By incorporating a measure of frivolous vaudeville into the otherwise conventional comedy of Le Châlet (1834), Adam stimulated a popular taste for what became the mainstream of operetta.
In "Magnificent Obsession," from 1954, Hudson's graceful strength and calm passion lent the conversion of a frivolous playboy into a brain surgeon a quasi-religious pathos.
In a third, the three pigs, in dinner dress, stick their frivolous heads into the wolf's jaw… Can you guess what happens next?
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet In "Magnificent Obsession," from 1954, Hudson's graceful strength and calm passion lent the conversion of a frivolous playboy into a brain surgeon a quasi-religious pathos.
At her best, Mercer, who died in 1984, could transform even the most frivolous ditty into a dramatic monologue infused with the compassion and twinkling merriment of a romantic sage.
For eight months, there was so much else to do, the serious and the frivolous meshing into a scheduling tsunami that sent Serena Williams spinning far from the tennis universe.
"My government is not very happy about increasing that to cover the costs of another court when we already have one". The Bush administration opposes the international court on the grounds that a foreign prosecutor may be able to conduct frivolous investigations into alleged war crimes by American nationals.
A sycophantic snob and posturing dandy, he frittered away his youth -- and his father's money -- trying to ingratiate himself with the idle rich; in his masterpiece, "Remembrance of Things Past," he would transform those frivolous experiences into a luminous meditation on the nature of time and memory and loss.
Elevating these terminations from their position of frivolous abundance into something altogether more poignant is Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza, who's created a compilation of someone who's really, really bad at video games killing character after character, set to the chiptune of Tears for Fears' "Mad World".
She is glad she didn't put that money into frivolous purchases.
