Sentence examples for frivolous form from inspiring English sources

This use of frivolous form to pursue Puritan objectives makes "The New York Idea" fascinating reading.

Rousseau wrote in his "Confessions" that while he considered tears the most eloquent testimony of love, he also just liked to cry over nothing — a frivolous form of self-indulgence.

The Depression put a damper on seemingly frivolous forms of recreation.

—Speaking of the Gugg: Kriston Capps sifts through the design submissions for Guggenheim Helsinki and comes up with "a funhouse of frivolous forms". .

Instead of finding faults with the more frivolous forms of self-care, and their pollution of the more "serious" self-care, maybe we should instead feel indignant about how every little moment in our lives needs to be productive and meaningful and presented to the world as such.

Am I really being serious, Nauman was suggesting, if I use so frivolous a form?

Viewed together, these seemingly frivolous sartorial preferences form a diabolical pattern.

It can be tempting, particularly if you don't happen to be raising children in one of the hothouse communities Dr. Luthar studies, to dismiss this hyper-education as a frivolous, albeit painful, form of conspicuous consumption, like cosmetic surgery or flashy cars.

Frivolous other tax forms can trigger penalties too.

Moreover, apart from tax returns, frivolous other tax forms can trigger penalties too.

He was the son of a minister, and all his life remained a devout Methodist, eschewing all forms of frivolous enjoyment (Irish joke: Why will Methodists never make love standing up?