Sentence examples for as trifling from inspiring English sources

Tuesday night, Obama did a speed-dating circuit with television anchors at the White House, and repeatedly dismissed Republican objections to the stimulus bill as trifling.

Nearly every critic and music-industry professional I know routinely decries the Grammys as trifling, an arbiter of nothing: they are too white, too docile, too choked by genre, too long, too loyal to outmoded tropes.

As a young woman, Aurora is supposed to have been a technical adviser on an imaginary Hollywood movie called It Will Never Snow Again Over Kilimanjaro, but rejects cinema as trifling.

Locke himself acknowledged an innate power of "reflection" (awareness of one's own ideas, sensations, emotions, and so on) as a means of exploiting the materials given by experience as well as a limited realm of a priori (nonexperiential) knowledge, which he nevertheless regarded as "trifling" and essentially empy of content (e.g., "soul is soul" and "every man is an animal").

Despite all the changes, the new librettos remained as trifling as those of operetta and as loosely bound as a revue's.

The stresses can be as trifling as having to worry when getting up at night to use the toilet, which Mr. Wilson said he fretted about all the time because the elder Maggis' bedroom is next to the bathroom.

This career shift within the medical community might strike those on the patient side as arcane and trifling.

Prunes and custard are served up, as well as trifle and bread-and-butter pudding.

The only restriction we've ever managed was with Mr Pratt, in an incident now known as Trifle Fire.

Also called crème anglais, boiled custard may be used as a sauce with fruits and pastries or incorporated into desserts such as trifle or rice pudding.

In the preface, Poe referred to them as "trifles" which had been altered without his permission as they made "the rounds of the press".