triviality

Maguire and his staff are hippie idealists, wary of sullying their political mission with trivialities like record reviews.

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.

You expect a terse “fine,” so you may proceed to some other triviality like sports or the weather.

Both can be impatient at times, with little tolerance for the trivialities of modern politics.

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.