Sentence examples for something as frivolous from inspiring English sources

Still, I'm glad to hear that Paxman is not spending that (allegedly) vast salary on something as frivolous as winter sun.

Executives from all the networks agree that they had to devote the day to news if only because no one could fathom running something as frivolous as a soap opera.

Otherwise it looks like a catchall season, maybe because so much has happened since Americans last settled in for something as frivolous as a new batch of summer movies.

As an old English professor friend of mine likes to say, novels are a curious moral case, in that we feel guilty about not reading more of them but also guilty about doing something as frivolous as reading them; and wouldn't we all be better off with one less thing in the world to feel guilty about?

Clinton, too, Tyler suspects of having some good Aerosmith anecdotes: "You look at her and you think, dude, she's one of us!" Tyler, 64, has been married and divorced twice: "Why would a man and a woman who call themselves soulmates leave each other over something as frivolous as sex?" he asks in his autobiography.

Not to be impolite, but Republicans like Karl Rove and Senator Susan Collins (along with some Democrats) lost credibility on this front when they scolded Mr. Obama a few months ago for proposing stimulus spending on something as frivolous as... preparations for a flu pandemic.

Therefore, when it comes to a choice between something perceived as "frivolous," like writing or painting or following any other artistic passion that neither makes us money nor improves our beauty or fitness, we tend to shove that activity down lower and lower on our "to do" lists until it falls off completely.

He called the accusation "as frivolous as it is silly".

Not all those catchy tunes were as frivolous as they sound when heard in the background.

Yet New Hampshire campaigns are as frivolous as any other American elections.

Next in the frivolous constitutional hit parade is the Sixteenth Amendment, but it too will get you labeled as frivolous.