Sentence examples for Frivolous mind from inspiring English sources

The words applied to Sorel at one point could apply to Stendhal himself: "You haven't a Frenchman's frivolous mind, and you understand the principle of utility".

I would not praise frivolous frivolity, because it has no mind, no taste, no judgment, behind it.

Westerfeld is best known for his sci-fi Uglies series ("Pretties," "Specials," "Extras," etc)., about a future society in which people have a surgical procedure at age 16 that makes their faces beautiful but their minds frivolous and easily controlled.

Still, Mr. Williams does not apologize for reporting on both the weighty and the frivolous things on viewers' minds.

But cooking, in our minds, was wholly frivolous and politically dangerous, an activity that represented everything we were trying to change.

Over the past 500 years everything from chess to coffee houses and vernacular Bibles has been seen as possibly corrupting the young, making them frivolous or indolent or filling their minds with nonsense.

Many may be frivolous (legalizing ferrets as pets comes to mind), and a majority address highly local issues.

It would be a sick man indeed who would choose mind-numbing boredom above a frivolous bit of anger.

But these days the sad fate of pretty, frivolous ornaments is the last thing on my mind.

Call it psychedelic escapism if you want, but using art to knock the mind off its usual tracks is not frivolous.

It's a less frivolous question than it first seems; getting inside the minds of monkeys tells us much about what it means to be a monkey.