trivial talk
Example Sentences
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He had grown to hate soiled hands and coarse clothes, and the trivial talk of people who only lived for trifles.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
Apart from the ordinary, trivial talk of civil people, they were separate, they did not speak of what was between them during the remaining two days of their stay.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Sometimes a kind of awful astonishment would come over me as I listened to his trivial talk, and heard him make plans for a future that was never to be.
From Vendetta: a story of one forgotten by Corelli, Marie
But Howat was restless beyond any possibility of patiently hearing Mrs. Heydrick's cheerful, trivial talk.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph
This trivial talk in a tavern had an immense influence on him in his later action; as though there had really been in it something preordained, some guiding hint....
From Crime and Punishment by Garnett, Constance
