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Перевод: frivolity

[существительное]
легкомыслие; легкомысленный поступок; пустота ; фривольность

Тезаурус:

1. A taunting display of leisure time frivolity right in the face of a working man's day.
2. The case against Charles seemed a reasonably strong one but it was the charge of frivolity that chiefly told with the Colonel who showed a marked distaste for Charles's habit of eccentric behaviour followed by unlikely explanation.
3. When inspired by Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony to create Les Frsages (1933), Massine took a theme which proposed that Man would win his struggle against fate if he had Action, Love and Frivolity on his side.
4. Two car bombs in Karachi kill 72 and injure 250; the authorities blame "saboteurs of foreign origin" (in the presence of such disasters, it takes a certain frivolity to care whether those who perpetrated the act were natives or not).
5. Frivolity is a better marketing strategy for the bottled-water industry than actually telling consumers about its products.
6. By contrast Wilde and his art are described as "false", "cheap", "shallow and specious", "nerveless and effeminate", marked by an "unreality" and "essential emptiness and frivolity" (pp. 75, 78, 1 33, 1 34).
7. "The quiet but fervent agreement of Griffiths and the quick glance of understanding between those two revealed to me my own frivolity.
8. Be that as it may, I don't think such frivolity helps CAMRA's cause.
9. There was no frivolity, unlike a lot of the early rock music or lyrics.
10. The publicity his ideas have attracted has only deepened the tragedy: the bad influence of those he has himself influenced has added frivolity to the obscurity
11. In their own newsletter, and often in interviews, The Wedding Present seem to adopt the frivolity and amiability of The Monkees.
12. Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied.
13. At the TUC conference, which was intended by its chairman, David Basnett, to be a pre-election rally, the premier displayed some unwonted frivolity, singing an old music-hall song about "There she was, waiting at the church".