Most were inconsequential affairs, but amid a five-game winless streak and Jurgen Klinsmann's recent criticism of players' offseason training mentality, the need for a positive result had been heightened.
This is not an inconsequential matter.
Lacking a sense of purpose or identity, the pre-90s Turner (inaugurated in 1984, with Malcolm Morley winning) was an insular, inconsequential and increasingly directionless affair.
Take the first night, when I suggest wives run along to drawing room after dinner so we men can discuss important affairs and inconsequential flings.
might well be forced to leave office within the next few months--the fact is that our affairs have an inconsequential, weightless feel that is hard to shake off..
However, from a short list, Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes remains Stevenson's masterpiece, a "little book" that describes a wayward, inconsequential journey and a strange love affair (with a donkey) in which, as in all the best journeys, the author finds himself renewed, refreshed and, returning from his travels, once more ready for the fray.
That's exactly what happened on April 2, 2011, when the band played its sold-out final concert there, an affair documented in the lavish and inconsequential documentary "Shut Up and Play the Hits".
It's a lush and lovely affair, an oddball picaresque that manages to be at once determinedly inconsequential and weirdly profound.
The early part of the second half was a similarly stodgy affair, with another missed Humphreys penalty coming at the end of a spell of largely inconsequential attacks from both sides.
Restaurant gumbos are often drab affairs, lacking the spark of liveliness necessary to galvanize the dish into something more that an inconsequential soupy stew.
But they seem inconsequential.
