How To Use Triviality In A Sentence
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No, no, no; you'd never find me wasting my time on such fruitless triviality.
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The music's lightness (but not triviality) belies the opera's seriousness.
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Why is modern life so obsessed with triviality?
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The 1990s produced a president perfectly suited to the time - a time of domesticity, triviality and self-absorption.
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The prison sentence seemed rather harsh, considering the triviality of the offence.
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To most teams, this would seem like a triviality.
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Apfelbaum refreshingly asserts that a sense of humor need not condemn the artist to triviality.
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Real practice was going to expose their triviality once and for all.
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The triviality of these people and their lives is staggering.
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The second lesson is about triviality.
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The template for this book's monologues is the on-screen navel-gazing of TV contestants, and it requires of its reader a similar concern for triviality.
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So much of my day is taken up with triviality, frustration, and minutiae!
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They seem to be trivial checks, but it is because of their triviality that they are often ignored.
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This, he emphasized, was most important, but it seemed to her just another ridiculous triviality.
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But my problem with the ideological feminism was that I couldn't stand the triviality of so much of it.
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Meanwhile, I reflected on the triviality of human affairs and the weakness of the individuals who hold the fate of the world in their hands.
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As a lyricist, he still oscillates between occasional felicities and frequent triviality.
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Since all subject matter shrinks to triviality when compared to the cataclysms of the Holocaust and the Gulag, it follows that a tragedy such as Macbeth is of limited relevance to our recent history.
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Where there is triviality, there is sin and animality.
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Denis believes that this is partly because of a flight from the triviality of the other media.
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Some weeks ago, rooting around in files of old clippings and correspondence, I made a discovery of astonishing obviousness and triviality.
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In looking at the class of counsel, and power, and wealth, and at the matronage of the land, amidst all the prudence and all the triviality, one asks, Where are they who represented genius, virtue, the invisible and heavenly world, to these?
The Transcendentalist
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Triviality, varied by touches of ill-breeding and sententiousness," it elaborated; "she has nothing in her mind except the wish to tell her sister everything; and so she flits from the cows to the currant bushes, from the currant bushes to Mrs. Hall of Sherborne, gives Mrs. Hall a tap, and flits back again" (362-63; cf. even Austen-Leigh’s Memoir 207).
Boxing Emma; or the Readers Dilemma at the Box Hill Games
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I had quite a long struggle with it and come to see the triviality of ideals.
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The aggressive triviality of the campaign is having a deadening effect on the electorate.
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Hurley's show was a brilliant reflection of Kiwi culture and portrayal of the triviality of politics and the public's attitude towards them.
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Instead, much of what goes on takes on triviality of what, to both[sentence dictionary], will be everyday life.
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Yeah, you're a busy man and you sure as hell don't have time for such triviality as shaving.
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We pay for this frivolity, this triviality, this nugacity of a pastime.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each of the short stories in Dubliners concludes with a showing that manifests the integrity and indivisible nature of some momentary ‘triviality,’ as Joyce calls it.
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When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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The memory stung him now with its triviality compared to what Alistair would go through.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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The prison sentence seemed rather harsh, considering the triviality of the offence.
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Once a person takes upon himself community leadership, it is best to minimize public participation in activities which have a smack of triviality.
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In the new art, men became gods by shedding triviality…
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Apfelbaum refreshingly asserts that a sense of humor need not condemn the artist to triviality.
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What does a triviality like that matter compared to my indulgence of hatred?
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He was going to expose their triviality once and for all.
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The matter of the United Kingdom being engaged in a war which few of us condone far transcends the triviality of local affairs.
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For pettiness, for triviality; for all the little things that had vexed him.
EVERVILLE
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Such depth of knowledge, spread across so many words - a million so far, and we have yet even to reach his 1960 Presidential bid - would normally mean only that every triviality was written up, making for tedious prolixity.
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If the artist will stoop to linger in the Circean hall of the senses, he must not be astonished if good and earnest men should reproach him with the triviality of a misspent and egotistic life.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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We had traded in a decade of triviality for an era of profundity.
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Given the satirical clout of his greatest operettas, the charge of triviality now strikes us as absurd, but it rankled.
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This enormous power to subject the American public to serial triviality is far from trivial.
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This enormous power to subject the American public to serial triviality is far from trivial.
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We can laugh at, or bemoan, the triviality of the media.
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But this disturbance persisted - and it persisted in giving the impression that it was neither cat nor triviality.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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Another reports that in 55 markets in 35 states, local news was dominated by crime and violence, triviality and celebrity.
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This was a garden-variety depression, born of boredom and loneliness and a pervasive sense of the immense triviality of life.
FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
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The worst depredations upon the environment, give or take a few, have all been inflicted in the last twenty-five years -- the duration in which markets have gotten freer in the U.S., and the population explosion globally has been regarded a surmountable triviality.
Environmentalist Forecasting Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
