When asked why he designed two 110-storey buildings instead of one 220-storey building, he replied, flippantly, " I didn't want to lose the human touch."
Therefore, it is not strange that she shrank from hearing it flippantly discussed and marriage treated as a bargain to be haggled over, with little thought of its high duties, great responsibilities, and tender joys.
The Lensman ignored as completely as did the Observer, if not as flippantly, the distinct possibility that at any moment the Observatory and all that it contained might be resolved into their component atoms.
It's not something that we can flippantly rebuild and it needs to match at least the way our contrition needs to match the way the person felt in their losing trust for us.
And one of the things that you said that I want to focus in on real quick is the term character, because we throw it around, you know, almost flippantly, right?