It was inevitable that such a gathering would produce a number of talking points – from the matchless urbanity of Phil Spector biographer Mick Brown, to the extraordinary powers of endurance exhibited by Roy Carr's hair – but the pressing nature of the business in hand would soon render such frivolous concerns irrelevant.
As French President Nicolas Sarkozy basks in the international limelight, Americans should be concerned that the lack of end game strategy in Libya will render Western actions frivolous.
Death, however blithely rendered, was not a frivolous matter on television 20 and 30 years ago.
Bruni, who covered the Bush candidacy at length for The Times, concentrates on Bush's personality and mannerisms, which he renders as oddly prankish and frivolous for a politician, at least until grounded by the events of Sept. 11.
But that's the nature of being a fan: They render everything they touch superficial and frivolous.
"It's a blanket term that renders a wide variety of literature frivolous.
Long ago, before MoviePass (temporarily?) rendered the entire movie-going experience as frivolous as opening up Netflix, walking out during the middle of a film was a rarely employed act of protest.
This declaration of legality in the Hague Convention, and the international rules of war on seizures, rendered the allegation of an international law violation in Ricaud sufficiently frivolous so that consideration on the merits was unnecessary.
For decades public companies have complained that the enormous damage awards threatened in securities class actions renders settlement of even non-meritorious cases rational, promoting the filing of frivolous suits.
Its deeply Scottish Presbyterian fulminations against materialistic desires for "trinkets of frivolous utility", and lofty observation that man has some principles "which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it", can be made to sound almost socialist.
