How to Use folderol in a Sentence

folderol

noun
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  • I wish we could just discuss these questions without having to go through all the folderol of a formal meeting.
  • Kelley seems a little too wised-up for this folderol, and Peter seemed to be urging her to rise to the occasion a bit more.
    — oregonlive, 5 Feb. 2020
  • There’s no folderol, just the facts lined up as if in composition class, the fish cooked slowly in a low oven so that the fat eases out of the flesh to combine with the tart brightness of the lemon juice.
    — Sam Sifton, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • Such folderol culminates in a terrible crime, which doesn’t shock so much as perplex.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • As this folderol was brewing, Matt started the rose ceremony.
    — oregonlive, 12 Jan. 2021
  • As for the delta smelt, the assertion that water is being diverted away from the Central Valley simply to preserve the species is the rankest folderol.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2019
  • There is, yes, too much ink spilled over the real jewels in it, the craftsmen who created it and so on, but without all that folderol she wouldn’t have gotten to its library.
    — Carolyn Kellogg, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
  • For all the folderol of who descended from whom and how many titles trail one's name, the noblest and the basest Thrones characters cannot be categorized by dynastic heritage.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2017
  • But even without the virus crisis, Philip would have sought to downplay public folderol about his birthday, in keeping with his non-nonsense personality.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 11 June 2020
  • Soulier ties together all those odd arm and torso twists, the karate kicks, rolls and the rest of the brutal folderol through meticulous repetition, directional shifts and gestural phrases passed from one dancer to the next.
    — Laura Bleiberg, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Director Hong Chang-pyo juggles a myriad of concepts, characters and dynamics, plus bits of flashbacks, action and folderol.
    — Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Her face is part of the dance: The open-hearted eagerness of her expression suits her character perfectly—all that digital-fur-technology folderol melts away in the context of her realness.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
  • But then there’s some folderol with magic puppets — in comic books, puppets are always magic, so never take your eyes off the little buggers — resulting in Wanda getting possessed by an ancient Elder God named Chthon.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2021
  • Country is often perceived as standing apart from pop music, or in opposition to pop folderol, but country music is pop music: there’s virtually no period in country history when its songs and sounds haven’t been crossed over in one way or another.
    — David Cantwell, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2019

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