The demand for fripperies, from $ 165 sunglasses to $ 24, 000 sable scarves, seems to surprise even their makers.
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There is, she concedes, a lag time in perception because many people continue to equate seriousness with suits and frivolousness with frippery.
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The New Russian Choral School, as Morosan calls it, largely reacted against the musical ornateness and frippery that had grown up with Westernization.
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Streep, who looks luscious in Crowley's turn-of-the-century frippery, cannily brings out the strategist in Arkadina.
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If Estrada's presidency was a flop, his trial since his arrest in April has been tangled in legal frippery and personal feuds.
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They all cater to the same centuries-old hankering for frippery and finery that spawned the Victorian craze for collecting strings of beautiful buttons.
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The film is able both to satirize and enjoy such myopia, just as it savors the absurd frippery of its characters'costumes and indulgences.
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Although some doghouses are few-frills models, decorated with mosaics, paint, flowers and other frippery, others look like mini stage sets.
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But at what point in that process does an individual congregation become so concerned with frippery that the worship at the heart of its existence gets lost?
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While her husband languished in the Bastille, Pelagie lived hand-to-mouth just to keep him in cutting-edge frippery and rich desserts.