| Fragonard and Watteau created frothy paeans to the pleasures of surface, frivolity, and irresponsibility. |
| Following the First World War, in the 1920s and early 1930s, the cocktail party flourished, with flappers and frivolity going hand in hand. |
| Some reporters who covered this story described it in tones of frivolity and amusement. |
| Hilda Lightfoot had come to the city in no mood to enjoy its frivolities, and with no means. |
| England, then, had not recovered from the frivolities inaugurated after the Restoration. |
| He called for children to spy upon their parents, prostitutes to be chastised, sodomites burned alive and irreligious frivolities prohibited. |
