Sentence examples for trifle of a from inspiring English sources

It's clear, in this trifle of a play, that Gurney has a few suggestions for Bush about how he might handle his exit from office.

The metaphorically minded should not be surprised that Ms. Faucher builds her trifle of a story much like Claire works her embroidery: piece by precious piece.

In this entertaining trifle of a book, Bourdain brings a rather different set of concerns to the table, and I do mean table.

This trifle of a tale preceded Barbery's best-seller "The Elegance of the Hedgehog" in France but follows it in publication here, which is rather like serving the amuse-bouche after the entrée.

In "Imagine That," a harmless trifle of a family comedy, Eddie Murphy plays Evan Danielson, a buttoned-up Denver financier whose 7-year-old daughter, Olivia (Yara Shahidi), forces him to rediscover his inner child.

The one thing that offended me was the jokey disclaimer at the start, referring to "this trifle of a movie," and stating that it was not meant to be inflammatory.

The documentary is a "slam, bam, thank you, ma'am" trifle of an entertainment, one strategically packaged for Generation A.D.D. DARGIS 'THE JACKET' Directed by John Maybury.

The documentary is a "slam, bam, thank you, ma'am" trifle of an entertainment, one strategically packaged for Generation A.D.D. DARGIS * 'MILLION DOLLAR Starringarring Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman.

"Young Woman with a Water Pitcher" is a Sermon on the Mount of aesthetic value, in which the meek — or, at least, the humdrum, involving trifles of a prosperous but ordinary household, on an ordinary day — inherit the earth.

Northern Foods, the maker of chilled foods for Marks & Spencer as well as Goodfella's pizza, is up a trifle ahead of a deadline for chicken entrepreneur Ranjit Boparan to make a bid.

The texts pictured range from the Old Testament, reverentially studied in a Rembrandt masterpiece, to a trifle of the sort that, according to Rousseau, was best read with one hand.