frivolity
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Instead, like a still condensing sugar-saturated slop into a refined liquor, this downsizing concentrates the force of his images, shifting the mood from one of frivolity to seriousness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Mixing humour and politics - a tactic social scientists call "tactical frivolity" - is not new.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
It’s been a tough morning on all of us, her supervisor sighs, “and I thought a little frivolity would be just what the doctor ordered.”
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025
The coincidences and twists fit together, but there’s no deeper reason why this story had to be set in the beauty industry except that it’s a business built on facade, fantasy and seeming frivolity.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2024
But she not only rejected the idea, she reproached herself for the frivolity of her thought.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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