How to Use triviality in a Sentence

triviality

noun

• We shouldn't spend time on such trivialities.
• The best way to avoid Parkinson’s law of triviality is to get the agenda right.
  — The Economist, 28 June 2018
• The higher-cause defense can seem glaringly at odds with the triviality of so much of the work.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
• That’s where the triviality of these gestures is also a weapon.
  — Moira Donegan, The Cut, 7 June 2018
• Warhol wasn’t the first to sense how modern life, as represented in the news media, teetered always on the verge of triviality.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2019
• This election has to be won on the battlefield of triviality, too.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 Oct. 2012
• This wad of bubblegum draws attention to its triviality from the top, then never does anything to fix it.
  — Charles Bramesco, Chron, 15 Mar. 2023
• In the film, Claude Lanzmann cannot reconcile the triviality of the paper and its deadly consequences.
  — Elisabeth Åsbrink, Time, 21 Apr. 2020
• The line between substance and triviality, darkness and humor, is one that she’s returned to often.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2020
• Carved out cuteness The short length might also play into that cheerful triviality.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2018
• Of course, there’s the inescapable triviality that Hamilton really was a freakin’ genius!
  — Eli Amdur, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• Dessert sounds like such a triviality when confronted by all the challenges of deep space, from keeping humans alive to repairing spacecraft.
  — Mika McKinnon, Quartz, 1 Aug. 2019
• When squabbles do arise, often over the merest triviality, they are usually settled by gestures and loud protest.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• Most of us [think] that there’s real work and everything else is self-indulgence or distraction or triviality.
  — Peter Tonguette, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Feb. 2022
• The last meaningless triviality of the patriarchy—that jewelry is a luxury to be enjoyed by women but bought only by men—was dead.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Vanities, 25 Jan. 2017
• But in some ways, its sheer triviality speaks volumes about Kavanaugh’s character.
  — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 24 Sep. 2018
• The anecdote — the triviality of the pencil, the pinprick of a particular line — is emblematic of her art, in which tension comes from small traumas and everyday talismans.
  — Janique Vigier, New York Times, 29 May 2020
• Washington is also punching that panic button after three straight losses that has the team teetering on triviality just like the Broncos are.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 31 Oct. 2021
• Davies opened the second half of the evening, featuring Bolcom’s music, with something rare: podium commentary worth hearing, as opposed to trivialities and anecdotes.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2018
• Together the three Egelunds are the sole owners of the business, one built on transforming mundane, often unglamorous household trivialities into attractive tools to be both used and admired.
  — Natalia Rachlin, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
• Banality and triviality certainly abound in the case of the big Academy Awards envelope switcheroo.
  — James B. Meigs, Slate Magazine, 3 Mar. 2017
• Sports, at best, amounted to background music, a triviality, in an America that was barely more than 100 million in population.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
• But Saunders’s critique runs deeper than the insidious triviality and loudness of major TV news, both before and after 9/11.
  — Chris Hayes, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021
• Today’s campaigns often turn on trivialities and are painless or even profitable for their promoters.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Doing the right thing for shareholders can mean getting into the nation with the world’s most internet users, whatever the price in trivialities such as playing along with an authoritarian regime.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2018
• David Barr Kirtley says the film’s portrait of a culture poisoned by triviality and narcissism invites multiple readings.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2022
• Fast object detection is no longer confined to the smiling trivialities of digital cameras.
  — Jose Fermoso, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2008
• The conversation drifted around trivialities like the weather or how longbefore some road construction would be complete.
  — Anne-Marie Yerks, Country Living, 3 Sep. 2015
• The play’s thorough triviality and lack of respect for its contemporary Victorian morals bristles with wit and clever observations.
  — Jim Rutter, Philly.com, 6 May 2018
• To him, the calm Momo—who sits quietly while others bicker over trivialities or rush through their work robotically—is the embodiment of a mature Buddhist practitioner.
  — Giulia Pines, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2018

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