Sentence examples for something as unimportant from inspiring English sources

"people often say..... they think it's scandalous that something as unimportant as money should stand between somebody in life and death, and you can understand emotionally why that sounds right until they stop and think about, well money isn't just money it's somebody else's opportunity for easement of pain or suffering or prolongation of perhaps a better quality of life" (EX040).

What this seemingly trivial detail reveals is the extraordinary accuracy of his historical memory, even in something as unimportant as cockscombs.

In current American usage, the phrase "that's history" is commonly used to dismiss something as unimportant, of no relevance to current concerns, and, despite an immense investment in the teaching and writing of history, the general level of historical knowledge in our society is abysmally low.

Rather, for maximum behavioral success, injury prevention messages must shock and surprise parents into paying attention to something they would normally dismiss as unimportant.

This is why Dumbledore's supposed gayness is ultimately as unimportant as Ron's shabby clothes.

Ministers are being disingenuous in downplaying the 45 minutes as unimportant.

In this show, the actual "business" is as unimportant as the women.

Why go back to being seen as something unimportant?

To do what the world expects you to do, even if that's something that for Arsenal seems as unimportant and tediously conformist as leaving your house in the morning with your shoes and socks on.

In "Messengers of Day" (1978), the second of his four volumes of memoirs, Powell dilates briefly on the "vulgarity" and "implausibilities" of Balzac before dismissing them as unimportant: "Besides -- something never to be forgotten -- with all novelists one must put up with something".

The moment I realised I could talk about not only myself, but something totally unimportant such as the experience of looking at the sunshine on a street, and bring these completely inconsequential things into this hallowed domain, that energised me and took me out of literature and its legitimate subjects into something new".