(1) Its all ephemera and persiflage , as we sit mocking in the plumes as political gadflies who tell the truth.

(2) An air of persiflage

(3) When they look at academic discourse they see only persiflage : fancy words, convoluted syntax, and the pretentious invocation of authority.

(4) He was not one to mince matters, nor did he wrap up inconvenient topics in persiflage .

(5) He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage .