triviality

Example Sentences

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He elucidated a Law of Triviality, which holds that the time spent on any item of an official agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved.

From Time Magazine Archive

Poor Bailly, how thy serenely beautiful Philosophizing, with its soft moonshiny clearness and thinness, ends in foul thick confusion—of Presidency, Mayorship, diplomatic officiality, rabid Triviality, and the throat of everlasting Darkness!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

Poor Bailly, how thy serenely beautiful Philosophising, with its soft moonshiny clearness and thinness, ends in foul thick confusion—of Presidency, Mayorship, diplomatic Officiality, rabid Triviality, and the throat of everlasting Darkness!

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

They mark a special moment in the vital growth of language, if only by revealing the Charm of Triviality, and they stood among a crowd—Defoe, Temple, Swift, and the rest—who at various points surpassed them.

From Impressions and Comments by Ellis, Havelock

Triviality destroys at once robustness of thought and delicacy of feeling.

From The Right to Privacy by Brandeis, Louis D.