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frivolity
1. In general, they were satisfied with us, but they made some remarks regarding the atmosphere of frivolity in the class and the teacher was obliged to reprimand certain persons
2. They spoke with the voices of women of purpose, and even the girlish banter which sprinkled their conversations was gilded with the genuineness of heartfelt joy, lacking the trivial frivolity so mechanically tittered by other young women tiresomely and without depth
3. Both tribes sitting together feeling often that if frivolity
4. If your holy struggle is against the spiritual fickleness and Faithlessness of Germans, my Alcuin, then it seems that mine is against the vanity and frivolity of English Nuns! Every day, I try to remind my girls of the warning of Saint Paula of Bethlehem: "A clean body and a clean dress mean an unclean soul
5. regardless of the hazards or frivolity of it
6. When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her
7. ” But she not only rejected the idea, she reproached herself for the frivolity of her thought
8. He begged his parents for financial support, but his father wished to teach the young man about frivolity, so he cut him off
9. of his mates and their frivolity as he
10. This frivolity was warmly appreciated on the day by the
11. I think though, that beneath the frivolity, Consol was looking for a
12. Lumbering around the sky in WWII fighters, via “live camera” we were treated to all the fun and frivolity that accompanied a “hit
13. Suddenly, Mohammad Amin stopped and listened… the sound of music and song, raucous laughter and cries of frivolity and debauchery reached his ears! His face reddened with anger, his eyes gleamed with rage and his heart began to beat with sadness, then he shouted, saying, ‘It’s a gathering of criminals
14. Nor is the private sector immune either, deciding to engage in this brand of frivolity instead of maximizing their services for their real customers
15. II,the ineptitude of Philip III, the frivolity of Philip IV, to theimbecility of Charles II; and the
16. She seemed a teaser rather than a seducer of young men though she had a reputation of frivolity and a married lover who was
17. will come out of their vanity and frivolity and their programs!”
18. Their frivolity and pristine
19. Ghosts all! The ghost of beauty, the ghost of stateliness, the ghost of elegance, the ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore, all turning on him eyes that were changed by the death they had died in coming there
20. swashbuckler women, and, in a word, all that nonsense the books of chivalry contain? For myself, I can only say that when I read them, so long as I do not stop to think that they are all lies and frivolity, they give me a certain amount of pleasure; but when I come to consider what they are, I fling the very best of them at the wall, and would fling it into the fire if there were one at hand, as richly deserving such punishment as cheats and impostors out of the range of ordinary
21. I follow another, easier, and to my mind wiser course, and that is to rail at the frivolity of women, at their
22. All the frivolity which often (excuse me, Madam) renders the society of
23. The mother looked young, and the daughter looked old; the mother's complexion was pink, and the daughter's was yellow; the mother set up for frivolity, and the daughter for theology
24. Singular, communed the guest with himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsychosis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity, that the mere acquisition of academic titles should suffice to transform in a pinch of time these votaries of levity into exemplary practitioners of an art which most men anywise eminent have esteemed the noblest
25. There was a lot of emotion and frivolity on that plane, and a lot of drinks being served
26. The conception of riding on horseback for a lady was, in Darya Alexandrovna’s mind, associated with ideas of youthful flirtation and frivolity, which, in her opinion, was unbecoming in Anna’s position
27. For frivolity and jokes and spotted tights were an offense, when they intruded themselves upon a spirit that was exalted into the vague august realm of the romantic
28. frivolity with the serious business of hunting
29. Just the beginning of her strength, and so some sense of frivolity inside of her wanted these impossible torturous slippers
30. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown
31. She gives you the impression that life to her is indeed a vale of tears, and that a smile, never to speak of a laugh, is a frivolity truly reprehensible
32. "And so there is life beyond the grave," I thought with the strange frivolity one has in dreams
33. Externally, Grigory was cold, dignified and taciturn, and spoke, weighing his words, without frivolity
34. Some of those present may perhaps have inwardly noticed it, only to reflect that the anticipation of decay and corruption from the body of such a saint was an actual absurdity, calling for compassion (if not a smile) for the lack of faith and the frivolity it implied
35. Yet, in spite of these edifying memories, it would be difficult to explain the frivolity, absurdity and malice that were manifested beside the coffin of Father Zossima
36. There was scarcely a trace of her former frivolity
37. Among the ladies especially a sort of frivolity was conspicuous, and it could not be said to be a gradual growth
38. In spite of the demands for the change of life, as cognized and expressed by the religious guides and accepted by the wisest men, the majority of men, in spite of the religious relation to these guides, that is, the faith in their teaching, continue in the more complex life to be guided by the previous teaching, just as a man of a family would act, if, knowing how he ought to live at his age, he should from habit and frivolity continue to live a child's life
39. From the frivolity and the stupidity of this hypothesis, one would suppose that it would not attract the attention of any one, and that it would sink into oblivion, like all the works of the same author which followed it; but it turned out quite otherwise
40. Pulling myself together, I set about writing out a fresh set of rules, in the assured conviction that never again would I do a wrong action, waste a single moment on frivolity, or alter the rules which I now decided to frame
41. When I first set foot on Central American soil, however, my majority was still many months ahead of me, and I had not yet done with that period of puerile frivolity through which most youths have to pass
42. The most dignified temples of chance are designed to shelter pleasure and frivolity
43. This constant state of high tension, these perpetual changes from extreme concentration to frivolity, produce, in the end, the Wall Street manners, and the desire for exciting, highly colored amusements
44. Amongst the critics of the Conference there are some persons who affect to sneer at the excursion as if it were sheer frivolity, and was at variance with the avowed scientific objects of the Conference
45. It has eaten too much, drank too much, danced too much, flirted too much, smoked too much, gambled too much, run riot in frivolity, gone mad in greed, flaunted its pageantry of pride, coveted, lusted, blasphemed, forsaken God, despised religion, loved leasing, and hated honest toil, with its health-giving frugality and slow but solid gains
