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Example sentences for: trivial
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The economics articles, while a good idea, have proven fairly trivial and even pedestrian.
Early in his article--which he has called "Escaping Picasso: The Great Master That Never Was"--the author reminds us that there was a time when he devoted himself to Picasso studies, how the most trivial academic revelation once caused him to run off "to a nearby bar to drink my very first vodka on the rocks.
Its boudoir is an entire forest, symbolizing Nature itself, where mortals and fairies, regals and bumpkins, make love and war, where passion becomes arbitrary and paramours interchangeable; and its last act is a riotously bungled tragedy-within-a-comedy (a celebratory performance by a troupe of "rude mechanicals") that's an ironic comment on the trivial pursuits that have preceded it.
Precisely which uses are permitted and which are not is far from a trivial matter.
To take one of the more trivial examples, Schoenfeld writes: "Mainstream scholarship on the Nazi genocide, we are being told on every side, is not so much mainstream as 'malestream.