Sentence examples for essentially trivial from inspiring English sources

One cannot be sincere and at the same time dishonest about something not essentially trivial.

That's a large expansion in coverage at an essentially trivial cost.

Golfing types tend to tie themselves in knots about such essentially trivial incidents but Mickelson's move was tactically intriguing.

Participating in this call and response is a kind of critique, a way to show up the media by allowing their oversize responses to essentially trivial actions to reveal the emptiness of their raison d'être..

But for all his years he is caught in the paradox that bedevils all professional sport, the contradiction between an endeavour that is essentially trivial, of no consequence to anyone, yet at the same time is of great importance in its own terms.

The prize was "essentially trivial", pontificated AN Wilson in contemptuous mode in the Evening Standard; and, enraged, I wrote to the Guardian letters page to contest Richard Gott's clichés about the decline of the novel and what he called the "tokenism" of the inclusion of Michèle Roberts on the shortlist.

The isolation of a long-lived variant of a laboratory invertebrate is now essentially a trivial project but the information obtained from this approach is proving invaluable.

"Whatever reduces the numbers of foolish young people, who are notorious for making poor lifestyle choices, from destroying their entire lives for what is essentially a trivial crime is a good thing".

"Once it's in the software," Cappelli writes, "each requirement, critical or trivial, essentially becomes something like a hurdle that applicants have to clear to become a qualified candidate".

One is trivial, essentially asserting that a conditional frequency on lags (Reichenbach's term for lags is "phases") of a constant "variable" can always be replaced by a conditional frequency on no lag of that variable.

"Beauty is often treated as an essentially feminine subject, something trivial and frivolous that women are excessively concerned with.