Sentence examples for trifling detail from inspiring English sources
He is pathological in pursuit of even the most trifling detail and there hangs over this strange romance something of the pathos of the East Anglian (as opposed to Ford Anglian) wanderings of W G Sebald.
This seemingly trifling detail actually led, within 20 years, to a total crash of the peregrine population.
On the other hand, maybe the writer did not really intend to dump on the poor Hindu pilgrims for the valley's problems, and just got led a little too far down the Wiki-saurus garden path on what was perhaps to him just a trifling detail for which journalistic convention, let us call it that, demanded a certain kind of treatment expected of Hindu topics.
Or maybe his parents did, mentioning it in passing and then forgetting about it; one of the surprises of being a parent is discovering how porous your older-person's memory is, while your kid latches onto trifling details with tenacious, intense recall.
Investigating his diary, analysts found entries in the voices of three people -- a boy, a young man and a middle-aged alter ego -- which recorded in numbing detail, over the course of ten years, "what people ate, or wore, or trifling things they said".
The difference may sound trifling.
Nothing here is trifling.
By itself, the offence seems trifling.
It was simply ugly and trifling.
This can make the work feel trifling.
