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And this want of knowledge and of respect for knowledge was a serious deficiency. It gave sometimes a tone of thoughtless flippancy to his otherwise earnest language.
"Though, of course, I know, as far as that is concerned, we might as well be married to-morrow and have done with it!" "Ah! but it is due to her to your mother." "I suppose it is. But the whole situation is grotesque. I must look out for some way of making money. Any suggestions thankfully received!" Marsham spoke with an irritable flippancy.
There was as little comfort for Olive as there had been on the whole alarm in the recollection of that off-hand speech of Verena's about her preference for "free unions." This had been mere maiden flippancy; she had not known the meaning of what she said.
Patients will bore you to death with long and tedious histories of all their ailments since the days when they chewed a gutta-percha teething-ring, and to appear impatient is to court a reputation for flippancy and want of attention. Great men may hold up their hands and cry "Enough!"
The raindrops streaming over the panes look like tears running down a face, and the wind is shrieking through the maple grove. "This hasn't been a nice Christmas Day in any way. Nan had toothache and Susan had red eyes, and assumed a weird and gruesome flippancy of manner to deceive us into thinking she hadn't; and Jims had a bad cold all day and I'm afraid of croup.
Her father was now absent from home more frequently and seemed to avoid being alone with her. They had never discussed the state of their affairs, for he assumed with Lucy a determined flippancy which prevented any serious conversation.
I wonder now if he does catch it, does she lose it?" Flippant as were the words, the voice that uttered them shook a little. Aunt Hannah smiled indulgently Aunt Hannah had heard only the flippancy, not the shake. "I don't know, my dear. You might ask him this afternoon." Billy made a sudden movement. The china egg in her lap rolled to the floor.
Which was strange when you consider that all his life, until three months ago, he had lived in the midst of just such unthinking flippancy, had been a part of it and had considered as much as he ever considered anything that it was the only life worth living.
As soon as she was safely tucked up in the dog-cart, with no way of escape, Elisabeth saw a look in Alan's eyes which told her that he meant to make love to her; so with that old, old feminine instinct, which made the prehistoric woman take to her heels when the prehistoric man began to run after her, this daughter of the nineteenth century took refuge in an armour of flippancy, which is the best shield yet invented for resisting Cupid's darts.
I've tried to be charitable. And I've tried to be good in my way; but not because I wanted to go to heaven, and all that. I I don't believe in heaven," she ended with terrified flippancy. "Perhaps not," said Dr. Lavendar sadly; "but, oh, my child, how you do believe in hell!" She stared at him for one broken moment; then flung her arms out on the table beside her, and dropped her head upon them.
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