Sentence examples for has been trifling from inspiring English sources

An old lover, gunslinger Johnny "Guitar" Logan Sterlingg Hayden) shows up one day on the promise of employment, at the same time as an angry mob of locals led by Emma Small Mercedes McCambridgee), suspecting Vienna of partaking in the illegal activities of her notorious customer Dancin' Kid Scott Bradyy), who has been trifling with Emma's heart.

Fortunately his presidency has been so weak, his hesitations so various and prolonged and his changes of mind so frequent that the White House’s actual impact on the workings of the economy has been trifling.

It was the movie which launched Kate Winslet in the role of Marianne, the young woman with whom Brandon is to fall in love after she has been trifled with by the caddish Willoughby.

Now, this is not the first time the toe has been trifled with.

For some tastes, especially those of the activists who spend their lives fighting Labour in local government, the official posture of "constructive opposition" in Westminster has been a trifle too constructive and a tad short on opposition.

Mr. Genocchio, an art lecturer at Sydney University and a member of the offshore faculty of Boston University, wrote, after a two-hour preview of the paintings, that "the exhibition has been a trifle oversold by a barrage of pre-publicity and breathless claims".

Rather than being the johnny-come-lately that I'd assumed, jelly has been added to trifles by misguided folks since the 18th century, but I'm not alone in my prejudice.

The disappearance of many trifle annoyances has been a welcome bonus.

He may occasionally have been a trifle misunderstood, as White argues, but never catastrophically so.

If Soderling's reaction had been a trifle slower, Federer would have had a two-set-to-one lead.

(In this case, at least, Mr. Cabot's preservationist zeal may have been a trifle premature: Mrs. Bancroft, now 103, still lives on the property).