triviality

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.

Lee uses heroin to escape the feeling of triviality, but when Allerton warms up to him, Lee’s focus shifts to a new drug: yagé.

She honored those traces even as she ironically nailed their indefensible triviality.