triviality
Example Sentences
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Some of her patients apologized for the seeming triviality of their traumas compared with the horrors she survived.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
He also took aim at the newspaper articles submitted as evidence of illicit newsgathering, saying they offered a "breathtaking level of triviality".
From BBC • May 12, 2023
Sentimentality about the power of cinema — to raise awareness, expand empathy, confront the truth, change the world — mirrors a cynicism that insists on cinema’s triviality.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2022
This is not glamorous, but I do think, in its triviality, and in its, let's say, almost monstrosity, we can relate to that.
From Salon • Oct. 5, 2021
Lesson on lesson they’ve suffered through, recognizing, more profoundly each time, their indignity, shame, triviality.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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