Sentence examples for would be frivolous from inspiring English sources

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Strictly speaking, anything more would be frivolous.

"Further solicitation would be frivolous and vexatious," says the narrator, "and Murphy, with fool's mate in his soul, retires".

Opponents of the law say a suit would be frivolous, and the State Senate minority leader, Kate Kelly, a Boise Democrat, complained about the law's possible price tag.

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.

And the idea of photographing glass versions of the national flowers of nations on Amnesty International's list of countries engaging in political disappearances would be frivolous if it wasn't so lugubriously executed.

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What could she say to him, she wrote, that would not be "frivolous, superficial"?

But there would be nothing frivolous about a ticking bomb.

I thought a figurative sculpture would be too frivolous.

The author, already known for his writing on subjects considered serious, anticipated that his latest interest would be considered frivolous.

"I wouldn't want to be frivolous with what has happened in Tlatlaya or Iguala, but the film shows a cycle in which the same stories repeat themselves," Estrada said.

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