| There's a lot to be said for keeping things simple and direct without too much frippery. |
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| But there in the middle of all this fanciness and frippery was this miserable, small, cold lump that, when cooked originally, had been burned. |
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| A house of this size does not leave much room for frippery and single-task space, so many areas double as sleeping cubbies for overflow visitors. |
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| You know, somewhere deep inside, that this pointless piece of frippery will find its way into your heart and your bathroom. |
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| This band aren't about impressing people with razzle-dazzle or frippery, they're about digging in and staying put until you listen. |
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| Every type of panty, bra and female frippery imaginable was hanging in the breeze. |
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| There wasn't nearly as much frippery on Gideon's dress, she could inhabit that dress. |
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| The top layers of my skirt may be pure satin frippery, but the underskirt is tight. |
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| Each item of frippery has been hand-crafted and restyled with only the best of our obscure finds and the finest embellishments. |
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| Do not make the mistake of thinking this is mere frippery, for where there is ceremony, there is power. |
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| Although indicative of his fondness for frippery, the quip also points to his lack of political insight. |
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| But peek behind the curtain, and you'll find there's a lot more going on here than just period frippery. |
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| I don't want to use the term basic, but there wasn't a lot of flashy frippery to get in the way of the good music. |
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| There was no such frippery for Michael, who helicoptered back to Italy. |
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| They're made from styrofoam balls, ribbon, pins, and other frippery. |
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| Melvin found himself glad he had not allowed Grover to dress him up in all his formal frippery, opting instead for riding breeches and a plain lawn shirt. |
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| And who among us knew that one of the tasks of a royal footman is not merely to stand about the place with a stern gaze and assorted frippery on his head? |
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| But, like Mozart's music, Ozick's prose flirts with frippery. |
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| What had seemed the ultimate in singing from the 17th to well into the 19th century was now anathematized as presumptuous frippery. |
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| I thought I could supplement the Italian TV frippery with a high fibre diet of Radio 4 – Today, PM, The World at One and so on. |
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| The trousseau had accompanied my mother on her sea journey from Scotland, a hopeless chest filled with the sort of frippery that quickly disintegrates in Africa. |
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| There are numerous examples of these small-scale, short-lived invasions. Hardened business travellers, one might think, would be immune to such frippery. |
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| Arts and culture become a frippery in this format and suffer the consequences of decreased public provincial exposure, resulting in less public awareness and turnout. |
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| With all frippery stripped away, the power comes entirely from the form. |
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| But why forgo indulging in all the frippery the boutiques have to offer, with their work-of-art interiors and over-the-top tissue paper and ribbons, in favour of scrabbling about for last season's cast-offs? |
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| Poor POET-APE, that would be thought our chief, Whose works are e'en the frippery of wit, From brokage is become so bold a thief, As we, the robb'd, leave rage, and pity it. |
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