Sentence examples for merely trivial from inspiring English sources

"Kick-Ass" may do homage to this tradition (and it is a tradition as old as art itself), but it's likely to have little effect at all on any sensibilities; it's not even symptomatic, but merely trivial.

What is stressful to some people may be experienced by others as merely trivial, boring, or even amusing.

That's true, but trivial.

This is not merely a trivial point about online voting.

Is the problem merely a trivial variant of the philosophical puzzle of inscrutability of reference?

The participants were disappointed by the responses of other people who stated that fatigue is merely a trivial symptom that everyone experiences normally.

The higher relative mortality of DTP-vaccinated girls compared with DTP-vaccinated boys in these studies is not merely a trivial repetition of the same study design with the same potential biases.

In a column entitled "Europe is now leveraging for a catastrophe," Wolfgang Munchau of the Financial Times, one of the very best commentators on European matters, writes: "(T he chances of a catastrophic accident is bigger than merely non-trivial.

Apologists for Thoreau often claim that he merely distorted some trivial facts in the service of a deeper truth.

Sex is its subject, after all — and the show makes the case, beneath its cinematic lacquer, that it is not something merely exciting or trivial but a deep human necessity.

Sex is its subject, after all and the show makes the case, beneath its cinematic lacquer, that it is not something merely exciting or trivial but a deep human necessity.