(1) Manic patients produced thought disorders that revealed both prominent combinatory thinking and intrusions of irrelevant ideas into the stream of discourse, usually with flippancy and humor.
(2) Apologies for the flippancy, but things have moved on a bit since the last coronation and United still do not appear to appreciate the seriousness of the new situation.
(3) The thought disorder of manic patients was extravagantly combinatory, usually with humor, flippancy, and playfulness.
(4) The force of this logic is as plain as the flippancy of the Cameron proposal for 27 sovereign nations to fall into line with what amounts to a party management plan.
(5) Underpinning the witty remarks and the textbook flippancy ("call me early, Goering dear, for I'm to be Queen of the May" was apparently Nancy's riposte to news of Diana and Unity's German adventures) though, was an absolute and obdurate self-belief; a self-possessed seriousness only partly disguised by sisterly teasing.
(6) Apologies for the flippancy but things have moved on a bit since the last coronation and United still do not appear to appreciate the seriousness of the new situation.
(7) He also knows when to skip the flippancies: he concedes that the scientific advances of the last 100 years now mean that it is possible to consider life in terms of physics and chemistry ("no life force, no spirit, no soul seems to be involved") and to see in the universe "a magnificence, and an intricate, elegant order far beyond anything our ancestors imagined."
(8) DJ Taylor summed up the Mitfords as “ witty remarks and textbook flippancy [underpinned by] an absolute and obdurate self-belief ”.
(9) It also encapsulates the essential flippancy of the Conservative approach, with the Lib Dems dragged haplessly along behind.
(10) This was when Whoopi Goldberg, discussing the case on a TV panel show, remarked that what happened was "not rape-rape" – something Geimer has tried to treat with the flippancy it deserves.
(11) Other remarks made by Johnson during his visit combined his usual flippancy with hyperbolic enthusiasm for Israel and patronising comments about “Arabs”, not least in his inaugural Winston Churchill speech in Jerusalem.
(12) It's the grubbiness of it, the apparent acceptability of the leer, that makes Page 3 so outdated, embodying as it does the "just a cheeky bit of perving" flippancy of 1970s seaside postcard.
Levity
Definition:
(n.) Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility.
(n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity.
(n.) Lack of gravity and earnestness in deportment or character; trifling gayety; frivolity; sportiveness; vanity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Penetration will only occur once you have established a sense of levity, safety and trust between the both of you, plus a high level of non-penetrative eroticism.
(2) He’s similar in that sense to his icon Dizzee, who was always happy to balance his weightier stuff with moments of levity.
(3) Niemeyer’s buildings are characterised by their levity, playfulness, and curves, which are all antithetical to brutalism.
(4) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
(5) There was more levity in a panel for the unlikely hit political drama Borgen about the intricacies of Danish coalition government, which brought together actors Sidse Babett Knudsen and Pilou Asbaek - who played prime minister Birgitte Nyborg and her spin doctor Kasper Juul.
(6) In Ferguson last summer, there wasn’t much levity in the days after Mike Brown was killed, either.
(7) In this spirit, Formation compels its viewers to acknowledge the beautiful complexity of history, culture and customs, with levity and passion.
(8) Perhaps he was a children's entertainer whom Ivan the Terrible enlisted in a rare moment of levity.
(9) They wanted someone associated with April who could inject a little humour and levity, not in a farcical way but in a real way.
(10) With One Love, Grande rose to the occasion with heart, strength and moments of out-of-body levity that can only come from a big pop show.
(11) H ow paranoid were you before you made this movie and how paranoid are you now?” That question was perhaps the only moment of levity during a conversation with documentarian Alex Gibney after the credits rolled on Zero Days, a terrifying account of the cyberwar that is already raging on thumb drives and mainframes from Washington to Tel Aviv to Isfahan Province in Iran and anywhere else that can connect to the internet.
(12) Klopp clearly enjoyed himself on the touchline in the closing stages and he brought a degree of levity into his post-match press conference, even offering up a suggestion for the top of journalists’ pieces.
(13) In a rare moment of levity during Hunt's testimony, the culture secretary was asked about an evening reception and dinner with James Murdoch where he was said to have hidden behind a tree to avoid being seen by the Wall Street Journal's Iain Martin.
(14) This was significant and, at the time, outrageous – in 1969, it must have seemed that seriousness had won out for good, with levity confined to novelty singles and bubblegum.
(15) The archaic levity tells you much about the debate, which, apart from the sponsor's opening remarks and contribution from another women in the chamber – the film-maker Baroness (Beeban) Kidron – did not even come close to articulating the change that has occurred since Tim Berners-Lee delivered his paper on a distributed hypertext system to his boss at CERN in March 1989.
(16) "I didn't want to have sex," says Geimer with brittle levity.
(17) There are moments of levity: when Bill Lincoln is giving evidence about his alibi (buying fish at Billingsgate market on Good Friday), it transpires that he is known by friends as “Billy the Fish”; James Creighton, the mate he meets when he has his regular Turkish bath, and who gives evidence on his behalf, is known as “Jimmy Two Baths”.
(18) They have even invented an alter ego band named The Reflektors, in which they perform wearing giant papier-mache heads of themselves, to add to the levity, and perhaps also to relieve the weight of what it means to be one of the world's biggest bands.
(19) He has been chairing the weekly political debates since 1994, often injecting the proceedings with some much-needed levity, and has become synonymous with the programme, ignoring constant speculation about when he might retire, and who might replace him.
(20) I said I liked it for its conceptual cheekiness – there can be no politics without quixotic energy and levity.