Sentence examples for trivial rather from inspiring English sources

To the extent that they merely orchestrate, however ingeniously, they tend to make the originals sound more trivial rather than grander, and seem dated.

James refrains from ever saying exactly what manufactured article made the Newsome family fortune ("a small, trivial, rather ridiculous object of the commonest domestic use"), whereas Ozick bluntly informs us that Marvin earns his money from "plastic airplane parts".

The attraction of inappropriate attention, aspiration, and affection to a shimmer spins out, in its operation, a little mist of energy which is rather like love, but trivial, rather like a sense of home, but apt to disappear.

"It is always a cause of pain when a place that safeguards a part of our history becomes the container of something else that is trivial rather than a space in which the collective memory is cultivated," reads the letter sent to centre-left mayor Piero Fassino.

"There's going to be an emphasis on the trivial, rather than stories which require more considered reading.

The Sunday Times reports that Mr Phillips will make a speech next week criticising the "PC lobby" for being fixated with "the trivial" rather than the "truly dangerous".

More controversially, I also argued that highly vital interests of the current nonperson ought to trump even some non-trivial, rather serious interests of the earlier person.

It is in part because the notion of manipulation/intervention has an interesting and complex fine structure-a structure that is left largely unexplored in traditional manipulability theories-that working out the connection between causation and manipulation turns out to be interesting and non-trivial rather than banal and obvious.

Another danger, according to Mr. Keane, is that serious complaints will be lost among the chatter of trivial ones, rather than coming to the attention of officers' superiors through official channels.

I suppose the only blessing in this is that the SNP are wasting their time on such trivial matters, rather than getting on with ruining the country.

Figuring out how to best address the issue of improving third-party app accessibility is not a trivial matter; rather, it's a complex problem with some potential pitfalls.