who disdains flippancy, falls in love with the irreverent Freddy. Pina becomes infatuated with Sebastian who saved her life. Fernanda later discovers that Pancho is actually the long-lost son she was forced to give up for adoption.
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Madeline Lee in his Democracy to Lucy Lake in The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks. His Ada Lovelace is one of his richest roles. Beginning with a deeply negative perception of her absent father, yet driven to understand his contradictions, Ada challenges his spirit remorselessly. In the contest she matches his masculine flippancy, but comes to see his essential honesty.
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Hunt's flippancy and familiarity, often degenerating into the ludicrous, subsequently made him a target for ridicule and parody. In 1818, Hunt published a collection of poems entitled Foliage, followed in 1819 by Hero and Leander, and Bacchus and Ariadne. In the same year, he reprinted The Story of Rimini and The Descent of Liberty with the title of Poetical Works. Hunt also started the Indicator.
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In September 1890, The Star newspaper described it as "Rank Treason", and the Southampton Observer said it was "at once preposterously pretentious and absurdly paradoxical", while the Huddersfield Examiner reported: "For pertness and flippancy in full swing, you need to no more than invest a penny in a copy of The Whirlwind. It will not be particularly well spent, but you will have obtained an object".
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None are aware that they are all engaged to the same man. Tired of his flippancy, Charming's father forces him to go on a quest known as the Gauntlet, which could help Charming discover his true love. Lenore, a cunning thief, robs a royal carriage full of treasure. Lenore escapes capture and briefly meets Charming, who instantly (yet unknowingly) falls for her when she refuses his advances.
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Lord Mayor Sally Capp stated that Ford's statement was "deliberately divisive and incredibly unhelpful when we are trying to keep our community together" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following backlash, Ford responded on Twitter by stating that although she still stands "100% behind my fury at men exploiting women's unpaid labour", she has "reconsidered her flippancy in discussing it", and is "a big enough person to admit when [she's] misjudged something".
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Nonetheless, future translators would find much to fault in Motteux's version: Samuel Putnam criticized "the prevailing slapstick quality of this work, especially where Sancho Panza is involved, the obtrusion of the obscene where it is found in the original, and the slurring of difficulties through omissions or expanding upon the text". John Ormsby considered Motteux's version "worse than worthless", and denounced its "infusion of Cockney flippancy and facetiousness" into the original.
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The Telegraph: The Victor Meldrew effect: a good moan makes elderly feel better. 31 August 2010. while Jenny Turner in the London Review of Books can observe that "the timing and rhythm (of Geoff Dyer's Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi) have the flippancy of stand-up comedy. The voice has Eeyore in it, and Morrissey and Victor Meldrew, and could only be English and from that postwar, post-punk generation".
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By now Joad was "short and rotund, with bright little eyes, round, rosy cheeks, and a stiff, bristly beard." He dressed in shabby clothing as a test: if people sneered at this they were too petty to merit acquaintance. Job interviews proved a great difficulty for Joad, due to his flippancy. In 1930, however, he left the civil service to become Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London.
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Coming from a family well-versed in Western music (classical jazz), Sarathy started singing in choirs from a young age of four. Her mother Susheela Sarathy is a pianist and conductor of leading Madras choirs at Santhome Church and Lazarus Church. Sunitha's irrepressible talent conquered all, including her initial flippancy. Her performances at Santhome – including devotionals in Latin and Franz Schubert's Ave Maria – elevated her to star status among Madras' church music circles.
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Motyl is also active as a poet, a writer of fiction, and a visual artist. His poems have appeared in "Vanishing Points" (2016). His novels include "Ardor" (2016), "Vovochka" (2015), Fall River (2014), Sweet Snow (2013), My Orchidia (2012), The Jew Who Was Ukrainian (2011), Flippancy (2009), Who Killed Andrei Warhol (2007), and Whiskey Priest (2005). He has done readings of his fiction and poetry at New York's Cornelia Street Café and Bowery Poetry Club.
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As Bagyidaw as a soft liner with flippancy, Mei Nu, too prioritized by the King became powerful in the Royal Palace. Me Nu was part of the war party along with Gen. Maha Bandula and her brother Prince of Salin Maung O, in Bagyidaw's court that advocated war with the British.Myint-U 2006: 112 After the disastrous First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826) that left the country crippled, Bagyidaw became increasingly reclusive.
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Selina arrives later on, having heard about Alfred's condition, but is dismissed by Bruce for her flippancy. She counters that her actions have been based on what she considers surviving in Gotham, and that unlike Bruce, she's accepted who she is. In the GCPD, Gordon receives a call from Lee, who is planning on leaving Gotham and wants him to join her. Gordon decides to leave with her in order to stay together.
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In 1976 the flautist James Galway asked the English composer Sir Lennox Berkeley, a good friend of Poulenc's for many years, to orchestrate the sonata. While working on it, Berkeley wrote in his diary: The musicologist Roger Covell wrote of Berkeley's orchestration, "It is hard to imagine the job being done better … this sonata-concerto has Poulenc's characteristic and attractive mixture of flippancy and tenderness".Covell, Roger. "Classical", The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 May 1986, p.
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Paul also had relationships with two other important characters, Mitchell and Richard (Dick). Paul is highly intelligent and passionate, but is not above obscuring these facts in the course of seduction. Several characters in the book remark upon his physical attractiveness, brought out by Roman features and soft blond hair. Paul's relationship with his mother, Eve, is complex; she yearns to reach out to him but is led towards iciness by Paul's flippancy, which in turn feeds their animosity.
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Lewis, Penguin Special, 2005, Ch. 8, para. 7 In addition to their paper allocation Penguin secured a deal in late 1941, through Bill William's connections with ABCA and CEMA, with the War Office to supply the troops with books through what would be known as the Forces Book Club. Penguin would receive 60 tons a month from Paper Supply in return for 10 titles a month in runs of 75,000 at 5d.Wood, Dignified Flippancy, 1983, p. 23.
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It was addictive. And suddenly, I realized that this > was the form I was looking for to tell my tales of California. The little > short stories I had in my mind subsided and this more organically oriented > novel came into being. I loved the form, the ability that Pushkin had to run > through a wide range of emotions, from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and > passages that would make you think, during and after reading it.
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Many actresses have elements of success, but Della Fox has > success, which is quite a different thing. She has the dash and natural > flippancy of a comedienne. She carries mirth in her face and has laughter > hidden away in her eyes. She only has to move her foot and the house feels > happy, she has only to wink her eye and it laughs, she has only to faint on > a barrel and hundred of people are carried away by convulsions of laughter.
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Life seems too easy for him." The relationship between Jonathon and his mother Alex (Liddy Holloway) was a lot more close however and the two were described as, "best of friends". Jonathon got on well with his sister, Rachel (Angela Bloomfield), but they were competitive; he was, "protective of his baby sister but often finds himself competing wither her for parental funds and attention." Jonathon was also described as naive, he was "by no means cruel but his arrogant flippancy cuts like a knife.
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Royalist courtiers collected around the Queen, but Hudson apparently had no interest in resuming his role of pet or clown and let it be known he would suffer no more jokes or insults. There is no record of the precise offence offered, but in October 1644, Hudson challenged the brother of William Crofts to a duel. Crofts arrived at the duel brandishing a large squirt, but his flippancy would lead to his death, as Hudson fatally shot him in the forehead. Crofts's death was a disaster for Hudson.
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He was to be disappointed however, by the time Elphinstone, by now Lord Keith, was appointed to command the Mediterranean Station a year later, Beaver had not received a promotion, and followed Keith as first lieutenant of the new flagship, HMS Foudroyant, later moving to HMS Barfleur. He appears to have clashed with the junior lieutenants under his command, as they seemed to him to be appointed for promotion rather than for duty. He brought Thomas Cochrane, then a junior lieutenant, to a court martial for disrespect. Cochrane was acquitted, but warned against flippancy.
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Electric Six incorporates a variety of styles, resulting in being termed a "genre-blurring" band. The group's sound has been described as a synthesis of "disco, synth pop, glam, and arena rock," including the falsetto vocals of disco, laden with "rampant solos, be they guitar riffs, synth wails, or strutting drums" that enforce the band's "energetic sound." However, the band members themselves have rejected such genre classifications as "disco-metal" and "disco-punk." Critics have termed their lyrics as "disaffected, angry, ironic and lustful", expressing "macho flippancy" and "tongue-in-cheek pomposity".
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He made his own debut as an actor, reciting a fictitious letter to the publisher wearing a hoodie jacket and jeans. The F.A.Z described the revue as an event, in which "pathos, flippancy, understatement and exaggeration, self-righteousness and self-irony were mixed together in a wondrous, sometimes uplifting way, a milestone in the history of the Springer Group." In an open letter to the executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, he criticized the search engine company, thus triggering a public debate. In April, 2016, Döpfner showed solidarity with the German satirist Jan Böhmermann in an open letter.
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This production was described as "one of Jones's unalloyed successes", while his 1993 Ring Cycle at Covent Garden came in for much criticism: "[it] was greeted with bemusement, even contempt: one paper called it "a monument of garish flippancy and banal cartoon caricature". The audience's catcalls on the first night of Das Rheingold made front-page news" noted Charlotte Higgins in her 2002 interview with the director. He has directed for Amsterdam and Munich, while L'enfant et les sortilèges appeared on the Paris Opera stage. The summer festival at Bregenz featured large-scale productions of Un ballo in maschera and La bohème.
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Michael Cragg of The Guardian found the lyrics "boastful, ridiculously egocentric and often lyrically hilarious". Anupa Mistry of URB noted The-Dream's "neutralizing alpha male steez" and commented that "the most carnal, but still so everyday, type of passion informs" the album's songs. According to Alex Macpherson, The-Dream, "in both his lyrics and instrumentation [...] moves back and forth between flippancy and heart- swelling sincerity as if they were one and the same; he plays the role of the unfaithful boyfriend convincingly, largely, it seems, because he knows that he'll find forgiveness soon enough".Macpherson, Alex.
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" Owen Gleiberman gave the film a C– rating, praising Petty's performance which he said was the only good part of an otherwise "amateurish" film. Jonathan Rosenbaum and Janet Maslin gave moderately positive reviews, with Rosenbaum concluding: "unless you're a preteen boy who hates girls, it's funnier and a lot more fun than Batman Forever." Maslin wrote: "Chief among its strong points is Lori Petty, a buzz-cut fashion plate in a Prozac necklace, who brings the necessary gusto to Tank Girl's flippancy." Leonard Klady from Variety gave a mixed review, saying: "What's missing from the mix is an engaging story to bind together its intriguing bits.
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Further in a deal with the Canadian Government, Penguin had agreed to exclusively publish editions for their armed forces for which they were paid in tons of paper.Wood, A Sort of Dignified Flippancy, 1983, p. 23. By January 1942 the Book Production War Economy Agreement regulations came into force which determined rules on paper quality, type size and margins, consequently Penguin eliminated dust jackets, trimmed margins and replaced sewn bindings with metal staples. Aside from the noticeable deterioration in the appearance of paperbacks it became a practical impossibility to publish books of more than 256 pages resulting in some titles falling out of print for want of material.
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He found that one way to enhance his pitches was to extemporize his commercials, poking fun at the sponsors (while never showing disrespect for the products themselves), the sponsors' company executives, and advertising agency types who wrote the scripted commercials that he regularly ignored. (If he read them at all, he ridiculed them or even threw aside the scripts in front of the cameras.) To the surprise of the advertising agencies and sponsors, Godfrey's flippancy during the commercials frequently enhanced the sales of the sponsor's products. His popularity and ability to sell brought a windfall to CBS, accounting for a significant percentage of their corporate profits.
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In March 2013, Punk set his sights on ending The Undertaker's undefeated WrestleMania streak in an effort to "take something away from the fans" as he believed they had taken the WWE title away from him. He defeated Big Show, Randy Orton and Sheamus in a fatal four-way match to officially earn the right to face The Undertaker. After the death of Paul Bearer, Undertaker's former manager, a storyline involving Punk regularly spiting The Undertaker through displays of flippancy and disrespect towards Bearer's death began, including Punk stealing Bearer's trademark urn. On April 7 at WrestleMania 29, Punk was defeated by The Undertaker, who took back the urn.
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The role and importance of lead poisoning in contributing to the fall of the Roman Empire is the subject of controversy, and its importance and validity is discounted by many historians. John Scarborough, a pharmacologist and classicist, criticized Nriagu's book as "so full of false evidence, miscitations, typographical errors, and a blatant flippancy regarding primary sources that the reader cannot trust the basic arguments."Scarborough, John (1984). The Myth of Lead Poisoning Among the Romans: An Essay Review He concluded that ancient authorities were well aware of lead poisoning and that it was not endemic in the Roman empire nor did it cause its fall.
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CM Punk, Randy Orton, Big Show and Sheamus fought in a fatal four-way match to determine who would face him at WrestleMania 29, which Punk won. After the real-life death of Paul Bearer on March 5, 2013, a storyline involving Punk regularly spiting The Undertaker through displays of flippancy and disrespect towards Bearer's death began. Punk interrupted The Undertaker's ceremony to honor Bearer on Raw, stealing the trademark urn and later using it to attack Kane, humiliate The Brothers of Destruction and mock Bearer. Undertaker defeated Punk at WrestleMania 29 to extend his Streak to 21–0 and then took back the urn.
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Captains Blue and Ochre (voiced by Ed Bishop and Jeremy Wilkin) are selected for the mission and briefed at Maxwell Field, where they behave with uncharacteristic flippancy and absent-mindedness. Before taking off in a V17 bomber, they encounter a man whom they fail to recognise as Captain Black, who switches their flight plan. On Cloudbase, all personnel except White and Scarlet fall into a trance-like state. White and Scarlet realise that the champagne is to blame and that they are both unaffected because neither of them drank any – White was absent from the party, and Blue accidentally knocked Scarlet's glass out of his hand.
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Carson, a fellow Dubliner who had attended Trinity College, Dublin at the same time as Wilde, cross-examined Wilde on how he perceived the moral content of his works. Wilde replied with characteristic wit and flippancy, claiming that works of art are not capable of being moral or immoral but only well or poorly made, and that only "brutes and illiterates", whose views on art "are incalculably stupid", would make such judgements about art. Carson, a leading barrister, diverged from the normal practice of asking closed questions. Carson pressed Wilde on each topic from every angle, squeezing out nuances of meaning from Wilde's answers, removing them from their aesthetic context and portraying Wilde as evasive and decadent.
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The writer Alan Bennett thinks that "inspired though his language is, I can never take more than ten pages of the novels at a time, their relentless flippancy wearing and tedious",Bennett, p. 356 while the literary critic Q. D. Leavis writes that Wodehouse had a "stereotyped humour ... of ingenious variations on a laugh in one place".Leavis, p. 263 In a 2010 study of Wodehouse's few relatively serious novels, such as The Coming of Bill (1919), Jill the Reckless (1920) and The Adventures of Sally (1922), David Heddendorf concludes that though their literary quality does not match that of the farcical novels, they show a range of empathy and interests that in real life—and in his most comic works—the author seemed to lack.
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301 Although that pre-war look does not resemble the flapper style, their independence may have led to the flapper wisecracking tenacity 30 years later. Woman depicted in typical flapper outfit in the cover art for The Plastic Age, 1924 Writers in the United States such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anita Loos and illustrators such as Russell Patterson, John Held, Jr., Ethel Hays and Faith Burrows popularized the flapper look and lifestyle through their works, and flappers came to be seen as attractive, reckless, and independent. Among those who criticized the flapper craze was writer-critic Dorothy Parker, who penned "Flappers: A Hate Song" to poke fun at the fad. The secretary of labor denounced the "flippancy of the cigarette smoking, cocktail-drinking flapper".
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In January 2010, Claude Lanzmann, published in Marianne magazine, a vigorous criticism of the novel, qualifying the third part of "falsification of history". Lanzmann declared about Yannick Haenel's book: “The scenes he imagines, the words and thoughts that he attributes to real historical figures and to Karski himself are so far removed from any truth […] that we remain amazed in front of such ideological cheek, such flippancy...". Yannick Haenel responded to this criticism by claiming the freedom of the novelist: "literature is a free space where" truth "does not exist, where uncertainties, ambiguities, metamorphoses weave a universe whose meaning is never closed.". Yannick Haenel then reproached Claude Lanzmann for not having included part of Jan Karski's testimony in Shoah because the latter's attitude "did not correspond to what he expected of him", and for making it "impossible that one can see, in his film, a Pole who is not an anti-Semite”.
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Upon its December 1958 U.S. premiere, Bosley Crowther called the film a "tense, exciting and supremely awesome drama...[that] puts the story of the great disaster in simple human terms and yet brings it all into a drama of monumental unity and scope"; according to Crowther: > this remarkable picture is a brilliant and moving account of the behavior of > the people on the Titanic on that night that should never be forgotten. It > is an account of the casualness and flippancy of most of the people right > after the great ship has struck (even though an ominous cascade of water is > pouring into her bowels); of the slow accumulation of panic that finally > mounts to a human holocaust, of shockingly ugly bits of baseness and of > wonderfully brave and noble deeds. The film won numerous awards, including a Golden Globe Award for Best English- Language Foreign Film and received high praise from reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The Wire and AllMusic also included the album in their unordered lists of the best albums of the year. Numerous publications included Madvillainy in various lists of the best albums. Clash positioned it at number 47 in their list of top 100 albums of Clash lifetime, calling it "slapdash and dilapidated, wholly unconcerned with making sense", "defined by its flippancy and attitude to professionalism". The magazine also listed it on their list of ten best hip hop albums ever, calling it "one of this decade’s finest hip-hop albums" that "elevated the profile of both [artists] to whole new levels". Complex placed the album in their list of 100 best albums available on Spotify, calling it "dusty, weeded up, 22-song masterpiece that stood alone and brought us all into its own little world" and stating that "Madlib and MF Doom's classic wasn't meant for the radio, but it was too good to be kept to the underground".
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In my opinion, these columns are as important for what they reveal about the man and his approach to problem solving as they are for what they say about long-term survival. As Mel wrote on pages 122-123, "Most problems resolve themselves into self-evident solutions if you have enough reliable information and if you can eliminate emotion from the evaluation of it." Every problem that he encountered he approached with this attitude—be it field stripping a new gun for the first time, analyzing one of his favorite lyric poems or helping a friend in trouble. This method worked for him because he let neither pomposity nor pedantry warp his judgment; he was kind when the easy answer for someone with such quick wit would have been sarcasm and flippancy; and even when confronted with severe physical problems, he never lost the irreverent sense of humor that reminded him and those of us around him that we were, after all, merely human—flawed, funny creatures, but creatures who can think.
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Philip Day of The Sunday Times noted "How wincingly well Mr Fleming writes"; the reviewer for The Times thought that "[t]his is an ingenious affair, full of recondite knowledge and horrific spills and thrills—of slightly sadistic excitements also—though without the simple and bold design of its predecessor". Elizabeth L Sturch, writing in The Times Literary Supplement, observed that Fleming was "without doubt the most interesting recent recruit among thriller-writers" and that Live and Let Die "fully maintains the promise of ... Casino Royale." Tempering her praise of the book, Sturch thought that "Mr Fleming works often on the edge of flippancy, rather in the spirit of a highbrow", although overall she felt that the novel "contains passages which for sheer excitement have not been surpassed by any modern writer of this kind". The reviewer for The Daily Telegraph felt that "the book is continually exciting, whether it takes us into the heart of Harlem or describes an underwater swim in shark- infested waters; and it is more entertaining because Mr Fleming does not take it all too seriously himself".
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In 2003, The Rock used the Lakers-Kings rivalry to gain cheap heat during a WWE Raw show in Sacramento (The Rock even claimed that he was friends with Laker star Shaquille O'Neal) when he was singing a song about leaving the city; the song's last lyrics were: "I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May." In 2004 during a WWE live event in Germany, John Bradshaw Layfield used Nazi salutes and was booed heavily by the crowd. In April 2006 during his feud with Shawn Michaels, Mr. McMahon used religion and the city to get heat from the crowd in St. Louis, Missouri by saying he went to hell that morning when his driver "got lost and ended up in East St. Louis". More recent examples include CM Punk and Paul Heyman in March 2013 mocking through displays of flippancy and disrespect towards Paul Bearer (who had just died), stealing his trademark urn and with Punk going as far as assaulting The Undertaker and constantly beating him with the urn (with Heyman being dressed up as Bearer) before then boldly opening the urn and emptying its contents over a fallen Undertaker.
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Golden's first novel, Mortals All (Shaman Press), was a futuristic examination of the civil rights of artificially-created humans. A review in Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine described it as "Steeped in the ambience of classic 1950's Galaxy magazine ... social satire, irreverent anti-establishmentarianism, and pseudo-hardboiled narration ... Golden writes with zest and good pacing ... a certain flippancy of characterization and delivery ..." Golden's second novel, Better Than Chocolate (Zumaya Otherworlds), was a futuristic mystery written with undertones of satire and social commentary. It follows San Francisco Police Inspector Noah Dane, who, while hunting his partner's killer and investigating a pair of seemingly unrelated murders, stumbles onto a conspiracy that threatens all humanity. Much to his dismay, his new crime-fighting partner is a Marilyn Monroe celebudroid. A review in Asimov’s Science Fiction says of the book, "If Mickey Spillane had collaborated with both Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick, he might have produced Bruce Golden’s Better Than Chocolate." In Golden's third novel, Evergreen (Zumaya Otherworlds), he created his own planet—a beautiful world populated by majestic forests, ever-changing auroras (called by “sky sprites” by the natives), and the ursu, a primate-like species that may have once achieved sentience.
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"The ugly truth about Peter Rabbit ...", The Guardian, December 7, 2006 Carole Scott writes in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit that the reader cannot help but identify with rebellious little Peter and his plight as all the illustrations are presented from his low-to-the-ground view, most feature Peter in close-up and within touching distance, and Mr. McGregor is distanced from the reader by always being depicted on the far side of Peter. Scott explains: "This identification dramatically instills fear and tension in the reader, and interacts with the frequently distanced voice of the verbal narrative", sometimes with contradictory effects. In the verbal narrative and the illustration for the moment when Mr. McGregor attempts to trap Peter under a garden sieve, for example, the verbal narrative presents the murderous intent of Mr. McGregor as a matter-of-fact, everyday occurrence while the illustration presents the desperate moment from the terrified view of a small animal in fear of his life – a view that is reinforced by the birds that take flight to the left and the right. In the illustration of Peter standing by the locked door, the verbal narrative describes the scene without the flippancy evident in the moment of the sieve.
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