Handel had continued to develop his own style, based on the grand manner of old Scarlatti, but Handel's operas were practically unknown outside London and Hamburg; in Italy, Scarlatti's style had already become old-fashioned before his death in 1725, and opera was moving on towards the lighter and flimsier manner of Galuppi, who first came to London in this year of Serse, 1738. In choosing the libretto of Serse, Handel seems to have been making a desperate attempt to keep up with the taste of the day.
"Handel"
Edward J. Dent
This is flimsy stuff and it gets even flimsier when the issue of causal deviance is debated.
"Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema"
Sam Vaknin
Presently the descent became steeper and the bridge flimsier, and sprays from the American Fall began to rain down on us in fast increasing sheets that soon became blinding, and after that our progress was mostly in the nature of groping.
"Sketches New and Old, Part 1."
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)