Sentence examples for trifling details from inspiring English sources

But hey, it's tough to remember such trifling details.

Ryan's Homer Simpson-meets-Pagliacci routine keeps the troops fired up, but he is rarely bothered by trifling details, like his offense.

His disappointment and contempt took the form of bitter public criticism and even outright physical violence, and Frederick, beaten and humiliated by his father, often over trifling details of behaviour, took refuge in evasion and deceit.

Diamandis wasn't put off her goal by trifling details such as the fact that she had never sung in public, didn't write songs and wasn't even particularly fond of music.

You are provided not only with your own stretch limousine (a Volvo, naturally) and driver to take you to all your destinations, you also have the services of a personal attaché, a young diplomat from the Swedish foreign ministry, to make sure you stick to the schedule and to take care of all trifling details.

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.

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.

It may seem like a trifling point, but this is an attractive feature of civilised living.

Details such as these, to have any interest with posterity, must concern great personages, with whom fame has made us acquainted, and regarding whom we wish to know every particular, however trifling; or they must relate to persons whom we ourselves know; or, lastly, they may be written with such a charm of style as to please on that account, without reference to their subject matter.