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Triviality in sentence

14 examples of Triviality in a sentence

But I shouldn't have to bother my wife with that kind of triviality.
It's really just for the sort of joy of its own triviality.
If you contrast HAL's behavior with the triviality of the people on the spaceship, you can see what's written between the lines.
But another, more salient realization that comes to light is the triviality of our own self-importance and self-consciousness.
Gentle and genial film seems to have been overlooked as a triviality...and to be fair the narrative is a bit tenuous and lightweight as drama....but I feel the simple wonder and joy of the scenes depicting the first impact of a new art on an alien and sceptical society have a radiance and naturalness which capture the century long romance between cinema and audience better than any film in years.
I suppose if the tone of relentless superficiality and triviality had been sustained throughout 100% of the film, it might have worked as a long sardonic comedy about a particularly shallow, worthless and despicable post-'68 milieu.
The triviality of the scene was breathtaking.
The odium that emanates from the bitter quarrels between critical schools and movements in the arts, the voluminous triviality of so much that is published point to a Byzantine afternoon.
The challenge will be to manage the trade-off between transparency and triviality.
Do we spend the next century wallowing in triviality?
Aron wrote cool, sleek prose about the most heated geopolitical conflicts, while Sartre could turn any triviality into an existential crisis.
In the presence of this old friend and of the tragedy which girt him round, the veil of triviality and affectation had been rent, and I felt all my gratitude towards him deepening for the first time into affection whilst I watched his pale, anxious face, and the eager hops which shone in his eyes as he awaited his friend's explanation.
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.
"Yet are you not capricious, sir?""To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither souls nor hearts--when they open to me a perspective of flatness, triviality, and perhaps imbecility, coarseness, and ill-temper: but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break--at once supple and stable, tractable and consistent--I am ever tender and true.""Had you ever experience of such a character, sir?