Sentence examples for a trifle too from inspiring English sources
Full of vitality, but a trifle too vulgar?
It's a trifle too lab coat and not enough apron.
SIR This was an interesting article, but I believe it has come a trifle too late.
Phillips Union Whiskey might be just a trifle too easy to drink.
Initially I wasn't sure: Joseph Millson's delivery seemed a trifle too soft, too mannered and actory.
Was it, perhaps, a trifle too pat — neat to a fault in its wrapping up of a perfect emotional package?
But I was a trifle disturbed, too, by the intrusion on a tranquil — and, it suddenly proved, defenseless — reality of weathered houses amid humpback mountains.
Here, you might say, "No, that is a trifle you are reading too much into".
For one thing, it too seems a trifle scrubbed clean, sanitized and austere.
The trouble is that our Elders are a trifle gullible; they have swallowed too much of Mr. Scott Fitzgerald and Miss Gertrude Atherton.
Of The Eolian Harp as a model for poetry, Coleridge wrote, "Let me be excused, if it should seem to others too mere a trifle to justify my noticing it but I have some claim to the thanks of no small number of the readers of poetry in having first introduced this species of short blank verse poems of which Southey, Lamb, Wordsworth, and others have since produced so many exquisite specimens".
