Ceasing to employ various service groups-for instance at weddings-would inculcate habits of frugality and remove religious impurity,frivolityand vulgarity.
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These did not have to be traitors, simply those who imperilled the nation byfrivolity, carelessness or a lack of patriotic commitment.
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Cosmetic neurology, by contrast, does not face thefrivolityconcern, at least not directly.
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Its members were highly critical of ritualistic worship,frivolityand social amusements, instead promoting simplicity in worship and lifestyle and seclusion from worldly pursuits.
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Yet this oxymoron - "the consecration of the frivolous" - remains suggestive; it intimates thatfrivolitycontains charismatic energies capable of organizing and legitimating a lifestyle.
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The veryfrivolityof such practices is important: their unproductive nature is, in fact, exactly what is gentlemanly about them.
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It was a mark offrivolity, unworthy of serious aesthetic, let alone a vehicle of serious social reflection.
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We sense that the mediation between, on the one hand, external discipline and respectability, and innerfrivolityon the other, is of a precarious nature.
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As such, it necessarily appeared to the hadith folk asfrivolity, a reprehensible distraction from the performance of universal religious duties.
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However, fashion attracted him in the first place because it was associated withfrivolity, fleeting fads, expense, and meaninglessness.
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Fringe, in all its excess andfrivolity, makes all kinds of edges available, interesting, approachable, and tactilely inviting.
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Cheyne knew something was needed to grab the public's attention once more, and fast; perhaps 'amusement' and 'frivolity' were exactly what was necessary.
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This was attributed tofrivolitybecause those people didn't believe in any phylloxera danger, or it was attributed to spite, especially to take revenge on the government agencies.
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Overworking, inducing overtiredness, can be as dangerous as too muchfrivolity, or too much gambling, too much of going to the "flicks," and so on.
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I hope that my ownfrivolitywill be divined as having a serious purpose.
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