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Example sentences for "trivialities"

Lexicographically close words:
triunfo; triunity; trivalent; trivet; trivial; triviality; trivium; tro; troble; trocar
  1. For us midsummer lasts till August is half over, and we utterly refuse to trouble ourselves about equinoxes and solstices and trivialities of that kind.

  2. He will treat his brethren as beings to be aided and directed, he will use his strength and his wisdom as gifts for which he must render an account, and the trivialities of etiquette will count as nothing.

  3. The wider outlook gave a new meaning to her own existence, for it enabled her to see its human dignity, underlying the trivialities that had disquieted her hitherto.

  4. It is the price which must be paid by those who would rise above the fretting trivialities of existence.

  5. What a contempt old Tusser would have had for all the imported and fabricated condiments and trivialities that now come to our tables in packages suggestive of medicines and drugs!

  6. This is much like the instruction in manual training that begins with formal and meaningless model work or trivialities and neglects the issues of life.

  7. Our talk on trivialities engrossed me for the moment," he murmured.

  8. Mr. Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed, and never handed round that small-talk of heavy men which is as acceptable as stale bride-cake brought forth with an odor of cupboard.

  9. Granny Marrable had been right, and old Maisie had slept again, or seemed to sleep, after some dutiful useless attempts to head off Death by trivialities of nourishment.

  10. She started on her report with every good-will to make it a prosperous one, and got entangled in some trivialities that told against her purpose.

  11. It was strange indeed that such trivialities should have a force to span the huge gulf years had dug between these two, and yet never show a rift in the black cloud of their fraud-begotten ignorance.

  12. But consider how much space is taken up with mere trivialities and vulgarities under the name of news.

  13. When I found it was printed in July, I need not say that I lost all interest in it, though why the trivialities and crimes and accidents, relating to people I never knew, were not as good six months after date as twelve hours, I cannot say.

  14. He seldom brushes his wings against the dust or lingers among the humble flowers close to the dust: he does not follow the masters in their entertaining trivialities and fatuities.

  15. No, we are not warranted to draw from these trivialities the grand results which send Shakib in ecstasies about his Master's genius.

  16. It is not as if such trivialities could do harm.

  17. We are all so busy that we have no time for quiet meditation, and so much occupied with trivialities about others that we are strangers to ourselves.

  18. How are the light butterfly wings of the trivialities in which many men and women spend their days to carry them across the awful gulf?

  19. The first of those thousand and one trivialities which would go on and on from now onward in endless monotony, whilst Luke prepared for his trial, for his condemnation, perhaps for death.

  20. I don't think that ever in his life before had Luke realized the trivialities of life as he did at this moment.

  21. Thank Heaven for the trivialities of life," Lucilla put in with fervour.

  22. That magnificent ghostly head on the canvas, surely, never beheld all the trivialities of a Sunday afternoon, and it did not seem to matter what she and this young man said to each other, for they were only small people.

  23. He was in a condition of mind rather too exalted for the trivialities of daily life.

  24. But Bunner's realism never concerned itself with the record of trivialities for their own sake.

  25. The artificial and sentimental trivialities of the pigtail age were superseded almost at a stroke, and the petty formalism under which the literature of Germany was languishing fell about the powdered wigs of its professional representatives.

  26. His purpose was something that transcended the mere trivialities of every-day intercourse.

  27. And an existence so centered on one great issue found scant time to worry over the trivialities of the moment.

  28. In my opinion, the trivialities of a human being are worth more than the grandeur of a mountain, any day.

  29. For all his guarded indifference of manner, she felt the ice melting under her touch: and the passionate human interest, of which she had already spoken, held her, to exclusion of such minor trivialities as possibly distracted partners.

  30. But, for goodness' sake, don't let's talk trivialities in the face of these stupendous mountains.

  31. Mrs. Jakes was watching her husband anxiously, while Ford and Margaret took up the burden of inconsequent talk and made a screen of trivialities for her.

  32. It came to her that their writers lived as in dim glass cases, seeing the world beyond their own small scope as a distance of shadows, indeterminate and void, while trivialities and toys that were close to them bulked like impending doom.

  33. Then he lifted her tenderly and carried her back to the station whence the mail train, careless of such trivialities as miraculous cart, had departed.

  34. What were such trivialities in comparison with the main fact of general success?

  35. All his present designs faded away into mere trivialities in comparison with this splendid conception.

  36. I did not invite you here to discuss trivialities like these.

  37. Such people do not talk about trivialities when they are thinking about much more serious concerns.

  38. It would be easier to speak in dusk than in bald daylight--easier also before the bloom of reunion had been rubbed off by the prosaic trivialities of life.

  39. A sudden bitterness overwhelmed him--a sense of the futility of attempting to strike at a man so obviously favoured by the gods; a man who held his head so resolutely above the minor trivialities of life.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trivialities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.