frivolity

How To Use frivolity In A Sentence

• However, even the wisdom of a political boss is not infallible, and despite the succulent graces of the barbecue numbers of the ascetic and jeans-clad elder worthies, though fed to repletion, collogued unhappily together among the ox-teams and canvas-hooded wagons on the slope, commenting sourly on the frivolity of the dance. Una Of The Hill Country 1911
• As some one who likes musical comedies to be comedies, the frivolity of this piece proved irresistible.
• The complaints aren't about the tone, the frivolity, or the joking references to pop culture.
• Fragonard and Watteau created frothy paeans to the pleasures of surface, frivolity, and irresponsibility.
• I protest to the fact that anyone who has a problem with so much money gone to frivolity is deemed a terrorist by an arrogant politician who has no clue what it’s like tobe underprivileged. Why Protest the Olympics « Colleen Anderson
• Marked from the outset by frivolity, it also lacks substance and logic.
• People dare not let themselves think or feel in this centre of frivolity and folly; they would go mad if they did, and universally commit suicide; for to 'take a thocht and mend' is far from their intention. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
• He championed human values in art and denounced what he considered the frivolity or vacuity of much contemporary painting and sculpture.
• The story concerns a dissolute decadent who is enchanted with his beloved, Alicia's, form, but who detests what he considers to be the frivolity and shallowness of her personality.
• Okay, so maybe charity auctions have not entirely lost their thirst for frivolity. Times, Sunday Times