This is the great strength of "Stay, Illusion": the frolicsome gravity, the feeling of a helpless stenographer taking down what one of these poems calls "Notes from the Trepidarium" (a typical Brock-Broido coinage, fusing "trepidation" and "tepidarium," the warm room in the Roman bath).
For all its frolicsome spirit, "Soirée" is a model of serious construction.
And I, for one, found it a delightful goof that honored the play's frolicsome spirit, and found amusing analogues for its characters and their romantic dilemmas.
Aw, look at those frisky, frolicsome creatures up there, in their bright tufted costumes and motley makeup.
The book had a similar divergence of tone - what Kenneth Allsop called "the sinister and the frolicsome" - that he had employed so brilliantly in A High Wind in Jamaica.
That year also included the publication of Leslie Fiedler's frolicsome essay, "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!," which argued that homosexual fellow-feeling was a central theme in American literature.
The effect is frolicsome rather than egotistical.
— So charmingly frolicsome, so scarily intense.
The frolicsome initial Allegro merges bulk and bounce.
As often, though, the music was frolicsome or tender.
He was not, by all accounts, a frolicsome fellow.
