He aims his gentle ridicule at social affectations and Frivolities; and sometimes, though avoiding ponderous satire, at the grosser forms of vice.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
She had only needed a word to turn her from the Frivolities of the world to better things.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit
He was an old bachelor and was said to greatly despise the Frivolities of Russian society women.
"The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army"
Margaret Vandercook