trivial conversation

As Aidan shuffles, body language becomes the central voice, saying everything about his past while a trivial conversation occurs in the present.

Second, because Harry’s choice to memorialize this trivial conversation in a permanent public record is a window into his mindset when he wrote the book — a mindset that is in turn likable, naive, tortured, tender and resentful.

After about twenty minutes of trivial conversation with Aunt Consuelo and Elvio, he got up, walked over to her, and dropped a twenty-dollar bill into her lap.

Her motivations for doing so always have to do with the fact that I did not demonstrate “enough deference/respect/sympathy” toward her in some trivial conversation leading up to my visit.

During this brief and trivial conversation, I was entranced not only by his warm smile and engaging gaze, but by the vibrant deep blue of his shirt and its subtly rounded black squares.