| These two words connote at once a corporeal indwelling of the Divine, and an empty, arrogant persiflage. |
| All this persiflage, in harmony with the polemics of the Gorgias, derides and degrades the rhetors collectively. |
| Its all ephemera and persiflage, as we sit mocking in the plumes as political gadflies who tell the truth. |
| He was not one to mince matters, nor did he wrap up inconvenient topics in persiflage. |
| The visiting foreign admirals wrap the Shogun's first counsellor in persiflage and flags, until he is literally a pinwheel of national promises. |
| He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage. |
