Such erraticism and frivolity is very evident in the American coverage of the economy. |
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Some brides choose a night of frivolity, such as male exotic dancers and lots of alcohol, much like the groom's bachelor party. |
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This totally non-profit venture will bring singletons together for a night of frivolity. |
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Playwrights came under heavy attack for frivolity, blasphemy, and immorality. |
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She was a glamorous loser, a musical comedy tragedienne, a mixture of frivolity and misfortune. |
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Almost entirely sung through, the contemporary score mixes both vaudevillian frivolity and heartfelt tenderness seamlessly. |
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Inside every one of us lies a Puritan streak which abhors anything smacking of frivolity or done for the sheer joy of it. |
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Fragonard and Watteau created frothy paeans to the pleasures of surface, frivolity, and irresponsibility. |
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Following the First World War, in the 1920s and early 1930s, the cocktail party flourished, with flappers and frivolity going hand in hand. |
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The problem with the digital promise lies not its frivolity or its shallowness. |
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The complacent frivolity of its lavish mosaics suggests that the declining Roman empire had no apprehensions of imminent fall. |
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Some reporters who covered this story described it in tones of frivolity and amusement. |
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He championed human values in art and denounced what he considered the frivolity or vacuity of much contemporary painting and sculpture. |
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The first story admits of a little frivolity, as we see in the conversation of the girls and the bawdy chat of Graham. |
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The complaints aren't about the tone, the frivolity, or the joking references to pop culture. |
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It is very atmospheric with some genuinely frightening moments in the middle of all the frivolity. |
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It kind of reminds me of the underlying significance of the bacchanalian frivolity of Carnival back home. |
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For the first time it truly came home to us what had happened and despite our frivolity what might have been lost on the M4 today. |
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Their play with the golden balls was more frolicsome and a couple that rolled into the orchestra pit added a bit more frivolity. |
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I have always considered them a frivolity that does nothing to enhance the condition of womanhood. |
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The decision by Labour to funk the presidential election underlines that party's frivolity. |
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In the face of war and mass slaughter, he has proved it retains the ability to shock us with the sheer frivolity of its efforts in futility. |
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If anything illustrates the sheer vacuousness and frivolity of the so-called metropolitan elite I have yet to hear it. |
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Excessive frivolity has always been frowned upon by some, and Christmas was not celebrated by the Puritans or Calvinists. |
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Katherine first started therapy as a rigid, unyielding business person, with no sense of frivolity or joy. |
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Shrines testify that the vocation of life is not dissipation, frivolity or escape, but praise, peace and joy. |
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This exhibit features furniture, fashion, function, and frivolity. |
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Propaganda or frivolity are set loose to create an unreal image of the world. |
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No one knows exactly when the tradition got started in St Lucia but the event is celebrated with gusto and much frivolity with activities lasting up to a week. |
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Do not renounce salvation and eternal life for the sake of transience and frivolity of this life. |
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Though Marie-Antoinette was guiltless, the scandal confirmed the belief of contemporaries in her moral laxness and frivolity. |
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British American Tobacco is considered by some to be run as a proper business, and few of us would accuse their managers of frivolity. |
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For their detractors it was proof of unbecoming frivolity on a solemn occasion. In this section No longer a shining example Will there be more? |
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The tough world from the steel buildings in combination with the frivolity from an orchestra? |
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We asked for a review by the attorney general of each province to prevent frivolity and it was denied. |
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How does the member square that frivolity of throwing money around with so-called Conservative responsibility? |
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It is exactly why we have opposition days, for serious matters, not the usual frivolity that it puts on the floor of the House of Commons. |
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I never noticed in her that excessive frivolity or childish enthusiasm for games and pretty things, so typical of small children. |
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But although the peoples of Adellion could hunt for food and create primitive tools, in their lives there was no beauty or frivolity. |
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Slightly wounded and, above all, deeply tormented, his youth and frivolity vanished brutally while facing existential struggles. |
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When Ben Stiller showed up in full blue Navi makeup in 2010 to mock Avatar, the winking frivolity of it all was hysterical. |
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Wentworth Castle was designed as a trophy home, built for the decadence and frivolity of the Georgian days and the glasshouse is a rare survivor of these times. |
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This is not lost on their commander, Rama, an aspiring military careerist who looks down on frivolity in wartime. |
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It is true also that in maturer minds this spirit of making experiments is too apt to degenerate into restlessness, frivolity, and sciolistic vanity. |
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These adorable, fairytale-like creations, which recall Alice In Wonderland and smack of defiant frivolity and impracticality, are the recessionista's status symbol of choice. |
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This new translation by Adriana Hunter fully captures the elegance and frivolity of its era. |
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It celebrated the frivolity and camaraderie, pain, and pleasure that come with living with other people, even strangers. |
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Along with the frivolity, the main topic was the violent protests engulfing Egypt. |
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Marked from the outset by frivolity, it also lacks substance and logic. |
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The Large Hadron Collider was switched on last week amid scenes of pomp and jollity, much drinking of champagne, speech-making, and miscellaneous frivolity. |
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Heading up the bill is Jeff Mills, still seen by many as the style's definitive voice: hostile to frivolity in an earnest quest for utopia, his sound is triple-distilled dance based around immaculate shifts in pace and mood. |
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Those who stay away through frivolity are those who follow the first idea that comes into their minds, who go to play with the first child they meet, and who ordinarily act without paying attention to what they do. |
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Disciplinary measures are pronounced when there is no need for longer-lasting measures of re-education and especially when the juvenile committed the criminal offence out of imprudence or frivolity. |
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The MIP is organised in five sections, each representing a different continent and contemporary thematic: elegance and le classicism, magic and dynamism, frivolity and hygiene. |
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She had to cope with bitter Saskatchewan winters and gravel roads as she traveled around the province to persuade municipal councilors with vivid memories of the Depression that libraries were not a frivolity. |
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There should be no frivolity where something new has to be created. |
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It is not merely the frivolity of this luxury of ice cream. |
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The frivolity of the play's first half gives way to a darker second half when it's made crystal clear that this good-time girl is really not having a good time at all. |
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