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Every moment he spends on such frivolities is a missed opportunity to advance his cause.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

The navy did not want its midshipmen wasting their time on such frivolities.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

Yet it’s often the case — now as then — that expressions of personal style among serious people are deemed frivolities.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2023

Vargas Llosa has long kept the imaginative territory of his serious political works fenced off from the hedonistic frivolities of Don Rigoberto.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2015

He bore their bad tempers and frivolities with good-humoured contempt, and did not even resent being satirised by Gasparo in a comedy upon the public stage of Venice.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo