0 behaviour that is silly and not serious, or things that are silly and not important:
1 foolish behavior, or something silly or unimportant:
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.
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愚蠢輕率的行為, 無關痛癢的事物…
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愚蠢轻率所为, 无关痛痒的事物…
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uçarılık, ciddiyetsizlik…
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povrchnost, pošetilost…
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