bagatelle

In a summer dominated by a retelling of history’s most well-known monster-plagued sea voyage, “The Devil’s Mouth” may seem like a mere bagatelle, a non-Imax drop in the brine ‘n’ blood-splattered hero’s journey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

A bagatelle the length of a pop song, Beethoven’s trifle is recognizable from the start: a wobble between E and D sharp that gives way to a tune you’ve heard virtually everywhere.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2021

But that case involved tens of thousands of dollars - a mere bagatelle compared to the monster cryptocurrency scam whose story is being told in an enthralling BBC podcast.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2019

In 2008, he made his first feature, “Medicine for Melancholy,” a winsome bagatelle starring Wyatt Cenac as a San Francisco hipster who embarks on a fleeting romance when a one-night-stand turns into a 24-hour walk-and-talkathon.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2018

It is scarcely too much to say that his ostentatious preference for the bagatelle was a real, and not in the least affected fact.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne