CherriesCherries bring with them a certain frivolity, a carefree joy like hearing the far-off laughter of a child at play. From Wordnik.com. [Tender delights] Reference
(The apotheosis of serious newspaper doing frivolity is the FT’s ‘How To Spend It’, of course.). From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » How Not to Save The New York Times] Reference
It induced in me the hint of frivolity which is necessary to procure action. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
Beneath it lay an incurable frivolity which is common to the polite society of every country. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe Journey's End] Reference
In perfect force there is a kind of frivolity, an airiness that can maintain itself in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
Having a "frivolity" budget isn’t such a bad thing. From Wordnik.com. [Define “Miscellaneous” | Impact Lab] Reference
You can stay here and enjoy the frivolity which is dearer to you than your husband, the memory of your dead boy, or -- ". From Wordnik.com. [A Lover in Homespun And Other Stories] Reference
He was a farmer, and not given to acts of frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [On The Road Again] Reference
"The divorce colony, all frivolity and gaiety," you say?. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
By September, frivolity would seem a sorely missed relic. From Wordnik.com. [A Golden Summer] Reference
Yet if this be frivolity, some therapists say, frivol on. From Wordnik.com. [A Pocketful Of Miracles] Reference
He chuckled, a sound without mirth or frivolity, and sang. From Wordnik.com. [Sing] Reference
They are unsentimental, and have little patience for frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [The War In the Words of the Dead] Reference
From all such irreverence and frivolity, good Lord, deliver me!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
But the sinking economy is bound to put some kind of damper on such frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [PMA09: The camera industry learns to adjust] Reference
There's less frivolity, less wild abandon more grown-up themes, more introspection. From Wordnik.com. [Robyn Hitchcock: An Oddball In 'Oslo'] Reference
Bedouin was imbued with a spirit of determination in spite of an apparent frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [Night Bombing with the Bedouins] Reference
The most dignified temples of chance are designed to shelter pleasure and frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Enough of this frivolity, though, let's move on to the awards part of the presentation. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [138] -- "Candidate" Obama Returns] Reference
Looking out upon society, we see how slavish men and women are to fashion and frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Staid people generally neglect it as a frivolity; utilitarians, as a costly superfluity. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
"You, my sweet mother," he writes, "can see neither frivolity nor egotism in these details.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
He is still young in years, though old in frivolity, or vice, whichever you like to call it. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
“On the one side,” he goes on to say, “is Gothic formality; on the other, frivolity.”. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
But what, I ask you, does this lighthearted season of frivolity mean for the serious music lover?. From Wordnik.com. [A Paean to the Music of Summer] Reference
He thought over all the words they had spoken, and found nothing in them but excessive frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
And again, on page 83, he breaks off into attempted frivolity and Yorick whimsicality of narration. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
"Thus," he said, "the novel acquires a moral force which history, in its heavy frivolity, never had.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I was stirred at the aspect of so much frivolity, and I felt myself blush for pity, almost for shame. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It was the peace of a mind superior to fortune; it was the frivolity of a mind prompt in resurrection. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"What am I supposed to do with all the pent-up frivolity I accumulate over a stressful week of work?". From Wordnik.com. [My Drifter Doppelganger] Reference
Formerly, Camors, in his pensive mood, had taken an aversion to these little examples of modern feminine frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And yet, Flossy, in spite of her frivolity, had somehow managed the children far better than Maud was now able to do. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
There's also a tragedy in our heroine's past that's meant to give emotional depth to her taste for theatrical frivolity. From Wordnik.com. [Judi, Judi, Judi! The Divine Ms. D Delivers.] Reference
From this is derived the frivolity of temperament which made him support easily the enormous load of his evils and of his faults. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The city's history of fiscal frivolity (a failed Wild West Museum, a minor league baseball team) has also contributed to the current mess. From Wordnik.com. [The Harrisburg Canary] Reference
In the meantime, my cousins in Gaza wonder at such frivolity, when they worry about getting paid and when they will be able to be set free. From Wordnik.com. [Hani Almadhoun: Palestine: Too Many Managers, Not Enough Leaders] Reference
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