Use trivial in a sentence
Sentences ending with trivial
- Happiness makes the universe infinite and stupendous, despair makes it small and even trivial. [11]
- He talked to them and discussed something trivial. [2]
- His interest in the colony was never the most intelligent, and apt to be in things trivial. [4]
- To do something, say something, see something, before any body else--these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. [5]
- In the midst of all this magnificence, the solid gold and silver furniture of the altar seemed cheap and trivial. [5]
- Yet what he now had it in his power to offer, since his conversation with the syndic, was by no means trivial. [10]
- We never saw Mont Blanc at his best until we were many miles away; then he lifted his majestic proportions high into the heavens, all white and cold and solemn, and made the rest of the world seem little and plebeian, and cheap and trivial. [5]
Sentences containing trivial two or more times
- We know that man has the faculty of becoming completely absorbed in a subject however trivial it may be, and that there is no subject so trivial that it will not grow to infinite proportions if one's entire attention is devoted to it. [2]
More example sentences with the word trivial in them
- But it made you seem sorrowfully trivial, and the creature of a day, and such a short and paltry day, too. [5]
- Do exactly as you please with the land--always remember this--that so trivial a percentage as ten per cent will never sell it. [5]
- But on the whole I was occupied with more trivial matters a letter I had forgotten to write about a month's rent, a client whose summer address I had mislaid. [9]
- The trivial sin which this sweet love secret contained had been pardoned in the case of the man bound by no older obligation, after a slight penance, and now for the first time he fully enjoyed the wealth of the unexpected new happiness. [10]
- We pass by what would be of inestimable value to us, and pack our memories with the most trivial odds and ends that never by any chance; under any circumstances whatsoever, could be of the slightest use to any one. [5]
- If trivial matters were to be censured this Areopagus was not convened. [10]
- But the day went on and the old mother forgot all the wrongs that she had suffered, and yearned over the trivial woman who was hurrying out into the Great Space. [11]
- This delay, however, was of trivial importance; for Herr Pfinzing had promised his brother-in-law that his cause should be considered and settled on the following day. [10]
- The trivial commonness was gone from her coquetting shoulders and drooping eyelids; and from her body had passed its flexuous softness. [11]
- She did not vouchsafe them a word, yet neither did she allow any of them to render her even the most trivial service. [10]
- In the country village where there are no theatres the people make dramas out of each other's lives; the most trivial incidents are magnified and talked about--dramatized, in short. [4]
- In short, so useful has that trivial implement proved as a jaw-stopper and a boricide, that I never go to a club or a dinner-party, without wishing the company included our Scheherezade and That Boy with his popgun. [6]
- The sudden flaring up of this trivial incident served to re-establish her identity, to light a fuse along which her mind began to run like fire, illuminating redly all the events of the day before. [9]
- How small and trivial was the former in comparison with the latter, which had no termination! [10]
- Nothing was too trivial to be mentioned. [4]
- They spoke of trivial things that found no place in Austen's memory, and at times, upon one pretext or another, he fell behind a little that he might feast his eyes upon her. [9]
- They notice the trivial movements and accents which betray the blood of this or that ancestor; they can detect the irrepressible movement of hereditary impulse in looks and acts which mean nothing to the common observer. [6]
- Somehow the commonplace, trivial interruption produced on both a strange, even startling effect. [11]
- Everything else appeared trivial in comparison. [10]
- Think of it--that trivial conceit was neighbor, with but a scarcely measurable interval of time between, to an event destined to endure forever in histories and songs. [5]
- Of course, this trivial and, fugitive fact of personal wealth does not create a permanent class, unless some special means are taken to arrest the process of disintegration in the third generation. [6]
- And it was to him an enigma--when occasionally he allowed his thoughts to dwell upon such trivial matters--why Honora was not equally congenial with the wives. [9]
- He had promised to come to Hartford, but wrote that trivial matters had made his visit impossible. [5]
- Yet he appeared to be casually doing a trivial and necessary act. [11]
- I lived again those moments that had followed Nancy's surrender, seeking to recall and fix in my mind every word that had escaped from her lips--the trivial things that to lovers are so fraught with meaning. [9]
- The courteous Dr. Thompson will let me tell here an odd coincidence, trivial, but having its interest as one of a series. [6]
- One might think there was a touch of prophecy in that, and we will let it go at that; but to my mind it had its inspiration in those great men's accurate knowledge of the King's trivial and treacherous character. [5]
- Throughout my life there have been days and incidents, some trivial, some important, that linger in my memory because they are saturated with "atmosphere. [9]
- They lived in their writings, and so their home and street life was trivial and commonplace. [6]
- We smile at their little vanities, as if they were very trivial things compared with the last Congressman's speech or the great Election Sermon; but Nature knows well what she is about. [6]
- But what is the trivial, temporal accident of the wiping out of a planet and its inhabitants to the infinite catastrophe which shall establish a mighty world of eternal despair? [6]
- But under all the trivial sparkle a serious heart beats. [11]
- He soon overcame the trivial objections made by the philosopher and, fifteen minutes after they had left the Corner of the Muses, he was permitted to open the door of his house to his guests, and he did so with genuine pleasure. [10]
- She had not the most trivial thing for which Barbara could be seriously reproached to report to the confessor; yet De Soto desired nothing better, for Barbara still exerted an extremely favourable influence upon the Emperor's mood. [10]
- The flowers and the hedges had grown to a certain wildness; and the smell of the American roses carried me back-as odours will-to long-forgotten and trivial scenes. [9]
- How Death, with the gentleness and majesty, made the human grand-folk around him seem little and trivial and silly! [5]
- This multitude see the comic side of a thousand low-grade and trivial things--broad incongruities, mainly; grotesqueries, absurdities, evokers of the horse-laugh. [5]
- Mrs. Pomfret declared that she had only left out Victoria because her presence might be awkward for both of them, but Mr. Crewe waved this aside as a trivial and feminine objection; so Victoria was invited, and another young man to balance the table. [9]
- He prayed with that passionate and shamefaced feeling with which men pray at moments of great excitement arising from trivial causes. [2]
- Men with quick tempers might quarrel over trivial things, but exasperation did not always end in bodily injury and the taking of life; imprecations were not so uncommon that they could be taken as evidence of wilful murder. [11]
- Even the most superb show seemed to her too trivial for this dead man. [10]
- The vulgar political suggestion might have crept into a more trivial mind than Mr. Crewe's that Mr. Painter was being, "put to bed," the bed being very similar to that of Procrustes. [9]
- It is not so: the foolish trivial end, The inconsequent paltry Nothing--gone--gone all; The genius of the ageless Something spend Itself within this little earthly wall: The commonplace conception, that we reap Reward of drudge and ploughman--idle sleep! [11]
- Often the first sketch succeeds, but if it fails, he seeks without regard to truth and accuracy, by means of trivial, strange expedients, to accomplish his purpose. [10]
- His loyalty was sincere; his probity was above suspicion--(and it made him sufficiently conspicuous in that trivial and conscienceless Court). [5]
- Again the steward shook his head; this vast, unexpected inheritance did not seem to make half so deep an impression upon the eccentric blind man as the news received a short time ago that his trivial debt to the goldsmith Chello was already settled. [10]
- Flushed and agitated she went about the house all that day, dry-eyed, occupied with most trivial matters as if not understanding what awaited her. [2]
- Lali was primitive, she was unlike so many in a trivial world, but she was right. [11]
- A jeering laugh seemed the only fitting answer to such a surprise, but Miriam's grave face helped him to repress it and conceal the tumult of his soul by trivial words. [10]
- Once he even said, in so many words, that our people down here were quite interesting to him, notwithstanding they were so dull and ignorant and trivial and conceited, and so diseased and rickety, and such a shabby, poor, worthless lot all around. [5]
- Little indications and rumors, each trivial in itself, became a mass of testimony that could not be disposed of because of its very indefiniteness, but which appealed strongly to man's noblest faculty, his imagination, or credulity. [4]
- How should the ruler over a million souls find time or patience for her and her trivial griefs? [10]
- He entered the room with characteristic unconcern, as if he had just left it on a trivial errand, and without a "How do you do? [9]
- But presently I remembered with a lightening sense of relief that we had learned two or three trivial things there which we could be certain of; and so the two days were not wholly lost. [5]
- Prince Andrew dimly realized that all this was trivial and that he had more important cares, but he continued to speak, surprising them by empty witticisms. [2]
- Indeed, no; his punishment is trivial compared with theirs. [5]
- So in Virginia's presence she became more trivial and petty than ever. [9]
- It said as plainly as possible, you must look at me, and not at my trivial accidents. [4]
- It was order personified, gaining effect at every turn by a multitude of details too trivial to mention were it not for the fact that they entered deeply into my consciousness, until they came to represent, collectively, the very flower of achievement. [9]
- Murray Bradshaw was perfectly determined, and not to be kept back by any trivial hindrances, such as her present unwillingness to accept him, or even her repugnance to him, if a freak of the moment had carried her so far. [6]
- What are thy paltry domains, thy trivial interests, contrasted with matters which concern the weal of a nation and the integrity of a throne? [5]
- But when, so painfully surprised that her eyes filled with tears, she confessed that her selection perhaps had not been very appropriate, and sadly added the inquiry why her beloved sovereign condemned a trivial offence so harshly, he wrathfully exclaimed, "For more than one reason. [10]
- Are you tired of my trivial personalities,--those splashes and streaks of sentiment, sometimes perhaps of sentimentality, which you may see when I show you my heart's corolla as if it were a tulip? [6]
- All the elements of life that previously had been realities, trivial yet fundamental, her work, her home, her intercourse with the family, became fantastic. [9]
- Each trivial incident of an encounter real and yet unreal! [9]
- Nor need the occasion of this revolution be a great one; the most trivial event may produce the great fire which burns up wisdom, prudence and habit. [11]
- The convent was not visible from her chamber, but the acrid odor of the smoke and the loud voices which reached her ear from that direction proved that the fire was no trivial one. [10]
- And is it not so cheap, and so common, and often so trivial, that the reader smiles in derision when the newspaper mentions it? [5]
- And it was no trivial matter for the high-souled maiden to devote herself, with sweet self-sacrifice, to those whose roughness and uncouth manners wounded her. [10]
- His work was no longer trivial, crude, and showy; it was full of dignity, beauty, and power; his humor was finer, worthier. [5]
- And don't write me any more damned rot about "storms," and inability to pay trivial sums of money and--and--hell and damnation! [5]
- Perhaps the reader may smile at the mention of such trivial indispositions, but in more sensitive natures death itself follows in some cases from no more serious cause. [6]
- No word of love had ever been exchanged between him and Barine, but how kindly she had always looked at him, how willingly she had accepted trivial services! [10]
- For this trivial loss she had suffered intense anxiety and been faithless to her resolution to seek death, which ends all fears. [10]
- Barine had noticed long before that her mother, in her fear and bewilderment, had brought her own cloak instead of her daughter's, and this circumstance also did not seem to her foe too trivial for a sneer. [10]
- Usually Eva paid little heed to the quarrels of the servants, but this one appeared to have some connection with herself, and the cause could be no trivial one, since Aunt Kunigunde took part in it. [10]
- He sees the little coxswain leaning forward at every stroke, as if her trivial weight were of such mighty consequence,--but a few ounces might turn the scale of victory. [6]
- When he at last rose and looked at what he had done, he could not help smiling, and asking himself how it was possible to imitate, with such trivial materials, the noblest possessions of man: mind and soul. [10]
- It was usually Jethro's custom to allow the other man to begin the conversation, no matter how trivial the subject--a method which had commended itself to Mr. Bixby and other minor politicians who copied him. [9]
- Apart, then, from its special and technical interest, my subject has a meaning which gives a certain importance, and even dignity, to details in themselves trivial and almost unworthy of record. [3]
- Melissa knew that it could be no trivial matter which detained him there, and hurried after him into the tavern. [10]
- It came out in trivial matters,--but each one, in his or her way, manifested kindness. [6]
- The pilot, even in those days of trivial wages, had a princely salary--from a hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars a month, and no board to pay. [5]
- What was there in this trivial incident that so magnified it in Philip's mind, day after day? [4]
- It cultivates self-consciousness in the community, and love of notoriety; it develops vanity and self-importance, and elevates the trivial in life above the essential. [4]
- He might turn, in obedience to what seemed a whim, either to the right or left, only to recognize new blazes that led him on with surer step; and trivial accidents became events charged with meaning. [9]
- The incident, trivial in itself, gave rise to serious reflections touching the capacity and use of the red man in modern life. [4]
- He was young, ignorant, good-natured, well-meaning, trivial, full of romance, and given to reading chivalric novels and singing forlorn love-ditties. [5]
- It was Matthew I wanted, Matthew of whom I thought, and trivial, long-forgotten incidents of the past kept recurring to me constantly. [9]
- As a magistrate, I acquitted her of a trivial misdemeanour which she committed while my wedding procession was on its way to the altar. [10]
- You can reckon how many copies at ten cents a copy it will need to make as much as some writers get for a trivial magazine paper. [4]
- I ask any honest Democrat if the small, the local, and the trivial and temporary question is not, Who shall be governor? [7]
- His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing. [2]
- One element in his success, a trivial one compared with others, but not to be despised, was his punctuality. [3]
- Yet even as his head drooped, something else happened--one of those trivial things which yet may be the pivot of great things. [11]
- But how trivial his errors had been! [10]
- A little after his arrival, however, he wrote concerning an incident of his former visit--a trivial matter--but one which had annoyed him. [5]
- She could not herself have told why she should take up again these trivial tasks as though no cataclysmic events had intervened to divide forever the world of yesterday from that of to-morrow. [9]
- She had screened herself from a scolding before now by trivial subterfuges, but never had told a serious lie; and every instinct rebelled against the demand that she should now state a direct falsehood. [10]
- Our hearts are held down to our homes by innumerable fibres, trivial as that I have just recalled; but Gulliver was fixed to the soil, you remember, by pinning his head a hair at a time. [6]
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