That was an unpropitious hour for coming home: it was too early to gain the moral support under ennui of dressing his person for dinner, and too late to undress his mind of the day's frivolous ceremony and affairs, so as to be prepared for a good plunge into the serious business of study.
Trumbull having all those less frivolous airs and gestures which distinguish the predominant races of the north.
"As if it were not very painful to me to see you an idle frivolous creature.
" But others thought this frivolous, and they wore "art fabrics" and barbaric jewelry.
" "Poor, frivolous animal!
" Toad ceased his frivolous antics at once.
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
"For a while I was so frivolous and locoed by the electric lights and the noises of the phonographs and the second-story railroads that I forgot one of the crying needs of my Western system of natural requirements.
"Something frivolous and unnecessary," said Valancy, who had got a pair of goloshes last Christmas and two long-sleeved, woolen undervests the year before.
There is no school in all our land where the young ladies do not feel obliged to close their compositions with a sermon; and you will find that the sermon of the most frivolous and the least religious girl in the school is always the longest and the most relentlessly pious.
The maenads were a group of women who were famous for their lustfulness, feasts and frivolous spirit.
The easiest way to start, as a cash strapped college student, is to save all your coins and deposit every week into a savings account with no ATM card (to avoid temptation to withdraw for frivolous things).
So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten.
Frivolous items like cupcakes produce a good reaction but low satisfaction.
She's gorgeous, they're merely average-looking; she's generous, they're selfish and envious; she's hardworking, they're lazy; she's well-read, they're frivolous.
I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit.
" She added that even familiar places like bedrooms and backyards can become perfect spots for photography as long as we endeavor to discover frivolous beauty in our sometimes prosaic lives.
） Perhaps the main reason these frivolous products and services frustrate me is because of their creators' insistence that changing lives for the better is their reason for being.
I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit.
You can see by these things that she was of a rather vain and frivolous character; still, she had virtues, and enough to make up, I think.
