triviality
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Some of her patients apologized for the seeming triviality of their traumas compared with the horrors she survived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
“The era’s descriptors of femininity — sweetness, triviality, softness and indulgence — all became associated with chocolate,” CNN’s Casey Barber wrote.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
He also took aim at the newspaper articles submitted as evidence of illicit newsgathering, saying they offered a "breathtaking level of triviality".
From BBC ● May 12, 2023
Waters tackled big topics: “Time,” “Money,” war, the inevitability of death, the triviality of daily life, the importance of seizing the moment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Lesson on lesson they’ve suffered through, recognizing, more profoundly each time, their indignity, shame, triviality.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
All that matters in this moment is one of life's most edifying trivialities: snooker.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Still, it would be hard to find another writer who brings Ms. Gaul’s particular strengths to what could have been merely esoteric culinary-history trivialities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
He sounded quite irritated that they were asking him about such trivialities when he is the one who has world leaders quaking in their boots as he re-makes the whole world in his image.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025
Much of the hearing was devoted to trivialities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
Of such trivialities are moments made; and hours built; and years constructed; and ruins, finally, remain, with ornaments half-seen beneath the grasses.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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