Sentence examples for trivial inconveniences from inspiring English sources

The storm has brought disaster — loss of life; grave damage to infrastructure and landscape, to homes and other property; ongoing struggle for daily sustenance — and also trivial inconveniences, ones so minor that, in the shared mourning, rue, and relief, their tiny serendipitous benefits gleam all the brighter.

There seemed to be an unspoken understanding that we would not allow trivial inconveniences or bad attitudes to taint this beautiful day.

And the hyper-intense focus on a few trivial inconveniences -- over and above the widespread hardship that both the sequestration meted out then, and the government shutdown is meting out now, to ordinary Americans -- has a toxic effect on the way these things are covered.

Why should opponents of the mayor's proposal be permitted to limit parents' freedom in this way, merely to spare themselves the trivial inconvenience of having to order a second 16-ounce soda?

Cayne, it turns out, was right to be wary of Greenberg's book, since he comes across not just as the obsessed bridge-playing Machiavellian of "House of Cards," but as a fabulist to boot: for Cayne, Greenberg says, the truth is "a trivial inconvenience".

Moreover, although the fences placed by the Slovenian Army at the border with Croatia might look like a trivial inconvenience, with no harm for EU prestige, those fences, like the rest of them across Europe, could easily be interpreted as an ominous sign of the growing lack of leadership and authority exercised by the EU's governing institutions.

Our practical inconveniences are trivial next to the ongoing trials of the people of Burma, and she is keen to underline the solidarity she shares with all who work for freedom.

When I arrived at my destination, however, all of those inconveniences seemed trivial.

But for one of the Swedes the inconvenience is trivial.

However, my inconvenience is trivial to the systemic racism that operates in this country.

This was so trivial compared to the other inconveniences of the recovery that I hardly remembered it months later.