What's the difference between flippancy and sacred?

Flippancy


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being flippant.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Sacred


Definition:

  • (a.) Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.
  • (a.) Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.
  • (a.) Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
  • (a.) Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
  • (a.) Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to.
  • (a.) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
  • (2) He sought only to help the Syrian people and I ask you for all that is sacred to help us and allow him to return home safely to those he loves and those who love him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Cantlie in Syria in 2012.
  • (3) My Paul Nuttalls routine has floated back up the U-bend | Stewart Lee Read more Nuttall told Marr that “nothing should be a sacred cow in British politics.
  • (4) But among the football-faith community the legendary Anfield Road stadium is not considered a sacred site for nothing, and on this memorable night everyone felt what mighty magic can be summoned here.” Describing the match as “a classic in the illustrious history of these two clubs for years to come”, the commentator Daniel Theweleit also believed that the atmosphere at Anfield put Dortmund’s own famed fan culture into the shade: “Even those who have watched the club for centuries agreed that Dortmund has never achieved this kind of intensity.” Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung found satisfaction in seeing the German coach Jürgen Klopp exporting his magic touch across the Channel.
  • (5) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
  • (6) The Bernabéu blockade was dismantled, by necessity, in favour of an approach far closer the sacred Real tradition.
  • (7) Money should not shape the outcome; this sacred and ancient landscape is irreplaceable and unique for so many reasons, we cannot afford to get this wrong.
  • (8) Many in Khomeini’s inner circle opposed making peace, arguing that the “sacred defence” had to continue until Saddam’s rule collapsed.
  • (9) It is a sacred moment, and you feel blessed merely to have witnessed it.
  • (10) In short, Bamako remains uneasy, and the "sacred union" of the last few days can only be temporary.
  • (11) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
  • (12) McLaughlin, the daughter of LaDonna Brave Bull Allard , a Standing Rock Sioux tribe member and founder of the Sacred Stone camp , is one of hundreds of women who have led the growing movement to stop the $3.7bn project threatening their land and culture .
  • (13) We concluded that the sacU gene does not affect sacB expression at the level of secretion but acts on a target within sacR.
  • (14) Faces of the North Dakota pipeline protest: 'Sacred land is who we are' Read more When I asked that question, I was thinking about what I heard from climate activist and environmental lawyer Carolyn Raffensperger, who had spent time at the camp earlier and has a long history in the area.
  • (15) Druids and New Age followers still claim the site as their sacred place.
  • (16) The performances come after the intended release on 24 September of the new LP, which is Sting's first album of original material since 2003's Sacred Love.
  • (17) But what is fundamental, sacred even, is the audience.
  • (18) The only thing she wouldn't do was We Shall Overcome, too sacred to perform on a whim she tells me when I meet her later, besides which - and here she giggles - "we probably won't overcome.
  • (19) Frustrated not over economics but “sacred rights”, they were willing to sacrifice “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor” against the world’s mightiest empire.
  • (20) It’s a great tragedy.” All Yazidi celebrations, such as weddings and the party-like annual pilgrimage to their sacred temple, Lalish, have been put on hold.