It recalls Sartre's critique on anti-Semites: "they know their remarks are frivolous and open to challenge…But they are amusing themselves…They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert".
This is not a frivolous comparison, given Tarantino's remark that he's out to depict "the Auschwitzian aspects of the slave trade in America".
Although she was now of age, her father maintained an aggressive hostility towards most of her male friends, particularly since, as Hastings remarks, these tended towards the frivolous, the aesthetic and the effeminate.
Working girls flocked to see lamé gowns on the silver screen in the hungry 1930s, but Marie Antoinette is still scorned for frivolous excess with her diamond necklaces, miniature farm and alleged remark "let them eat cake".
The first fully Rococo structure erected at the Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, was the "Turkish Tent" that was still a novelty in 1744; "this fantastic structure introduced that element of frivolous impermanence which became so characteristic of Vauxhall," David Coke has remarked.
In alignment with Obama's previous remarks on tech being used for on-demand food delivery, Wortham noted how technology is producing frivolous products like hoverboards and on-demand laundry services.
As one friend remarked, Ms. Palin is facing potentially high legal bills because of the ethics and other investigations — all frivolous, she said — that were one product of being thrust into the national spotlight.
That might sound frivolous.
That is hardly frivolous.
