Flippant
Original Sources:
"No doubt there are badly written cookbooks, but few are either published or read; flippant insurance companies go bankrupt; and pompous lovers have trouble finding mates. This desire of writers to please - to communicate with their audiences - is the basic law of rhetoric."
McCuen, Jo Ray,
and Winkler, Anthony C.. Readings for Writers. Cambridge, MA: Heinle
& Heinle Publishing Company, 2004. Print.
Definition*:
frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity.
*All definitions are from the source found in THIS post.
Second Source:
"A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others."
"Thoughts
On The Business Of Life." Thoughts and Quotes: A flippant, frivolou....
N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Jan. 2014.
<http://thoughts.forbes.com/thoughts/respect-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-a-flippant-frivolous>.
Commentary:
Flippant makes me think of aquatic animals such as whales and dolphins, and penguins as well. I initially thought that flippant had a positive, happy connotation, when it has the opposite. In the original source, insurance companies are described as disrespectful organizations that go bankrupt due to their lack of success in business. In the second source, a shallow man and his scornful actions are compared to a man who has respect for himself and does not think cruelly of others.
Flippant makes me think of aquatic animals such as whales and dolphins, and penguins as well. I initially thought that flippant had a positive, happy connotation, when it has the opposite. In the original source, insurance companies are described as disrespectful organizations that go bankrupt due to their lack of success in business. In the second source, a shallow man and his scornful actions are compared to a man who has respect for himself and does not think cruelly of others.
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