Sentence examples for less trivial from inspiring English sources

And some of the regulations are less trivial than they sound.

The media become more rather than less trivial, sensational, inaccurate and irresponsible.

One example of this, less trivial than it seems, is Waugh's popularisation among publishers of the cricketer's diary.

He wondered whether it was more likely that Continental philosophers would become more lucid or analytic philosophers less trivial.

The steel struts that help to hold up skyscrapers and bridges are slightly less trivial examples of thin rods whose tendency to break needs to be understood.

Shinseki eventually agreed to let the Rangers switch to tan berets, but the episode damaged him and weakened support within the Officer Corps for his less trivial reform notions.

The new stage in my life requires me to change the order: now Saint Karl comes first; he is the axis and will remain so for however many years the spheroid has room for me on its outer mantle; medicine is a more or less trivial diversion.

In the second half of the 17th century, the empiricist views of Locke were similarly controverted by Leibniz, who examined Locke's views in minute detail in Nouveaux essais sur l'entendement humain (1704, published 1765; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding), arguing that ideas can be virtually innate in a less trivial sense than Locke allowed.

To detect closest shops is less trivial.

Among the complaints were some that made mine seem more -- and less -- trivial.

To top off all this confusion, many cost over $400, making the decision less than trivial.