Sentence examples for these trifles from inspiring English sources

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These trifles weren't mentioned, of course, in the grand Napoleonic church, scene of the family's weddings and funerals — a church where kings had prayed, and which was one of the many rumored hiding places of the Holy Grail.

These trifles weren't mentioned, of course, in the grand Napoleonic church, scene of the family's weddings and funerals a church where kings had prayed, and which was one of the many rumored hiding places of the Holy Grail.

Glover doesn't need to remind us that he's capable of more, so enjoy these trifles for what they are — a welcome gift during a hot, hard, scary summer.

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Yet, these are trifles.

In the production of these elegant trifles Camões was inimitable.

Yet these are trifles compared with the ambitions that are made manifest on its Web site.

Mr. Stoppard long ago soared beyond these apprentice trifles and keeps creating some of the finest plays of our day, which arrive regularly in sublime productions.

But these are trifles compared with the magisterial work that Mr. Nasaw has produced on one of this country's (and Scotland's) most remarkable men.

He believed that not only did an Old Master expose his identity with these "material trifles"; forgers and imitators were also less likely to pay sufficient attention to them, and thus betray themselves.

However, these are trifles compared with the more serious stuff of life; as the scientists suggest, it's one thing to weigh up the positive and negative aspects of a person's behaviour, but quite another to bend so heavily towards forgiveness and second chances that another's harmful actions are tolerated, and even normalised, to the detriment of those around them.

In other words, "We may harness the atom, we may land on the moon, we may abolish or intensify warfare, the mental processes of animals may be understood; but all these are trifles, they belong to history, not art".

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