Sentence examples for Trivial death from inspiring English sources

Mr. Strassberger's permutations mostly work, save for the almost trivial death of a housemaid in the second act, which spoils notions of justice served, as described by the pontificating deities Apollo (Mr. Borisenko) and Athena (Ms. Litke) in the third.

The sequence of events - arrest for a trivial offence, death in custody, a less than convincing explanation - is depressingly familiar all over the world.

Draco's code was later regarded as intolerably harsh, punishing trivial crimes with death; it was probably unsatisfactory to contemporaries, since Solon, who was the archon in 594 bc, later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.

In war, everything apart from life and death is trivial.

"It is such a masterpiece of felicitous opportunity that all casualties of life or death appear trivial in connection with it".

But trivial distinctions are commonplace in death penalty cases.

To take something trivial and worry it to death, especially while wearing a sweater".

If we no longer allocate much time to pursue the matter of a shooter's motivation, it is because we now know that it may seem trivial against the scale of death.

No moral code, and certainly not the Christian one, condones condemning millions of people to death on such trivial grounds as use of a condom.Iain MartelTorontoDon't mention the warSIR – Your obituary of General Westmoreland repeats the myth that Vietnam was America's first and only defeat (July 30th).

Our interpretation was that the impact of previous functioning impairment (functioning factors) on a medical event (death) might be trivial compared with previous hospital admissions (a medical factor).

These are not trivial, but of life-or-death importance.