Sentence examples for frivolous thought from inspiring English sources

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At the end of the 1940s, though, he could enjoy being number one on the bestseller list, and indulge himself in the frivolous thought that The Naked and the Dead was "possibly the greatest book written since War And Peace".

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It is alternately frivolous and thought-provoking, crass and spiritually searching.

How frivolous, we thought.

Hume already anticipated a role for subjective psychological traits, noting that our choice of convention often depends upon "the imagination, or the more frivolous properties of our thought and conception" (Treatise, p. 504, note 1).

Letting one's thoughts wander seems frivolous, a waste of practical brainpower.

As such, tangential discussions are encouraged, and panellists are apt to branch off into frivolous conversations, give voice to trains of thought, and share humorous anecdotes from their own lives.

They teased us with it a week or so ago, and although the thought occurred to me, I dismissed it as… well, frivolous.

7.36am BST David Wall emails in with some Suarez thoughts: The FA have a system for increasing a player's suspension if they make a frivolous appeal against the initial sentence.

How frivolous?

That might sound frivolous.

This is no frivolous matter.

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