frippery

The more stylized approaches of traditional “Streetcar” revivals aren’t just frippery.

Manchester Collective's job, he says, is "to help to reposition classical music so it's close to the heart of cultural life in the UK, rather than being a peripheral frippery for the few rather than the many".

Belafonte turned the famous into folks, mixing the frippery of the format with the gravitas of the moment.

Such fairy-tale frippery is an undeniable red carpet cliché, but at least when it came to Ms. Bailey, the look was also a clever nod to her role as Ariel, a.k.a. the Little Mermaid, in the upcoming film; a bit of strategic movie-marketing magic and a fashion double entendre that took the dress to a whole different level.

All this appears to be a pile of partisan frippery that should never have been filed and could never be taken seriously in the federal courts.