Sentences with phrase «on frivolities»

It's much to easy and «normal» for college students to blow money on frivolities.

If you've never had a budget before, you might be realizing that you spend more than you realize on frivolities or expenses you can minimize.

Plenty of people aren't married — hey, at least you've been invited to drink free booze, dance to ABBA, and capitalise on the frivolities!

He may be the newly named sixth - richest man on the planet, but Mark Zuckerberg doesn't seem to be spending any of his $ 47 billion on frivolities.

For now, Hassan is waisting his time and resources on frivolities using police to arras and intimidate Akinola.

If anything, when we put more (as a %, not in absolute terms) away in long - term investing, we spend less on frivolities, not more.

While moms and dads have to deal with all the stressful stuff like pediatrician appointments, report cards, and getting everybody out the door on time in the morning, grandparents get to focus on frivolity (mostly...

The nesting - doll structure may seem frivolous, but Wes Anderson's films thrive on frivolity.

I can benefit from this long term driver by demanding a relatively high dividend yield and reinvesting the dividends as well as I can (and not spending them on frivolity).

People demand to know whether their money is spent on frivolity or if it is going towards something appropriate.

Until her dying breath she'll be wielding a BFG made entirely of killer drive and ambition while stamping out stereotypes and passing on the frivolity of console wars.

If you're feeling provocative, slip into the strappy Gauntlet tank with look - but - don «t - touch cut - outs, then pair it with ragamuffin bloomers or dressy slacks, depending on where you measure on the frivolity meter that day.

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Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.

But patents aren't frivolities to be discarded on an idealistic whim.

Regardless of which side of the field you found yourself on, you more than likely took in too much food, brews and frivolity and are in need of a serious detox.

He goes on to point out that the history of cuisine had been viewed as part of the history of fashion, «hence of frivolity.»

The hopes and dreams of entire cities rise and fall upon this frivolity, not just on Saturday and Sunday afternoons and not just in those cities but all day, every day, inside, outside, online, offline, everywhere.

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-LSB-...] as you know, it was a day of frivolity on TLT, and maybe that's why I squelched a niggling thought I had about that study.

Seeing this list made me longingly recall the old days on TLT, back when I was posting five days a week and there was a lot more frivolity around here.

Liberal Democrat frontbencher Norman Lamb, who had asked for the list of guests, said: «Many of the names on this list reveal the frivolity and celebrity - obsessed nature of the Blair administration.

«It is a bit frivolous, there is an element of frivolity obviously on knowing where your clothes come from,» she told ITV's Tonight programme.

The new Agba Akin of Osogboland said it behooves on every black - man to see his culture and tradition as sacred that shouldn't be allowed to neither desecrate or fade off by worldly frivolity.

Their resentment began with the A-list — which they felt told them their faces didn't fit — and its effects linger still: they will seize on the Louise Mensch - caused Corby byelection as evidence of the frivolity of a project that prized fashion (in their view) above proven track records.

On the darker side of the races, frivolity aside, I knew that equine horses were often sent to be slaughtered by the racing industry if they did not perform.

Equally the block heel adds some weight to the frivolity — A stilleto heel is way too girlie for me on this occasion.

I was so grateful to my friend Katey for featuring my home tour on her blog, Chronicles of Frivolity, this past week!

I also think that sometimes there's an unfair frivolity put on a love story.

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From a screenwriting perspective, the film spends perhaps a bit too much time on Brooklynn's aimless frivolities.

Juju's high - pitched voice adds a layer of frivolity when you hear him grunt or sing a song while he bangs on his drum.

As always, DVD picks, tangents and other loquacious frivolities await on the Row Three Cinecast.

The sun beams on the boat for frolicking and frivolity, while the scenes of the mainland, just a few miles out, as dark, bitter and stuffy.

As the couple's CG train zips between districts, we see how Snow's stormtroopers buckle down on what little freedom remains, offset by the empty frivolity of life in the capital — a nonstop binge - and - purge banquet where wild hairstyles and lavish costume changes provide distraction from an idle existence.

But when the company is shooting for the middle of the market, where the sheeple graze from brand to brand based on price, fuel economy, or the latest quality scores, it's going to hurt that Volkswagen can't lay claim to any of that frivolity.

Capable of 40 - plus mpg sipping my crude distillate of choice, the Passat also offered such frivolities as cruise control, satellite radio, working A / C and multiple airbags on guard against texting Escalade pilots.

While the sportiest crossovers on the market can actually encourage spirited driving, the Outlander tends to simply tolerate such frivolity.

But I've got a lot of other things still on my plate too; two years worth of pleasure reading to catch up on, all sorts of games that are waiting to be played, and (lest you think there's nothing but frivolity ahead) plans to work my way through the LIS 7440 Scripting Languages for Library Applications syllabus. We'll see how far I can get through that last one, but it would be good to learn PHP if nothing else.

Customer service and quality control costs money, and we ain't spending money on such frivolity.»

It's on again the Palm Cove Reef Feast Festival a weekend of fantastic food, wine, beer, fun and frivolity combining lots of family events and some adult only entertainment.

Yet this is not an exclusive element; there is a long line of artists, including Gianni Ruffi, Roberto Barni, Silvio Pasotti, Umberto Bignardi, and Claudio Cintoli, who take on reality as a toy, as a great pool of imagery from which to draw material with disenchantment and frivolity, questioning the traditional linguistic role models with a renewed spirit of «let me have fun» à la Aldo Palazzeschi.

In Your Dreams invited the viewer to reflect on the human being's diverse relationship to sex and sexuality through art that references the romance, hilarity, kink, frivolity, roughness and tenderness associated with the thought, fantasy or act of sex.This exhibition at the Spring / Break Art Show — Spring 2015 included artists Zoë Buckman, Louise Bourgeois, E.V. Day, Tracey Emin, Walter Robinson, and Tom Wesselmann, among others.

But, of course, Carter kept right on publishing his sleek, ad - filled nucleus of frivolity and irony kept thriving.

New York designer Gabriel Scott has created a version of his Myriad light based on the signature drink served at Bar Basso, the hub for late - night frivolity during Milan design week.

It might sound ridiculous to participate in the same social media trends that your kids are part of, but an occasional bit of frivolity can go a long way on social media — if it's done properly.

However, you also zero in on the hoped - for theortical aspect of the problem only, whereas many of us zero in on the intial problem, being CREA's underhanded, unethical, theoretical experiments with our service industry, all the while unilaterally levying now - yearly dues payments increases to fund its frivolity.