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.
Slightly comic and trivial though these emotional struggles may appear, they will help determine not only whether the two top seeds do indeed reach next Sunday's final but in what shape they do so, and quite possibly therefore who takes the title.
It is only if it was something, like, that you might feel was slightly less – more trivial than – a sore throat or something".
It employed spelling correction, the merging of adjacent entities and entity extension to increase the chance of recognising the trivial names slightly outside the coverage of the dictionary and write rules to describe the systematic chemical nomenclature.
Whatever thought he was obsessing over suddenly seemed trivial, and his slightly distracted mind went on to something else.
The little fake shutter noise and slightly washed-out colors seem to make any occasion trivial.
She brings a cool and slightly distanced rigor — a deadpan irony — to trivial events, unlike, say, Harmony Korine, whose recent bouncing-breasts-and-spraying-beer extravaganza, "Spring Breakers," seems as inebriated as the girls it celebrates.
"At first blush, these sorts of reactions can seem trivial: Okay, so we're slightly more likely to look at the eye region, big deal," says Stephen Shepherd, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University in New York City who was not involved in the research.
When I first read The Borrowers aged about seven, it barely seemed fiction, apart from trivial details like the main characters being slightly undersized and living under the floorboards beneath a long case clock.
While it's trivial to pirate a PC game, it takes slightly more wherewithal to pirate an Xbox 360 game, though no more than the average 16-year-old can attain in a few hours' worth of forum-lurking.
