triviality
Example Sentences
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He elucidated a Law of Triviality, which holds that the time spent on any item of an official agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved.
From Time Magazine Archive
Triviality destroys at once robustness of thought and delicacy of feeling.
From The Right to Privacy by Brandeis, Louis D.
They mark a special moment in the vital growth of language, if only by revealing the Charm of Triviality, and they stood among a crowd—Defoe, Temple, Swift, and the rest—who at various points surpassed them.
From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock
Poor Bailly, how thy serenely beautiful Philosophising, with its soft moonshiny clearness and thinness, ends in foul thick confusion—of Presidency, Mayorship, diplomatic Officiality, rabid Triviality, and the throat of everlasting Darkness!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Triviality or lack of permanent consequence is as objectionable in the one case as in the other.
From The Nature of Goodness by Palmer, George Herbert
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