"Human lives are brief and trivial.
Many firms The Economist included automatically append these sorts of disclaimers to every message sent from their e-mail servers, no matter how brief and trivial the message itself might be.E-mail disclaimers are one of the minor nuisances of modern office life, along with fire drills, annual appraisals and colleagues who keep sneezing loudly.
A spokesman for the council told me he thought that the business issues cited in the briefs were "trivial" and that companies signing the briefs were "motivated by political correctness, pure and simple".
During the war, the Nazis approached the Vatican with similar arguments, so Gebhardt's brief is no trivial matter.
However, demonstrating high reliability over such brief intervals is relatively trivial.
Genome sequencing has become trivial at a technical level, as evidenced by the steady accumulation of brief announcements in the literature, however the currency of in-depth molecular profiling provides an opportunity to improve, confirm and contextualize genome sequence data.
More than 1,000 pages is a lot of letters, and many of these certainly do qualify, as Mr. Holland says, as trivial -- invitations accepted, invitations declined, thank-you notes for books received and countless brief, businesslike notes.
In order for this brief, targeted intervention to be worth implementing in a service context, it must yield more than trivial effects.
In brief, this Congress has wasted its authority and squandered our nation's trust once again by playing Trivial Pursuit while the world turns and burns.
In brief, we first selected from OBO a set of non-redundant anatomy-domain resources with non-trivial is-a structure, giving a set of 26 ontologies (see Supplementary Material).
