Sentence examples for frivolous exercise from inspiring English sources

So dream interpretation was not a frivolous exercise.

I concede that at first blush, a blind taste testing, even one featuring three Champagnes and six sparkling wines, may seem a frivolous exercise.

For the Chinese, who watched art disparaged as a frivolous exercise except when put to didactic use, the freedom to explore simple aesthetic pleasures, to repossess historical works and to show off recent affluence has been liberating.

Nonetheless, Patten says that the proposed debate "is not a frivolous exercise".

Telling a child to be something they aren't yet and have no concept of is a frivolous exercise.

Hoggart's pieces could, in making politicians look ridiculous, be mistaken for frivolous exercises in name-calling, but they actually had deep foundations.

A "We Want You" campaign directed at women isn't merely a frivolous, politically correct exercise.

He called the platform a "frivolous proclamation, an exercise to pacify progressives with the illusion of hard-won progress".

At once a test of our perseverant humanity, running was suddenly beginning to feel like an exercise of arrogant, frivolous inhumanity.

"A disturbing trend has emerged where adversely affected companies initiate frivolous legal action to chill the exercise of the Copyright Act's inalienable termination right.

Such a decoupling scheme deters frivolous lawsuits without reducing defendants' incentive to exercise care.