Sentence examples for a bagatelle from inspiring English sources

"It's a bagatelle," Weld confirms.

"What we go through is kind of a bagatelle by contrast".

In contrast, the match between Wales and England at Euro 2016 was a bagatelle.

But compared with Meier's Olympian Getty Center, the courthouse is a bagatelle.

I try to do a tiny little reform to the pension system, really very small, a bagatelle and … paf!

Soon as she's gone, Bea and I shoot round our whitewashed stone abode like marbles on a bagatelle board.

So of course the market's dead cat bounce is a mere bagatelle, an island in the midst of troubled waters that is itself sinking into the Sargasso Sea of despond.

It's slim, chic and humorless, that is, a sophisticated bagatelle of a volume, filled with detours to exotic locales: the Sahara, Goa in India, the Greek island of Hydra.

(Compare the Clark lectures with "Analysis Terminable and Interminable," of 1937 — Freud's last, dark, dense, profound paper. It is like comparing a Beethoven bagatelle with a late quartet).

Of course, a million is a mere bagatelle in the shadow of the $544 million that was spent on lobbying by the health sector last year, plus more than $200 million in advocacy ads.

By comparison, the Fifth Piano Symphony (1972-73), which the American pianist Donna Amato will perform on Thursday, also at Merkin, is a mere bagatelle, running two and a half hours.