trivial talk

The sincerity of this expression stood out in the trivial talk.

To the most trivial talk he gave the attraction of his own character.

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

How could we achieve all this ordinary trivial talk of everyday in the gloom of this romantic adventure?

Here was he, the busiest of men, painfully contriving a spare hour; was he to spend it in three-cornered trivial talk?