When challenged later, Mr. Said, who had been on a trip with his family at the time, dismissed the action as trivial, "a symbolic gesture of joy" that Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon had ended.
It might be argued that as long as billions of animals are confined in factory farms to produce meat, eggs and milk, the use of a few dolphins in military action is trivial.
Dr. Said, who was traveling with his family at the time, dismissed the action as trivial, calling it a "symbolic gesture of joy" that Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon had ended.
It's an idea that has preoccupied me ever since I was a medical student and on the stage I'm preoccupied by those negligible details of action – the trivial details of what people are doing when they're saying something are often left out in theatre.
It's someone who is gone, impossibly remote, beyond our understanding — and yet doing something that we've all done, or surely would have done in his place: an action so trivial it leaps over all the fences of ideology and geology and time within which we like to define ourselves.
Then in early April the Bush administration filed two more complaints: one on Chinese pirating of DVDs and CDs, and the other over restrictions on the sale of foreign films and music in China.Although by themselves these actions are trivial, together they point to an increasing appetite for tougher action against China.
And here's the thing: I don't think it's just me, the actions sound trivial compared with the problem.
One objection asserts as obvious that certain human actions are trivial or purposeless (ʿabath); the example given is playing with one's beard (Avicenna MH: 220 225).
The pace slows down, the action becomes almost trivial — until the unit is called to the front.
"A Place of Greater Safety" involved herculean characters altering the course of history: young, fierce, brutal, and witty — everything was big, everything was important, the most trivial action took on heroic significance.
Even open, it sees scarcely more action: the most trivial cases can take years to be resolved in Nepalese courts, which are plagued by incompetence and corruption.After a decade-long struggle, the Maoists control much of Nepal's countryside.
