For him, their frivolity robbed the world of an era of peace, made possible by Mr Nixon's flawed strategic genius and Mr Kissinger's brilliant diplomacy.
There was a return to ornamentation—and there was a frivolity—something over and above the brutal structural form of the old modernist designs.
"Wilde was a man of great, intense feelings, who behind the lightness of his writing, behind a mask of frivolity or cynicism, hid a deep knowledge of the mysterious value of life," he said.
Where the appointments of luxury are in profusion, and frivolity tarnishes both day and night, this love is degraded, and woman's nature finds not the joy of its perfection.
