Sentence examples for a trifling incident from inspiring English sources

It is a superb fictionalisation of the Archer-Shee case, in which a banker's family and their barrister sacrifice health, finances, prospects and romantic arrangements over a trifling incident but in principled defiance of "the monstrous assumption that the king can do no wrong".

Former Army Chief of Staff Charles P. Summerall wrote to Patton that he was "indignant about the publicity given a trifling incident", adding that "whatever [Patton] did" he was sure it was "justified by the provocation.

Rob, the woman's partner, "wore big pewter biker rings on every finger" and after one trifling incident early in their marriage "started smashing [her] in the face with his knuckles.

The memories return like snapshots: of vacations in Normandy and Belle-Île (France draws them back even after they return to the States), of a childbirth in a snowstorm, of apparently trifling incidents that resonate in retrospect.

Lelio puts Gloria at the center of each scene and gives her moments alone when trifling incidents and even the quiet passing of time feel like an interrogation of her life.

This is not a trifling achievement.

That isn't a trifling number.

This is by no means a trifling or frequent gift.

A pancreatic cyst-even a pseudocyst-is not a trifling affliction.

Don't think that this is a trifling matter.

Cooking oil may seem a trifling expense in the West.