"They were more alike than either had imagined--energetic, flippant, irreverent, " says someone who was close to Atwater.
The fact of their youth means there is time to prevent damaging behaviours and flippant attitudes developing.
"Encouraging children to play in roads is typical of the council's careless, flippant attitude to road safety, " he said.
However, their boldness is not merely flippant, but ingenious and oddly compelling.
Air vents, a flippant rear wing, sloping head lamps and a vibrant color palette make this model stand out on the street.
But he has now issued an apology, saying his remarks were "flippant".
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Opposition councillors in Poole are calling for the head of transport to be sacked after her "flippant" remark about the Twin Sails Bridge.
And he came across as somewhat flippant when asked what he had done to help state troopers in Texas get more bargaining rights.
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At risk of seeming flippant, the unseen here is what banks and carmakers have never become thanks to politicians always cushioning their flops.
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The thieves were so flippant about law enforcement that they didn't even bother to conceal the origin of their mailings, a common practice for international hackers.
The remark was described by Councillor Mike Brooke, leader of the Liberal Democrat group, as "very flippant and totally unacceptable" because, he said, the current state of the bridge could mean a "life-threatening situation".
The two British boats, by the way, were initially to be called Cat and Dog but that was thought to be too flippant - the Admiralty in London at the time was not into flippancy.
This is not a flippant suggestion: There were at least five Senate seats in this election cycle that might have been occupied by a Republican come January had not the invincible stupidity of the candidate stood in the way.
Sinn Fein's Phil Flanagan said that many of his constituents in Fermanagh where several of the licences have been granted had been annoyed with the minister, who is also from Fermanagh for her "flippant" attitude to concerns about fracking.
Very quickly, I don't want to be flippant, but we've done Afghanistan, we've done Iraq, so what's the next stop on the war on terror and if you have any ideas how were going to pay for it, that would be good too?
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