Sentence examples for Trivial man from inspiring English sources

Whatever else Brown might be, he was not a trivial man, or a worldly one: he was not a merchant with a Sunday cause.

His upbraiding of Brand comes after Jeremy Paxman accused the comedian of being a "trivial man" in a fierce exchange on Newsnight last week.

A few weeks later, he was grilled on Newsnight by Jeremy Paxman: who was he to advocate revolution, a here-today, gone-tomorrow comedian, an apathetic whinger who couldn't even be arsed to exercise his democratic right, a "very trivial man" who believed in nothing?

The changes introduced start with the seemingly trivial (men forced to wear socks), and even afford some comic moments: boys banned from playing football instead play matches with an imaginary ball.

Who said that? "I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men.

I'm not at all surprised by the energetic spin of Smulders's performance; I noticed her aptitude for subtle comedy in the otherwise trivial "Delivery Man".

His disgrace at Naples was redeemed two years later at the battle of Copenhagen, not just by the famous naval victory, but by a masterly diplomatic settlement immediately afterwards.Mr Knight describes well how Nelson was, in the words of a contemporary, "in some respects, as trivial a man as ever made a name".

Eileen Chang's interest is personal not political and her focus on "trivial things between men and women", at a time when her contemporaries were more interested in fiction for ideological ends, earned her scorn though a large readership.

There were trivial differences between men and women in age (p = 0.07), training history (p = 0.23), and personal bests at racing distances between 1 mile and 10 km as represented by IAAF scores [37] (p = 0.82).

While it acknowledges there are people who cheat the system, others have been punished because they did not understand the rules, or for trivial reasons – including one man sanctioned for writing on the wrong side of a form.

It is trivial because the straw man that Theobald attacks in a text largely formulated in convoluted legalese, is that significant sequence similarity might arise by chance as opposed to descent with modification.