Sentence examples for all a trifle from inspiring English sources

But it is all a trifle arbitrary.

That seems fitting enough, but we also get panel discussions in TV studios, video feeds, and a genuine British news anchor declaiming iambic pentameters as if from an autocue — all a trifle forced, as if Fiennes were concerned that we might be embarrassed, or bored, by the spectacle of the bare play.

All a trifle bemusing when it is remembered that the newly elected Tony Blair and his entourage were trailing the joys of the English system of trial by jury on a formal visit to China, even re-enacting a mock trial for one of those minor hybrid offences.

Anyone who sat inside the installation would be obtuse indeed if they did not feel the transformative effect of their participation, even if from outside it might all appear a trifle austere.

Only three of the pieces in "Collected Stories" -- "By the St. Lawrence" (the Esquire newcomer), "Looking for Mr. Green" and "Something to Remember Me By" -- seem obligated at all to what is seen, a trifle inaccurately, as the Poe/Maupassant/Chekhov tradition: a briskly circumscribed series of events culminating in a summarizing mood or impression.

At first, he looked just a trifle embarrassed by all the fuss.

This display makes Hals seem all the more singular, even while feeling a trifle superfluous.

Instead, all this success and celebration can grow a trifle wearing.

I'll say it again: deep down, we are all the same," he has said, or, a trifle less elaborately, "Take care of yourself, and each other".

We all really liked the Krug, while my Rueda was a trifle polarizing.

Mankiewicz could hardly improve on the most famous of all Hearst stories, so he merely touched it up a trifle.