Sentence examples for trivial slips from inspiring English sources
In a sense, the book is itself a sort of collection – of anecdotes, of second-hand stories – that, while it is chatty and informal, is at the same time a serious attempt to put in order what we normally regard as trivial: slips of the tongue, mis-spellings, a dropped pot or stubbed toe.
Golio says he aimed to write "a story that told the truth," and insofar as the truth can be told about Dylan, he has succeeded, making only a couple of trivial factual slips.
That was no trivial gaffe.
Though trivial in itself, that file had slipped through Apple's normally sturdy defences.
"I wouldn't say it's trivial, but it's just a slip," he told the BBC.
It was intended that the definition although broad, would not include simple accidents (e.g. slipping on urine in a cell) or trivial injury.
The castoffs start to bicker — "I fail to see what humor there is in incessant trivial flippancy," Victor says, when Sybil defends her feckless husband — and, just then, Elyot slips the wink to Amanda.
Figure 8a shows that for the (010) orientation, dislocation slips dominate the plastic deformation of the material, and deformation twinning is trivial.
In just about any other measurable way, the United States has slipped in the world's eyes in this millennium, but in something as trivial as the world's most popular sport, it has actually moved up a notch or two.
"Cosmetic surgery has slipped so far away from the realm of serious medicine that buying it seems as trivial as purchasing a garment or a hairdo," said Dr. Adam Searle, the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.
