I've always liked the old Spanish proverb: 'Living well is the best revenge.' " Gerald's Celtic good looks; his beautiful clothes, which would have seemed a trifle too elegant if anyone else had worn them; his perfectionist attention to subtle gradations of feeling — these sometimes acted as a barrier to intimacy, so much so that Fitzgerald once accused him of "keeping people away with charm".
Suddenly, Marsh, who had been dawdling along at a pace father Geoff might have thought a trifle ponderous, was ignited, hitting three sixes.
A Study of Music in Decline, may have been a trifle premature when it was published in 1934, (yes, 1934) but I wonder what he would have said about the eructations that all too frequently emerge when I switch on my radio.
He sent a short waltz he had written, a trifle that could have been taken for a beer hall dance, to popular composers living in Austria, inviting each to a write a variation on it.
He may occasionally have been a trifle misunderstood, as White argues, but never catastrophically so.
(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).
(The name may have been a trifle CNN-like, but the content — energetic, well organized, spare-no-expense comprehensive — was pure Times at its best).
Shareholders may also have been a trifle surprised to read that "the bank is not involved for its own economic benefit".These unusual sentiments, and Mr Breuer's uncertain personal performance on the issue, dented his credibility as well as his bank's.
Studio executives said that it might be too early to tell whether the weekend's box-office resurgence indicates that they have been a trifle overtimid in pulling from distribution in coming weeks a roster of films that were deemed too intense or too violent to fit the current national mood.
