trivial talk

Example Sentences

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The sincerity of this expression stood out in the trivial talk.

From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson

To the most trivial talk he gave the attraction of his own character.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John

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)

In all her early letters there is an entire absence of that trivial talk about dress, parties, and the gossip of the day, so common at her age.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.