Sentence examples similar to frivolous character from inspiring English sources

Although he says of his frivolous intellectual characters, "They are me," he doesn't just play with ideas, he's after the truth.

A rewatch of the show and movies has proved that it's definitely a better aspiration than the other characters' frivolous options.

Gilbert, with his thick, curly hair and celebrated "piercing gaze," plays the title character, a frivolous aristocrat at the court of Louis XIII (Arthur Lubin) who discovers both great love and a higher calling when he assumes the name of a dead revolutionary and enters the estate of a provincial viscount.

Watching the seemingly frivolous sparring among these characters, you experience the discomfort of being a guest at another family's dinner table, when you suddenly sense barbs beneath coded banter.

He enjoys traditional Icelandic cuisine — "The usual?" a takeout server asks him; "Yes, I'll have a sheep's head" is the reply — and carries himself with a weary dignity that makes most of Ingmar Bergman's characters seem frivolous by comparison.

Someone whose images also resonated with the masses long before the digital era afforded fifteen minutes of fame to characters so frivolous even Andy Warhol would have raised his hands in frustration.

Thanks to excellent Snopes.com, which serves to debunk urban legends, we now know Kathleen Robertson, her unruly toddler and the other characters pressing their frivolous claims before gullible juries were in fact fictional creations.

There are also a number of character typology studies — some frivolous and some more serious — that have sought to define the roles office workers play.

In fact, in focussing so closely on the ostensibly frivolous conversations between (and within) her characters, Heti seems to be questioning the idea of superficiality altogether.

But most important is the fear and uncertainty with which the cast members invest their characters, even in their most frivolous moments.

In his whirlwind of creating a character he discards anything social or frivolous.' He is, as Blanchett has said, a man of few words.