But in a book so packed with incident, and so generous with insights, it would be frivolous to complain of a minor trail unpursued.
"It would be frivolous to spend taxpayer dollars on implementing a law that could very well be thrown out" by the courts, said William L. O'Brien, speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
MCI said AT&T's complaints, made formally last week in a filing with the bankruptcy court that is overseeing MCI's reorganization, were "frivolous to the core" as well as "cynical and groundless".
"Since we have such a strong drama department in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, we felt that there was not a need for a secondary minuscule theater and that it would be frivolous to duplicate something that we are already doing very well".
It might be frivolous to blame the whole business on Kerry's gaffe, but it's no exaggeration to say the role of the US in world affairs has taken a big knock over the past week.
To write a story for the sake of storytelling is frivolous, not to say reactionary.
But I think that criticism is frivolous enough to overlook.
Not that he is frivolous, though to Sanborn he seems insanely reckless.
Sometimes all it takes is one small step -- a seemingly innocent decision not to spend money on something that is frivolous or wasteful -- to change your financial situation and start on a better path.
And when people in Mumbai stand holding their drinks, an old complaint in Delhi goes, their banter is frivolous, politically naïve and unfit to be published in the editorial pages of any newspaper.
