The phrase "inconsequential talk" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe conversations or speech that are not important or meaningful. For example, "We spent most of the evening in idle chitchat, having mostly inconsequential talk."
The agenda was inconsequential and the talk was dominated by the Middle East.
Some of this behavior teeters on the edge of the acceptable, but Smiley has put herself on the edge of acceptable novel writing, replacing plot and suspense with something freer and more lifelike — casual talk, generally inconsequential but creating a lattice of cross-purpose in which emotions and attractions extend their tendrils.
Some of this behavior teeters on the edge of the acceptable, but Smiley has put herself on the edge of acceptable novel writing, replacing plot and suspense with something freer and more lifelike casual talk, generally inconsequential but creating a lattice of cross-purpose in which emotions and attractions extend their tendrils.
He has also enjoyed the outspoken, and not inconsequential, approval of conservative talk-radio hosts.
He talked about the inconsequential: jokes about dogs, beds and sandwiches allowed an audience to escape back to a more innocent time before they worried about things like relationships, politics and all the other well-trodden "adult" topics ubiquitous on the comedy circuit during Hedberg's premiership.
But at the same time, it strikes me as exactly the kind of meaningless and inconsequential thing that Malcolm Gladwell was talking about when he pooh-poohed the role of social media in political change.
Incited by talking points and inconsequential wedge issues, most voters attention is diverted from the 'real' issues facing this nation.
Without you, it would be only a medium talking to itself, ephemeral and inconsequential.
So much of the talk we hear would seem to be inconsequential, except that Mr. Nelson knows that in such circumstances nothing said is inconsequential.
Let's take the blandest, most inconsequential, boilerplate thing a president can do--talk to school kids--and then try to figure out how doing this could become the subject of fevered controversy.
