Sentence examples for essentially frivolous from inspiring English sources
He is essentially frivolous.
He disapproved of novels as essentially frivolous.
It was OK for girls to do English because they were going to marry and have children, but it was thought essentially frivolous.
Southampton gives the impression, Auden writes, of being "a young man who was not really very nice, very conscious of his good looks, able to switch on the charm at any moment, but essentially frivolous, cold-hearted and self-centered".
As might have been ex pected, the night was filled with nostal gia (it always is), but nostalgia is easy, essentially frivolous, and a quite differ ent thing from the sense of mortality that dominated the proceedings from early on.
In his enthusiasm for traditional, large-scale forms, Dutilleux confounds the widely held view that French music is essentially frivolous and charming, while at the same time being steeped in the best Gallic music.
It's astonishing that what is essentially a system of guessing words could become so widespread in our schools, underscoring how fundamentally frivolous many educational bureaucrats have become.
In their suit filed in Kentucky state court in August, Armstrong lawyers claimed that Shemwell's filing of a discrimination complaint with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) amounted to "wrongful use of civil proceedings" -- essentially, a frivolous lawsuit -- after government officials declined to pursue Shemwell's discrimination claim against the company.
The celebration of the dead that followed was only moderately joyous, hardly grotesque, far from frivolous and essentially defiant.
About two weeks ago, the 9th Circuit ruled in Slater's favor, amusingly calling PETA's lawsuit against him "frivolous" and essentially ruling that federal courts lack the authority to hear cases from an animal's point of view.
"Beauty is often treated as an essentially feminine subject, something trivial and frivolous that women are excessively concerned with.
