He has described himself, his tastes and pursuits, his thoughts and convictions, with perfect frankness and candour, and without any of the triviality or affectation of literary egotism.
There won't, at all events, be pictures," he paused by the triviality to remark.
The socialist bases human society, with its motives mixed with triviality and passion, on an invisible community, an ideal humanity.
He may win the whole of infinity for his own, and set himself free from the triviality of the merely human without losing himself in an alien world.
If there is anything that Shakespeare hated with a hatred somewhat disproportionate to the triviality of the matter, a hatred which finds expression in every stage of his career, it is the use of rouge and false hair.
And he rises, ere long, above this world of triviality and make-believe to the true height of his nature.
Any other triviality would have done as well to cloak the sharp pain that swept him, and to lead his listener astray.
They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
It made Miriam bitter to think that he should throw away his soul for this flippant traffic of triviality with Clara.
But she did not suffer so much, because she despised the triviality of these other people.
It debauches the public mind, in my opinion, much more by its triviality than by its vulgarity or grossness.
Sensationalism and want of reticence will in the end cure themselves, but trivialityis a defect which grows by what it feeds on.
This reporter honoured me next day with a headline of such magnificent triviality that I cannot refrain from quoting it: "Editor Strachey says New York skins Venice!
Novelists, painters, sculptors, musicians, are all alike invited to make compromises with triviality and absurdity which invariably retard the development of the idea and of the technique.
That oppressive plus oftriviality and formalism places an impassable gulf between Jesus and the Jewish teachers.
Or was the terrible plus of Pharisaic formalism and triviality burned away from Paul when the light shone around him on the way to Damascus and he fell at the feet of the great Teacher?
He consummates the triumph of will, while their reigning mood is grave or reckless protest against impotence of will, the little worth of common aims, the fretting triviality of common rules.
The other features, though slight and irregular, were redeemed from triviality by the stamp of gravity and intellectual preoccupation in his face and bearing.
Amongst those who study these phenomena there are many who see in the triviality of the greater part of the messages a strong presumption against the spiritualist hypothesis.
When love bridged the gulf between the two, and the hermit and the householder met, the seeming triviality of the finite and the seeming emptiness of the infinite alike disappeared.
Is this uplifting of the cover of triviality from the everyday world, I wondered, due to some magic in the evening light?
And that aspect has nothing of triviality in it, it is full of beauty and joy.
It is not sin so much as triviality which hides God.
There is the triviality to which the working people are forced by the cares of this life, who all day and every day have to think of the bread which perisheth, while their souls starve for lack of knowledge which endureth.
It seems Hunt would have liked the talk of Endymion and Peona to come nearer his own key of simpering triviality in Rimini.
He managed to gasp out something about his surprise and the triviality of the whole affair of the candy.
I recollect that these proceedings did not seem to me imposing, and Bakunin's reiterated opinion about their triviality gradually became more comprehensible.
She was dressed in a muslin tea-gown over shot green silk, and was conscious of her triviality as she stood before the tall, spare ecclesiastic.
This pious and kindly word is easily reconciled in practice with a just appreciation of the essential triviality and impertinence of the bird.
But the sudden flash of interest in a triviality and its abrupt cessation remind one more of lunacy than of sane humanity.
They sit) Regarded in this light one sees at once the triviality of hats.
POET If I could bring my thoughts to contemplate so absurd a thing as a hat for any length of time no doubt I could think of a plan, but the very triviality of the theme seems to scare them away.
Waldo d'Avigdor who masks with complete fashionable triviality a Hebraic immutability of passion tried in a more ironical and bitter service than his Father Jacob.
It may be very unfair to women that the toil and triviality of potato-peeling should be seen through a glamour of romance; but the glamour is quite as certain a fact as the potatoes.
The whole was saved from triviality only by the controlling lines of the architecture which framed it.
The last movement more especially is full of such calm and melodious beauty that we feel lifted above the vanity and triviality of so much that has gone before, and left with an impression of heartfelt gaiety and satisfaction.
Bach, had degenerated into all the triviality and insipidity which a slavish adherence to form could produce.
