Sentences with word «frivolousness»

There is the nostalgic prologue which, celebrating the Class of 1870 during speech day at Harvard, embraces music and dance and establishes the moral frivolousness of Jim's friend Billy Irvine (John Hurt, pictured below), who will fetch up in Wyoming as a Fordian drunk spouting literary quotes.

But Koba is still a pretty brave book, one that could, perhaps, reveal to a certain segment of the Western intelligentsia its own moral frivolousness and willed blindness.

3 Nov. 29, 2017)(published), the Second District, Division 3 DCA decided that a supervising employee FEHA defendant had to meet the same frivolousness standard as applicable to employer defendant with respect to recovering fees from an unsuccessful plaintiff.

Like Gleeson and Byrne, Gluck seems to recognize his film's inherent frivolousness, frequently calling attention to some of the screenplay's plot mechanics and hacky tropes — at one point even hanging a lampshade on Peter's famous blue jacket, in acknowledgement of the object's trite value as an emotional symbold.

Woody's latest philosophical exercise strikes a balance between the darkness of Cassandra's Dream and the jazzy frivolousness of just about every film he's made since.

Although the regional circuits had developed analyses that typically applied the non-exclusive factors outlined in Fogerty v. Fantasy, 510 U.S. 517 (1994), including frivolousness, motivation, objective unreasonableness, and compensation and deterrence, the courts weighed those factors differently, resulting in different fee - award outcomes.

Attorney costs are paid in frivolous cases, and this case didn't rise to the high standard for frivolousness, the court said.

Of course there's a platforming element to any game that involves this much high - altitude movement, but the punk - rock attitude, bright colors, and frivolousness of Sunset Overdrive felt to me at odds with the difficulty in some of the boss fights.

Such «frivolousness» on the part of manufacturers is condemned by the club, which hopes to establish uniform standards.

Frivolousness is not a substitute for offering a perspective — rather it is a perspective in and of itself; 3.

Overshooting with money and frivolousness, Marlo's more successful and entirely douche - y brother Craig (Mark Duplass, perfectly cast) and his privileged granola trophy wife Elyse (Elaine Tan of Inherent Vice) offer, as a baby gift, to pay for a night nanny service to help out his sister with the new baby and the housework.

That came hours later, in the form of an electronic query during a Sunday midday conversation held at the museum: «Why does contemporary art choose to privilege kitsch, frivolousness, and the banal during a time that demands profound answers with respect to interiority, spirituality, and poesis?»

Often described as «interrogative art», their work examines the relationship between art and society, form and function, practicality and frivolousness.

Nail polish is the stuff of fashion, decoration, frivolousness.

As the Lower East Side gallerist Michele Maccarone put it recently in an interview: «The Chelseafication of the art world has created a consensus of mediocrity and frivolousness.»