The phrase "trivial plot" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: "The film received negative reviews for its predictable dialogue and trivial plot."
Rowling is expert in tracking through a trivial plot line (the stealing of a watch) and making it play its part along the way in the bigger game.
That would seem a trivial plot point, except that the young lovers and Manto's father, Tiresia, priest of the goddess Latona, are swept into the chaos of the Thebes-Thessaly war.
OVER the years I've seen Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" countless times in various states of ruin and restoration, and for the most part found it hard to disagree with the conventional wisdom: beautiful images, trivial plot, naïve politics.
For instance, it presents on ten pages with half-page color plots trivial properties of the five hexane isomers, or it uses another half-page plot in order to prove lack of correlation, and fails to convey the more general and comprehensive aspects covered by the chapter's title.
The plot is trivial: the world is in danger of being destroyed by a "nuclear extremist" (as opposed to a "nuclear moderate"?).
We can not see the benefit presenting this trivial fact on the plot.
The blundering motel scenes in which they attempt to do so have a brief, brutal power that promises much, but Cianfrance doesn't push it to its extremes; rather, he drops it, vitiates its force in a cut, to events hours later, in which trivial screenplay incidents push the plot to his desired (but utterly artificial) conclusions.
Although they were considered to be gesaku, no less than the most trivial books of gossip, their plots were burdened with historical materials culled from Chinese and Japanese sources, and the authors frequently underlined their didactic purpose.
Graphical structure was compared to simulated hypothetical data to rule out that any observed structure was mathematically trivial, and any trade-off plots were tested for robustness against noise.
USgamer Parish noted how the game's non-player characters would "contemplate the profound and trivial" instead of reciting the active plot.
If new reviews delve only as deep as players and plots, they offer little beyond answers for a future game of Trivial Pursuit.
