Sentence examples for trifling thing from inspiring English sources
This verse is a trifling thing on the surface, little more than the joke or jape Martial references in its final line.
"But aren't you one of those atheists who say that God doesn't exist?" "Who said that? Don Cognasso, who can't even grasp the most trifling thing?
Richard Barry felt the same way in 1917, when the price of a postage stamp rose to 3 cents from 2 cents to help finance World War I. Writing in The New York Times, he acknowledged that the increase was, perhaps, a "trifling thing".
One Monday morning, after he's stuffed himself full of courage the whole of the day before, he went to work, and the boss walked in and presented him with some trifling thing, maybe a fountain pen, or an inkwell, and the employees put flowers on his desk, because that Monday marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of his entry into the firm, and he had forgotten about it.
Perhaps something could be done along these lines, but it would be a poor, paltry, truncated, trifling thing.
While I am unaware of how the whole thing ended, if indeed it was ever started, the fact remains that the citizens of the European Union see this as a great bureaucratic apparatus, removed from the people, an apparatus which costs a great deal and which requires an extremely large amount of administration for every trifling thing, not to mention major projects.
Sad as it may seem, especially to outsiders, on such small and trifling things can the prospects of presidential aspirants hinge.
Here's something to think about on World Philosophy Day: while academic achievement, career advancement and financial success are no trifling things, they're simply visible husks that may grow around a philosophical life.
One study has found that people who engage in deep conversations experience more happiness than people who chitchat about small, trifling things.
Womack proclaims The Bravest Man in the Universe "the best thing I've ever done" and he clearly isn't minded to let a trifling matter like being rushed to hospital get in the way of promoting it.
This is no trifling matter.
