Sentences with word «frippery»

Matrix Powerwatch counts steps and calories and has no need of fripperies such as chargers or batteries

The script can be dismissed as frippery but I reckon it says something more fundamental about the change in our attitude to democracy and in turn the rise of populism and it's cheerleading bampots like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.

I knew Jennifer of Frippery Vintage would find incredible pieces when she went globetrotting to Italy in search of treasures for her shop, but I didn't expect her to find the most jaw dropping vintage cocktail ring I've ever seen.

The Plus 8 Speedster does without such fripperies as a hood or a windscreen - and it's an absolute blast

Burdened with establishing a superhero whose distinguishing characteristics are dignity and his royal duties to his people (whatever his problems, Hulk never had to send a balanced - budget bill to congress) and world - building an entire African civilization, Black Panther can't spend much time on fripperies.

There are few fripperies here: no Wi - Fi or Bluetooth, not even Apple AirPlay, the high - res support doesn't include DSD and the AVR850 is «only» a seven - channel design, which translates to a 5.1.2 Dolby Atmos layout.

It might have fared even better without its primary - coloured fripperies but Boom Street remains good enough to turn a blind eye to its rather untimely celebration of capitalism.

Pulled focus, overhead shots, macro lensing all nicely externalizing Mike's inner struggle, making the visuals commentary rather than mere visual frippery.

From the Fast & Furious Frivolous Fripperies desk comes news that Rocket League is yet again partnering with Universal as well as a pair of car manufacturers for second round of Fast & Furious DLC for the jet - assisted remote control car / football hybrid.

From the Fast & Furious Frivolous Fripperies desk comes news that Rocket League is yet again partnering with Universal as well as a pair of car...

Leona Edmiston dresses on sale, some pointy heels (also on sale) and other fripperies (again, on sale) that shall remain private.

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That means principles are no longer fripperies that only organic granola or natural shampoo companies bother with.

«Now we all see — religion is just synthetic frippery.

WE FANS HAVE TO LOOK AFTER THE MAIN CHANCE, NOT MERE TEMPORARY FRIPPERIES.

and a lot of grumbling about job security and the risks of matching muscles with the weaker sex, male jockeys gradually acquiesced to such promotional frippery as the «Jack»n Jill Handicap.»

All the males» fripperies become more pronounced with age.

You see, I could also claim this look as some cliché attire worn to annual music festivals but I think I've got too much fringe and shimmer but less Isabel Marant bohemian frippery going on to actually fit the formulaic «Coachella» look.

Clockwise from top right: Lele Sadoughi Emma McKinstry c / o Golden Thread c / o Suzanne Kalan c / o Wendy Mink c / o eBay (similar on Bauble Bar) Tory Burch (similar) Gerard Yosca c / o vintage via Frippery Vintage

Tommy's wardrobe, for one, suggests a commitment to the 1980s and a familiarity with the defunct catalog International Male, a source for padded briefs and Jack Sparrow frippery.

Those, meanwhile, who couldn't give a fig whether the ambitions of a bygone era of journalism are sacrificed on the altar of daytime TV frippery will nonetheless surely warm to the sight of McAdams plotting frantically while wearing little more than knickers.

November 11, 2014 • From a spoof of Kanye West's «Bound 2» (called «Hardcover Bound 2») to click - bait classic novel titles, millennials are proving that smart content and Internet frippery aren't mutually exclusive.

Suffice to say that Polley's parents led complicated lives, and though she embellishes them with too much extraneous frippery, she ultimately does get what matters, concerning how people naturally grow and change — sometimes together, sometimes apart.

It's a messy casserole of Avengers promotion and crossover frippery, shoehorning in unnecessary supporting characters and dual archvillains, devolving its hero to the shallow dickweed he was at the start of the first movie just to generate some character conflict, throwing in a little slapstick martial arts so its director can have an onscreen star moment alongside a sexy A-lister...

Ibiza is a fun, far - fetched frippery but I'd rather see what happened to them if they'd stayed at home.

After the meta - upon - meta frippery of Seven Psychopaths, he's regained the needling, morally burdened wit of In Bruges.

The 6 - series GT could also be viewed as a cut - price 7 - series if the more expensive car's additional fripperies aren't important and it's worth noting that the GT has the same amount of rear legroom and a bigger boot — and in 630d M Sport guise is a whopping # 14k cheaper than a 730d M Sport.

And when you slip behind the wheel, you will likewise find no superfluous distractions — no pop - up vents, no trip computers, no navigational frippery, no lumbar balloons to inflate — unless you are distracted by the MX - 5 Miata's strange horizontally folding sun visors.

It's all very «Concepty», but if you strip away the concept frippery you're looking at a car that is most of the way to the next generation Nissan Murano.

It's not all design frippery, either.

The One comes with 15 - inch wheels as standard but you can upgrade to alloys up to 18 inches, while fripperies like contrasting roof colours, mirror caps and various vinyl stripes and patterns can all be specified.

A new Toyota Supra is something Toyota were planning before the world's economy jumped off a cliff in 2008, but with the world running out of money — and fripperies -LSB-...]

Firmed - up STI suspension settings — and a few bodywork and trim fripperies — take it no further than the half - way mark.

And I'm a weirdo, so my personal C43 carries some extra frippery that I feel enhances the experience.

And the sixth - generation Polo is even better, stronger, bigger and safer, with more driver assistance systems and more digital frippery.

I'm not a fool, and these days I certainly can't afford to be parted from my money by investing in self - published novels and author co-ops and similar fripperies.

Whilst the range of character stats and actions is a little larger, it is once again the seemingly unnecessary frippery which helps Crusader Kings II take that leap ahead.

A swooshy camera, lots of minor graphical frippery, a few frivolous details — all unnecessary fanciness with little relation to gameplay... all vital to making Crusader Kings II feel alive.

As they tell the main story, they increasingly retreat into tedious instances of someone getting kidnapped, Batman having to outwit 10 armed guards in a stealth sequence, and then the Batmobile having to blow up 20 tanks to secure something or other, and then some closed off instance of some gimmicky frippery usually accompanied by a gratuitous difficulty spike.

There's no story or fancy killstreaks or other videogame frippery — just gorgeous terrain, the rising bodycount, the dwindling space and the ticking clock — and yet I don't think I've ever played a game so sickeningly tense.

In 1985 «Private Gone Public» was reviewed in The New York Times, «Another show of work by six «gut issue» artists — all women — assembled by the art critic Ellen Lubell... (Bonnie) Lucas makes clever assemblages of baby clothes and female fripperies — laces, ribbons, glitter, fake jewelry, etc. — in not - so - demure compositions that put down accepted female roles.»

Minor though the tree might seem, both institutionally (it's generally seen as a bit of seasonal frippery on the part of the Tate) and artistically (it's often an opportunity for artists to do a bit of festive self - mockery), there's something here of a piece with the choice of Richard Wright as this year's Turner Prize winner: a shift of institutional focus, maybe.

They weren't quite the thing at Sprog 1's gross birthday party, but fortunately Sprog 2 digs frippery the way Sprog 1 (literally) digs worms.

I've spent the kids» education money on bits of Elle Macpherson frippery that sits in the drawer gathering dust.

Snowy Evening at Frippery Farmhouse = -.

I decreed there would be none of the traditional frippery — no frothy wedding dress, no wedding cake, no wedding cars, no bridesmaids, no sit - down meal, no wedding video.