triviality

Vronsky had several times already, though not so resolutely as now, tried to bring her to consider their position, and every time he had been confronted by the same superficiality and triviality with which she met his appeal now.

Neither had success as yet affected their boyish simplicity and the frankness of old frontier habits; they played with their new-found riches with the naive delight of children, and rehearsed their glowing future with the importance and triviality of school-boys.

And the triviality faded from their faces, though it left something behind--the knowledge that they never could be parted because their love was rooted in common things.

Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and smiled at me as she again went by.

"The fact is," said D'Artagnan, "if men are punished for imprudence and triviality, this poor king deserves punishment.

No one could have worked harder than she, nor with more sincerity; she believed in herself with all her heart; but it was plain that self-confidence meant very little, all his friends had it, Miguel Ajuria among the rest; and Philip was shocked by the contrast between the Spaniard's heroic endeavour and the triviality of the thing he attempted.

Casaubon would support such triviality. His manners, she thought, were very dignified; the set of his iron-gray hair and his deep eye-sockets made him resemble the portrait of Locke.

There is an apparent triviality in the action with the scissors, but your discernment perceives at once that there is a design in it which makes it eminently worthy of a large-headed, long-limbed young man; for you see that Lucy wants the scissors, and is compelled, reluctant as she may be, to shake her ringlets back, raise her soft hazel eyes, smile playfully down on the face that is so very nearly on a level with her knee, and holding out her little shell-pink palm, to say,--

And then my eyes became opened to the inwardness of things and speeches the triviality of which had been so baffling and tiresome.

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Eventually, it was decided that the matter of the name was a mere triviality and the members should move on to more important matters.

He covers the foundations of Augustine's moral empiricism: truth, love, and sin; scientific philosophy and first-person confession; against autonomy: ought and can; the state: persecution, war, justice, and regret; against political panaceas; Utilitarians and Kantians: a parallel journey to triviality; rights-theory; the inevitable irrelevance of most contemporary theology; and Austin's brag: conventional relativism, nihilism, or the Catholic tradition.