niaiseries

Les sites textuels ne requièrent pas une charte graphique sophistiquée à base de Java et autres niaiseries (le summum a été atteint cette année par le site officiel du Printemps des poètes).

Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

Would the first Review of the world have printed the niaiseries of Mr. Maurice Sand as a picture of society in any civilized country?

On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners 1914

Toutes les choses de l'esprit, sauf les plus grandes, deviennent niaiseries tôt ou tard.

The Lake 1892

When he was gone she stood awhile, thoughtfully peeling the last bud; and then, awakening from her reverie, flung it and all the crowd of floral nobility impatiently on the ground, in an ebullition of displeasure with herself for her niaiseries, and with a quickening warmth in her heart of hearts.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

Vostre maintien soit d'homme moderement graue, pose, & attentif a ce qui se dit, afin de n'auoir pas a dire a tout propos: Comment ditez-vous? comment se passe cela? je ne vous ay pas entendu, & d'autres semblables niaiseries.

George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

Rouchfoucald tells us "few are so wise as to prefer the censure which would be useful to them to the flattery which betrays them," and if I should not receive for the enumeration of your niaiseries, with which I shall herein furnish

A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling. 1862

Doubtless there are slight niaiseries, after the manner of both those poets, in the first editions of his earlier poems.

Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847