Trivialities Sentence Examples

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  • Even their trivialities have their use; their endless anecdotes respecting the personal habits of the subjects of their biographies, if valueless to the historian, are most acceptable to the archaeologist, and not unimportant to the economist and moralist.

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  • Then, selecting some of the later and less virile scholastics as victims, they ask how men could be seriously interested in their trivialities.

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  • The power of minute observation displayed is most remarkable, as also in Polite Conversation (written in 1731, published in 1738), a surprising assemblage of the vulgarities and trivialities current in ordinary talk.

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  • Machiavelli had formed for himself a prose style, equalled by no one but by Guicciardini in his minor works, which was far removed from the emptiness of the latinizing humanists and the trivialities of the Italian purists.

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  • Against the hectic, densely packed and colorful background of twenty-first century Japan, Gardiner explores the triumphs and trivialities of human life.

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  • But diving with Rupert, one soon learns to ignore such trivialities.

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  • And I suppose that I am apt to take trivialities too seriously.

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  • The atmosphere in this dining room seems a million miles from such worldly trivialities.

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  • Ego, envy, jealousy, showing off-why waste time on such trivialities?

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