fol-de-rol

• I have a reluctant but intense affection for neoclassicism at its most oppressive - in London, the grace and fol-de-rol of the Palladian seems distinctly less interesting than the mathematical bombast of the British Museum, or the ruthless bureaucratic horror of the Ministry of Defence. —  sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy
• But to me, the crystalization that all this fol-de-rol is just that came when I happened on a thread posted by a guy who had written about a management shake up at a web company and who bragged that he got 27,000 page views. —  Inman News - The first word in real estate.
• Ours is a culture in which "donating your status" qualifies as Facebook activism, and probably keeps company with gifts, pokes, in-jokes and all manner of first-world fol-de-rol. —  Jezebel
• Rangel's response to all the legal fol-de-rol will be defense by Delays and Means. —  American Thinker
• They had some fol-de-rol about ACORN but despite the careful analysis of how irrelevant ACORN was to anything malign that's happened in finance, everybody has seen all the idiot gringo youtube we've been putting up. —  Editorials from Hell's leading daily newspaper

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