What trivialities they were beside Ellen's death and Gerald's vagueness, beside hunger and cold and back-breaking work and the living nightmare of insecurity.
It's as if these people spent their days chasing trivialities like wealth and respect, sacrificing their limited time and inner tranquility to obtain these things.
They would have hugged each other during the recital, and she would have been able to enlarge upon a hundred trivialities of moustache and hair and eyes, the wonder of which older minds can seldom appreciate.
When I have laboured out a story, I suddenly see it in a light of such contemptible triviality that to work at it is an impossible thing.' 'You are ill, that's the fact of the matter.
Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.
" This pipe is a very elaborate toy, and you seem so reasonable in this country, and your architecture is so good, that I rather wonder at your turning out such trivialities" .