Sentence examples for once trivial from inspiring English sources

It's perfectly possible, in other words, to have an explanation that is at once trivial and profound, depending on what kind of question you're asking.

Cut together and presented in sequence, the film would be crowded and hectic; the personalities would be lost and the dramatic turns at once trivial and overdone.

The one in the exhibition is particularly rich in photographs, and its contents are like Warhol's photographic output as a whole, at once trivial and revealing.

The story, once so trivial to Bustos, now seems prophetically true.

What once seemed trivial and manageable (I'm a tough cookie, I can cope) no longer did so.

Scott: Part of the history of strained pulp is the long march to respectability of cultural pursuits that were once deemed trivial or disreputable.

"While we'd all love to keep holding hands and singing "Kumbaya," the reality is that as the 99 percent movement gets bigger, so do the stakes and various differences and divisions that once seemed trivial," she wrote.

For those of us who covered it, as I did for The New York Times, it claimed a year of our lives -- a year of endlessly surreal events, backbreaking deadlines, intense bonding and total immersion in the bizarre demimonde of Southern California celebrity, at once unspeakably trivial and the very center of the universe.

We've been using the iPhone for just a few months shy of two years now, and a few things that once seemed trivial have come to drive us up the wall.

Once those trivial exchanges are over, compliment them.

I did not realize until it was too late how the once-seemingly trivial misrepresentations in my own case affected the court's perception of me, and how this perception would lead to the court finding in the government's favor.