| These two words connote at once a corporeal indwelling of the Divine, and an empty, arrogant persiflage. |
| The visiting foreign admirals wrap the Shogun's first counsellor in persiflage and flags, until he is literally a pinwheel of national promises. |
| Oh, but I prefer that so much to persiflage, said Adrienne, with her tranquillity. |
| Its all ephemera and persiflage, as we sit mocking in the plumes as political gadflies who tell the truth. |
| There was no joking here, nor that elephantine persiflage which marks rough men when they forgather in the wilderness. |
| In the presence of guests, such family crises must be tided over with neat persiflage. |
