frivolities

Tamerlan also reportedly shunned such frivolities as pop music for songs such as “I Dedicate My Life to Jihad.”

Capricious frivolities had to make way for a manlier art, matter “that was worthy to rivet the gaze of a free nation upon itself.”

Like Luther, he had no time for frivolities, and looked upon himself as commissioned to do important work.

They were captivated by trifles and frivolities, rather than directing their strength to the end in view.

We shall lead the country life, though he'll have to come to London now and again for his serious 'frivolities.'

Like a true femme galante of the seventeenth century, she coloured her very frivolities with an air of culture.