bagatelle

Example Sentences

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If anything, the slowly accumulating final chord of the bagatelle could have set up the softly arpeggiated one at the start of “Twilight Way,” the first of the “Poetic Tone Pictures.”

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

But that case involved tens of thousands of dollars - a mere bagatelle compared to the monster cryptocurrency scam whose story is being told in an enthralling BBC podcast.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2019

He felt moved, with no greater desire than to create a comic bagatelle, to see if he could out-Kanye Kanye, just as the poem declares.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2018

Storm and company should rent the Rosalind Russell-Cary Grant charmer “His Girl Friday” for a clue to the manic “oomph” that could make this retro bagatelle more palatable to modern audiences.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2018

I knew his people were fairly well to do, and that the eight dollars a week I paid him were a mere bagatelle toward his living expenses.

From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Whitehead, Harold