trifles

Nathaniel Rich on how the Great War saved American fiction from such trifles.

Trifles, perhaps, but things are often not what they seem in events suffused with so much subterfuge.

While this reaction lasted he laughed away the evidence, and honestly believed he was exaggerating trifles.

It is not written for grave people who despise trifles and who always require to be instructed.

Before we left, a number of natives ventured to us in small boats with fruit, fish, and other trifles.

But these were trifles compared with the devastation committed at Bristol, when its recorder.

However, enough about eating; Paul and Digby were philosophers in their way, and had no wish to make grievances out of trifles.