To my great disappointment, bordering on disbelief, quotation marks are merited only twice in referring to the plans, and for relatively trivial phrases.
The first fast movement may be trivial; its symmetrical phrasing is unexpressive.
In the following sentence from an information pack that's just arrived from one of my pension providers – "Lump sum death benefits are paid under trust at the discretion of the trustees" – what do the words that aren't verbs, prepositions or articles mean? 4. Why do pensions experts keep using phrases like "trivial commutation" when I've asked them politely to stop?
It would be sensible, for a start, for us to make the apparently trivial rhetorical adjustment from the popular phrase "studies show …" and limit ourselves to phrases such as "studies suggest" or "studies indicate".
It may well have been the last time that the phrase was employed in so trivial a pursuit.
As part of this task, a team of experts has produced an extensive manually annotated corpus covering various chemical entity types, including systematic and trivial names, abbreviations and identifiers, formulae and phrases.
The temporary feeling of personal embarrassment associated with the phrase "I don't know" is trivial compared with a patient's undue suffering or untimely demise.
While the applicability of such STRF features for continuous solo performances is remarkably accurate, the cross-domain transition from single notes to musical phrases (even for solos) is not a trivial one.
In the book business, the words "a life" mean a biography, but the phrase has a deeper, more universal meaning, reflected on a trivial level by the catch phrase of a few years ago that admonished a person to get one.
He used the phrase to explain why incumbents often confuse new, disruptive threats to their businesses with trivial gimmicks.
