bagatelle
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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
“Ma Belle, My Beauty” may be a mere bagatelle, but it’s a diverting and attractive one.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021
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
It may be imagined that we accepted the ordinary conditions of glacier travelling as an agreeable relief, and that that which at another time might have seemed formidable we treated as the veriest bagatelle.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward
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