trivial talk

Example Sentences

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Apart from the ordinary, trivial talk of civil people, they were separate, they did not speak of what was between them during the remaining two days of their stay.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Beatrix met him cordially, for she had seen him standing ignored in his corner by the piano, and she liked the friendly way in which the singer had included him in the trivial talk.

From The Dominant Strain by Edwards, H. C. (Harry C.)

In all her early letters there is an entire absence of that trivial talk about dress, parties, and the gossip of the day, so common at her age.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.

People spoke in whispers, and here, as at Blois, the conversation was a medley of serious and frivolous subjects, of grave and trivial talk.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de

But Howat was restless beyond any possibility of patiently hearing Mrs. Heydrick's cheerful, trivial talk.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph