Sentence examples for take trivial from inspiring English sources

Given a choice between being trivial and being ethical in any direction whatsoever, I'll take trivial (although I might want to debate the judgment), because ethics is not something I'm doing in these columns.

A patient whose insurance covers hospital visits but not doctor visits has an incentive to take trivial problems to the emergency room.

Most of it involves taking trivial incidents or remarks and seeking to inflate them into something larger.

Oldenburg takes trivial things – buttons, bus tickets, book matches – out of shallow boxes stacked in the customised shelves which make up an entire studio wall.

We display an increasing ability to take the trivial very seriously, in no small part because the trivial is understandable and nonthreatening.

To take something trivial and worry it to death, especially while wearing a sweater".

To take a trivial example, perhaps the earliest finding from the natural history of religion was that different peoples appeal to different gods.

To take a trivial example: how do those who complain about Muslims failing to "identify with Britain" feel about Channel 4 keeping the Big Brother inmates ignorant of the fact that, while they drank, argued and flirted, their country had led a worldwide demonstration against African poverty, won the 2012 Olympics and been attacked by terrorists?

Writing in our pages in 1998, A. Alvarez, who once published Sylvia Plath's work as poetry editor of the Observer, said, Part of her genius lay in her ability to take any trivial domestic incident — a cut thumb, an unwanted visitor, a bruise — and infuse it with significance.

Take the trivial 1 -dimensional L + -module k I v generated by I v ; hence, a ( n ) I v = 0 for all a ∈ B, n ≥ 0. Clearly, V = I n d L + L k I v = U ( L ) ⊗ U ( L + ) k I v ≅ U ( L ) / U ( L ) L +. Then V has the structure of the highest weight module over L with the action given by multiplication on U ( L ) / U ( L ) L + and a highest weight vector I ∈ U ( L ).

Why would news outlets not take a trivial step that would make their material much more informative to their audience?