frivolity Význam & definice

Příklady frivolity

• Ceasing to employ various service groups-for instance at weddings-would inculcate habits of frugality and remove religious impurity, frivolity and vulgarity.

• These did not have to be traitors, simply those who imperilled the nation by frivolity, carelessness or a lack of patriotic commitment.

• Cosmetic neurology, by contrast, does not face the frivolity concern, at least not directly.

• Its members were highly critical of ritualistic worship, frivolity and social amusements, instead promoting simplicity in worship and lifestyle and seclusion from worldly pursuits.

• Yet this oxymoron - "the consecration of the frivolous" - remains suggestive; it intimates that frivolity contains charismatic energies capable of organizing and legitimating a lifestyle.

• The very frivolity of such practices is important: their unproductive nature is, in fact, exactly what is gentlemanly about them.

• It was a mark of frivolity, unworthy of serious aesthetic, let alone a vehicle of serious social reflection.

• We sense that the mediation between, on the one hand, external discipline and respectability, and inner frivolity on the other, is of a precarious nature.