In other words, in a world emptied of inherited values, consuming what look to be overpriced fripperies may be preferable to consuming nothing. |
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Phone companies tend to advertise their wares with gloss about downloadable music, cruddy cameras and other such fripperies. |
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Once a year I get to make a positive contribution to human society by spending too much money on fripperies for friends. |
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You obviously didn't need all these little fripperies living away from home. |
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He never had any time for such fripperies and actively discouraged us kids from wasting our pocket money in such a depraved manner. |
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But it does demonstrate that the domes were serious weapons, not mere fripperies of fashion. |
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Reforms are rarely followed through, and a fortune is wasted on fripperies. |
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Fashion, fripperies and fun seemed to be consuming the nation. |
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They rejoice as he erects monument after monument to my memory, instead of wasting it on the fripperies of food. |
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Meanwhile, the furniture and fripperies from China keep piling up. |
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What it lacks in five-star fripperies it more than makes up for with a generous helping of authentic Murcian atmosphere. |
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The appeal of such fripperies palls faster than people expect, they say. |
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