Then you see that no one is so trivial or debased but that in him is a spark of something to excite compassion.
And gradually all the life that had seemed so important to me began to seem rather trivial and vulgar.
His memory was going over the most trivial incidents connected with Natalie, as if every look of hers, every word she had uttered, was now become something inexpressibly precious.
Quick to take advantage of opportunity, the newspapers poured out edition after edition, seizing upon the most trivial incidents as headline-pegs upon which to hang their ingenious vapourings.
This levelling of the bayonet on such trivial provocation was too tremendous, so I made up my mind one evening to try myself.
Consequently, Prim was thunderstruck when France suddenly turned round and seized upon this trivial pretext for a breach of the peace.
Lady Jardine has always seemed to me a rather triviallittle person.
But still, it was apparent, the infection of the season was working in him; for these trivial bits of her personality had become overwhelmingly sweet and wonderful.
She tried to fix her thoughts on the trivial memories and forecasts that danced in her mind.
This was an apparently trivial occasion on which to feel that it was a contest that she had inaugurated between them; but he did feel it.
I have a very shallow and trivial nature, like a stream that sparkles pleasantly enough over a pebbly bottom, but in which no boat or man can swim.
The first piece, let us suppose, stands in its accustomed place, and the owner often thinks in a trivial way of having it restored.
They were both men and women, who seemed--I can express it in no other way--to be in the possession of a secret so great that it made everything else trivial and indifferent to them.
I was led to perceive that I had been living life with an entirely distorted standard of values; I had been ambitious, covetous, eager for comfort and respect, absorbed in trivial dreams and childish fancies.
If the dabbler wash him off this slide into his tube of water again, this trivial creature may go on feeding and growing and dividing, and presently be thrown away to wider waters, and so escape to live .
Trivial things in their way, you may say, yet each levying so much toll on my brain and nervous system, and demanding incessant vigilance and activity.
What trivial arguments there are for a uniform spelling I must leave the reader to discover.
The idea of sexual relation in the first passage, and the trivial daintiness of the second (with which cf.
No doubt this event appeared most trivial to the travelers in a passing train.
For a long time past she had seen her mother anxious and troubled over matters which now seemed trivial in the extreme; yet this blow which had almost crushed her own courage but restored Mrs. Trent's.
All of which trivial matter combined to the making of momentous matter, momentous in the future for Susan and David.
They seemed strangely trivial and unmeaning compared to the exhilarating present.
She always felt with Courant that she would be swept aside as a trivial thing if she lost her dignity.
They berated the men for quarreling over a matter so trivial as the employment of a single non-union man, who was, to say the most, merely an experimenter.
Patty was not jealous, neither was John; but something had entered into their lives that gave to all trivial things a ponderous outline.
More trivial things than a forgotten pair of gloves have brought about death and division.
In cases of newly added and comparatively trivial characters, with regard to which reversal of selection is not likely to take place (e.
The most trivial incident, in such periods of tension, may plunge a community into irretrievable disaster.
A few trivial generalities which justify themselves only by the most careful consideration of their numerous exceptions.
In such cases a very trivial remark or even a gesture will fire one of these loaded ideas.
The second social danger is the tendency to overload and level down every great human incentive in the pursuit of relatively trivial ends.
One of our social desiderata, it seems to me, is the protection of the great springs of human action from destructive exploitation for selfish, commercial, or other trivial ends.
Nothing would seem to be easier or more trivial than a few words uttered by a child in any language.
And there were thetrivial "personals" so dear to the heart of a country paper editor.
Do not force me to refuse you such a trivial thing.
Mechanically she sat down near him, failing to answer some trivial question from Mrs. Palma, and bowing in an absent preoccupied manner to the remainder of the guests.
For a half-hour they rolled along the magnificent Avenue, and only casual observations upon weather, passing equipages, and similar trivial topics, afforded Regina time to compose her perturbed thoughts.
Just now he is at a farm on Staten Island, and I am sorry I cannot gratify you in such a trivial matter.
The trivial Present fell back into insignificance and oblivion before the iron domination of some stern memory, that touched with ruthless hand, his tenderest affection, that humbled his pride, and baffled his indomitable will.
Madamoiselle's choice in the most trivial matters is of importance.
His trivial matters were an author's compliance with his bookseller's taste, which is always that of the public.
They carried this refining temper into the most trivial circumstances, when a court was to be the theatre, and monarchs and their representatives the actors.
When all is said and done, the only charge you can bring against them is a trivial one.
The man darted off, secure in the belief that no one who could afford to give away twenty francs for such trivial information would be likely to pocket a cauliflower.
He visited a prominent jeweller in the Rue de la Paix, and, after making some trivial purchases, led the conversation to the question of diamonds.
Trivial matter, of course, in connection with becoming a mining engineer, but apparently necessary.
But in no instance did I linger long, for if the two ladies spoke at all it was on trivial subjects, and in such tones as indicated that neither their passions nor any particular interests were engaged.
