Sentence examples for trivial event from inspiring English sources

This may sound like a trivial event.

The Oscars are, after all, perhaps the most lavishly and aggressively trivial event on the pop culture calendar.

"This was not a trivial event here," David Axelrod, the Obama confidant, told me, referring to the shutdown.

Pope couches the trivial event in terms usually reserved for incidents of great moment such as the quarrel between the Greeks and the Trojans.

They respond by making fun of the event and those involved, of course, suggesting that it is a trivial event attended by vacuous people, which of course defines most of the nightlife in New York, but let's not go there.

In Cummings's view, a political system is the same as any other complex system, subject to non-linear outcomes in which some relatively trivial event can cast a huge shadow.

But the most trivial events may also register on Google's sensitive cultural seismic meter.

But he worried that society was being dulled by its fascination with trivial events.

But it's worth noting that shutdowns are far from trivial events.

Characters appear as needed, trivial events become giants, tragedy is miniaturized and coated with soft glitter.

Amid these trivial events Ms. Cusk's characters brim over with internal musings, similar again to "Saturday" and "Mrs. Dalloway".