| 单词 | trivial |
| 例句 | Yet, however much the tone of the article suggested otherwise, even if true, the allegations were trivial. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew that Hershey’s experiments were not trivial and that from then on everyone was going to place more emphasis on DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But radium destroys any cells it encounters, and patients who’d taken it for trivial problems began dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z When one works out the likely numbers involved, one finds that this effect would make only a trivial contribution to the Americas’ 5,000-year lag in food-producing villages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I got rid of it,” she says with a wave of her hand like it’s the most trivial thing on planet Earth. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Or she does remember them, but in a minor way, as if remembering a game, or a single prank, a single trivial secret, of the kind girls tell and then forget. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z How, how, how could I get my hands on more money before I was caught and sent to jail for some trivial misdemeanor? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “So I time every single one of our training sessions, no matter how small or trivial it might seem. Got that, wild card?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As he does his rounds, he makes sure everyone is occupied with their particular trivial pursuits. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z What trivial thing was I doing while they divided the map beneath my feet? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s down-to-earth, it’s simple, it’s untrue, and it’s familiar enough and trivial enough to be understood and loved by our greedy, nervous, illiterate sponsors.’” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z What made the incident particularly frightening was Holmes’s manner as he made the offer—“about the same manner one would expect from a friend who was asking you the most trivial question,” Bowman said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was the history of the family, written by Melquíades, down to the most trivial details, one hundred years ahead of time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “But if you ever need me—not for any trivial reason, of course—drop me a line and I’ll manage to see you.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw them toiling, saw them suffer and grow gray about things that to him did not seem worth the price—for money, small pleasures and trivial honors. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Her entries consisted of artistic manifestos, trivial complaints, character sketches and simple accounts of her day which increasingly shaded off into fantasy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As if it was trivial for us, a frill, a whim. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The letter opened with the normal trivial catching-up jokes, but it soon became more serious. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It follows, not only in a trivial sense but also I believe in a very deep psychological sense, that war is murder writ large. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every happening in the neighborhood, no matter how trivial, became my business. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet Clear Lake is typical of a large and growing number of situations where solution of an obvious and often trivial problem creates a far more serious but conveniently less tangible one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I enjoy pestering the girls in this minor, trivial way: it shows I am not like them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He asked me to decide on the most trivial matters, as if he were baiting me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mean to her? It will mean she has lost her pet tiger. That’s all. She is Caesar’s daughter. She must learn to sustain such trivial losses.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Plane crashes are much more likely to be the result of an accumulation of minor difficulties and seemingly trivial malfunctions. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But I must say I am at some loss as to why you should be so concerned with these most trivial of errors.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But gradually we warmed to one another again and spent several hours poking about a stagnant pond and playing a game of nineholes with stones, and in other pursuits too trivial to recount. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Sula, like always, was incapable of making any but the most trivial decisions. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They were hard to tell apart; their emotional tone seemed always low, their talk trivial. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z This may seem trivial, but there’s one incident I’ve never forgiven her for. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Academics in the softer fields dress up the trivial and obvious with the trappings of scientific sophistication, hoping to bamboozle their audiences with highfalutin gobbledygook. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This feat requires what the early-twentieth-century American writer Sinclair Lewis called a “willingness to sift the sanctified lies,” a chore that is hard enough when the “lie” is trivial. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Captain John Palliser, traveling through the same lands as Fidler six decades later, lamented the Indians’ “disastrous habit of setting the prairie on fire for the most trivial and worse than useless reasons.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z These errors may be trivial in themselves, Mr Stevens, but you must yourself realize their larger significance.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “People spend so much time on trivial things they forget to look at the ocean. Look at it, Mexico.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Though long-distance travel in antiquity was never a trivial undertaking, a summer voyage to Egypt would have been a pleasant journey. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z After several hours the commandant’s assistant calls him in and sets down his ballpoint and looks across his desk as though Werner is one among a vast series of trivial problems he must put right. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In that moment of trivial misunderstanding and profound insight, I felt my throat twisted by unsounded grief. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So many talents, so many different attractions, so much money, elegance, and beauty on display, but—and it’s a trivial observation—this multitude of desiderata is inevitably spread out among a large group of people. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By nature Art Moran was an uneasy person, nervous in the face of even trivial encounters. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But the significance of all those species of small domestic animals was trivial compared with that of the big ones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Martin had started sharing what his life was really like with me—which made all my friends' high dramas seem trivial. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Over cakes Francis was ready to talk about trivial things, while I quietly thought how splendid it would be if I could someday live in the style of a Magdalen don. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z This is the death of MarVs and my usual trivial relationship. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z All my life I had done nothing but feel and cultivate my feelings; all their lives they had done nothing but strive for petty goals, the trivial material prizes of American life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Okay, these were mostly trivial things, but I got more and more irritated with her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z All such news, important and trivial, was carried to the thirty, meeting secretly at the Green Dragon. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Questioning these trivial facts, and my ability to grasp them, allowed me to doubt whether anything I remembered had happened at all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The risk of arrest and imprisonment seemed trivial compared to facing my father at the end of the day. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The government of Russia under the Czars could not be bothered to investigate so trivial an event, which, after all, had occurred far away, among the backward Tungus people of Siberia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The concepts of inside and outside became trivial once I wanted them to be. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There may be cases where profound changes can be made by relatively trivial adjustments. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This is what these "trivial errors" as you call them really signify and if you do not heed them, it will not be long before your father commits an error of major proportions.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z No head injury is too trivial to ignore. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And I suppose that's when I get angry over some trivial little thing and leave. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “It will be very largely distributed throughout foreign countries, and is one of those trivial things by which these people will judge the artistic standard of the Fair.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Quite trivial in themselves - at least so far. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z We typically regard our snap judgment as best on immediate trivial questions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Memphis was not a small town like Jackson; it was urban and I felt that no one would hold the trivial trouble I had had in Jackson against me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked of trivial things in lofty tones. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This was no trivial setback, no mere snub; it was, to Bobby, the greatest insult he could imagine. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z During the ride back north, I thought about the colonels letter, or rather, about my own pleasure in these trivial alterations. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At first he did true biology at the Strangeways Laboratory, but this was obviously trivial and two years later he moved over to the Cavendish, where he joined Perutz and Kendrew. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Hence, our daily lives were so bound up with trivial objectives that to capitulate when challenged was tantamount to surrendering the right to life itself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If you look closely at epidemic ideas or messages, as often as not the elements that make them sticky turn out to be as small and as seemingly trivial as Wunderman s gold box. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I hate that there are things—trivial things, like why she needed a newspaper clipping about a cookbook author who’d be visiting the library—that I never knew to ask Lucy about. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And had I not been born in the South, her trivial act would have been as unnoticed by me as it was by her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All these little simple, foolish, but tremendously strong, vital, passionate urges and desires no longer seemed trivial to Siddhartha. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like: 'these errors may be trivial in themselves, but you must yourself realize their larger significance'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z At the sideshow, a scruffy carnival barker was shouting through a megaphone, promising glimpses of “the most shocking errors of nature allowed on view by law” for a trivial fee. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z For an example of a trivial sense, suppose the defenders of Ptolemaic astronomy had responded to the threat posed by Copernicanism by simply renaming the sun ‘the earth’, and the earth ‘the sun’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The fact that there are now women playing for symphony orchestras is not a trivial change. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He should know she was not going to be beholden to the neighbors for anything so trivial as her own comfort. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The argument was based on something so trivial it didn’t seem worth wasting a single word on it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “I really don’t know why I bored you with this trivial anecdote.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Money, time, and energy squandered on the detailed analysis of the trivial. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It blends in with all the others; it was some trivial occasion. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z No courses; looks up many things in Knaur’s Encyclopedia and Lexicon; likes to read detective stories, medical books and love stories, exciting or trivial. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In the past this would have been a trivial enough remark, a kind of scholarly speculation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time I saw this longing of mine as trivial and absurd, because I’d taken such magazines lightly enough once. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z An alteration in calutron design that seemed trivial in Berkeley could set off an avalanche of costly and time-consuming changes downstream at Oak Ridge. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Doubtless I didn't want to clutter your executive day with trivial housewifery.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z While I was entertaining these trivial thoughts, a momentous and terrible event was unfolding close by. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It is true one or two errors have been noticeable recently in the discharging of his duties, but these are in every case very trivial in nature.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Remember the Bicycle Adventure when I told Julie all my fears—they seem so trivial now. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I should say that these errors have all been without exception quite trivial in themselves. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z However, that translates into an average expansion of only 8 miles per year, a trivial feat for a hunter-gatherer likely to cover that distance even within a single day’s normal foraging. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My comrades believed this was a trivial matter and the negative consequences of resistance would outweigh any benefits. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Digging, bending over, and bagging samples were trivial tasks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I became forgetful, concentrating too much upon trivial tasks. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Apart from food and sleep, they found time for play, aimless and trivial, in the white sand by the bright water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Other people thought it was about female slavery, others that it was a stereotyping of women in negative and trivial domestic roles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In trivial cases as well as in difficult ones, mathematical applications can be a tricky affair, requiring as much human warmth and nuance as any other endeavor. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He sounded angry, as if it were beneath his dignity to carry out such a trivial task. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Observations about canals, trees, and tomato-growing habits appear as trivia, not because they are trivial but because Mount refuses to pause over any of them long enough to explain their significance. How England Made the English by Harry Mount - review 2012-05-18T21:55:01Z We don’t need minute analysis of lackluster performances of trivial songs in each recording session. Review | How Bing Crosby bounced back from personal and professional malaise 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z As Ms. Steiber can testify, this is not a trivial question. Looking Smart on the Pedals 2013-07-10T20:56:39Z “I recall so many trivial things,” Banville proclaims, “and forget so many very momentous ones.” An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z It said that in light of the tragic death of the groom-to-be's mother, this special but ultimately trivial party will not be held. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband in a failing marriage needs to reconcile actions with reality 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It may sound trivial, but what you wear really matters. The Bedazzling of the American Gymnast 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z And for them, It's Kind of a Funny Story is not likely to seem tasteless or trivial. It's Kind of a Funny Story Review 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z As wartime suffering goes, this might seem relatively trivial, but suffering isn’t always comparative, especially for those in distress. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z It's a great movie just because the people seem so ordinary and their lives so trivial. David Thomson on Claude Chabrol 2010-09-16T22:25:00Z I’ve had somewhat trivial addictions; I think we’ve all had things that have grabbed hold of us in a way we weren’t really expecting. Ryan Reynolds: from buff buffoon to Hollywood heavyweight 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Even his most trivial works – televisions turned into robot aunts and uncles, cameras aimed at eggs so we can watch them like passing phases of the moon – have a benign and almost innocent air. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z These tiny verbal cues might seem trivial, but it appears to be crucial; this is how Trevor Noah refuses to engage with the way the American media typically handles racism. “I don’t strive to be offensive”: Trevor Noah tells Salon how his “Daily Show” will be different from — and similar to — Jon Stewart’s 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z It wasn’t an idle or trivial thing for me, undertaking a book like this. Q. and A.: Kevin Powers and Ben Fountain, National Book Award Nominees 2012-11-13T17:21:36Z The only difference is a trivial one: I am ashamed of my disability. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Turns out, President Trump and I aren’t total opposites 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z From 1981 through 1993, Wapner served as an arbitrator on "The People's Court," resolving disputes that were usually trivial, with both parties in the litigation agreeing to abide by his ruling. 'People's Court' judge Joseph Wapner dies at 97: reports 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Not that what happens — first love, family trouble, stray encounters with the weirdness of the world — feels trivial to Oliver. | 'Submarine': Coming of Age, and Then to Terms 2011-06-02T21:46:17Z But, she said this week, her husband shrugged off things as trivial as money. Arakawa, Artist Who Tried to Halt Aging, Dies at 73 2010-05-20T05:15:00Z There are somewhat trivial examples in marketing and fads and much more important examples such as gender roles and expectations, family structures etc. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty. Sophie Hunger: Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere 2011-07-20T12:03:02Z The approach is relentlessly trivial and strenuously contemporary. On Tabloid Tours of Manhattan, the View Is Tawdry From Every Seat 2013-05-30T14:57:37Z Whether it’s at school, on a sports team, or in romance, girls will encounter challenges in relationship that are trivial or intractable. What Girls Really Need to Know About Friendships 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Encampment residents police conflicts themselves to keep authorities away, while shelter residents may do something as trivial as agreeing on a TV schedule to avoid conflict in an environment that often fosters it. A new way to view homelessness: Not as a problem but as a culture 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z The series adopts the American dream not only in message but in form, delivering a blockbuster ruled by dream logic more than trivial things such as physics. How the Fast and Furious franchise used cars to symbolize the American dream 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Worries about her being too feminine or too masculine are trivial. Wonder Woman Director: 'Why Do White Men Get to Be Universal?' 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z I also thought this was in some ways self-inflicted; playing the anthem before every trivial game had bred this indifference and disrespect. I stood up for the national anthem by sitting down for it 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Supervisors are recorded threatening reprisals against the officers, some of whom are then disciplined for trivial infractions, given undesirable assignments and blocked when they seek promotion. Review: ‘Crime+Punishment’ Is a Tough Documentary About Police Abuses 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Opera effort to appropriate ancient Greece was trivial in comparison. Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo,' the first modern opera, has lessons for digital age 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Photographs seem at once durable and fragile, trivial and powerful, and contemplation of their place in the world leads naturally to musings on loss, mortality — even apocalypse. Riff: On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later 2011-05-08T05:30:17Z To follow up childbirth with a "trivial trinket" seems "very shallow, stupid and insipid," Loen said. Push presents for mom: easy bling or heartfelt? 2011-06-20T17:33:09Z The film’s impressively plotted psychological feats are nonetheless rendered insubstantial, inconsequential, even trivial by their utter dissociation from the characters’ temperament, motives, and inner life—from character as such. The Vacuum-Sealed Efficiency of “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z “It’s like ‘Groundhog Day,’ except if the groundhog kept getting his head cut off,” he said, a joke that manages to be at once trivial and brutal. Bill Maher’s Charlie Hebdo mess: Last night’s “Jimmy Kimmel” revealed why we need studio audiences 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z He parroted Nazi talking points about Germany’s “Jewish problem” and dismissed Hitler’s increasingly violent anti-Semitism as trivial. Uncovering Charles Lindbergh’s Secret Lives 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “The Palace Papers” is an apt title for what sometimes seems like a briefcase stuffed to overflowing with such conjecture, plus clippings, transcripts, observations, wry asides, literary references and trivial tidbits. Tina Brown Catches Up With Royal Intrigue in ‘The Palace Papers’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z But these days, even trivial subjects spark good conversations and even inspiration. Scene In/Seen In ... Athens: Musing About Art and the World Beyond 2011-01-14T12:00:05Z This triple bill, however, not only proved depressing and trivial, it also charted a process of flashy thrills and artistic deterioration. Mikhailovsky Ballet, Full of Stars at Lincoln Center 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z A montage at the start of the film features inane chatter from entertainment hosts and radio d.j.s—the sort of idle, trivial taunting that every superstar contends with. Taylor Swift’s Netflix Special Is the End of an Era 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z And yet the indignities that befall him seem fairly trivial compared with what goes on in the present-day world of Dillon, Tex., rendered so poignantly on “Friday Night Lights.” Forget the Downturn; Punish the Lazybones 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z The logarithmic system ensures you’re not matched with someone who just happened to share lots of trivial things in common with you but was miles away on the important stuff. You are more than a sexual fetish — but online dating sites might not think so 2014-03-15T20:30:00Z What I am interested in is to portray bodies that are extremely trivial. From Hitchcock to the Macarena, "Titane" director on how monstrosity and humor feed her body horror 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z That we now are allowed that volume of space, that massive amount of space to be allocated to a Black person in a hoodie might seem trivial. Kehinde Wiley on Protests’ Results: ‘I’m Not Impressed Yet’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Klausner also writes for the addictive Fuse game show “Billy on the Street,” which shares one of her main strategies: treating the trivial with apocalyptic gravity. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z To publish as a woman was to be categorized as trivial, sentimental, concerned with life’s petty surface questions rather than its deep truths. The “Unmasking” of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z I wasn’t expecting much under sheltering-at-home conditions, but the gala was trivial — and sad. Can Ballet Come Alive Online? 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Expressions of goodness are never trivial or incidental in my writing. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Austen’s novels, for example, are littered with dry asides about the inconveniences borne by smart men who, “from some unaccountable bias in favor of beauty,” fetter themselves to trivial women. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z "I regard human beings as a trivial accident, which would be regrettable if it were not so unimportant," he said, and he would never consent to being called a humanist. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z I whined for several detailed paragraphs about the cancellation of something that was plainly trivial relative to everything else going on, but very important to me. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: When others had it so much worse, it can feel bad to feel bad about loss 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Like I said earlier, I don't think movie-goers care about the fifth biggest opening weekend in history – it's far too trivial. Iron Man 2 rockets to US No 1 2010-05-10T09:08:00Z Storing spices in coordinated glass jars and color coordinating dozens of sprinkles containers may seem trivial. Social media "pantry porn" becomes all the rage 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z And, is anything ever “trivial” when it leaves you feeling bad? Carolyn Hax: Boyfriend won’t come over after work; she’s tired of his excuses 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z We’re too numb, dumb, powerless and indifferent, too busy fighting trivial battles. ‘Don’t Look Up’ Review: Tick, Tick, Kablooey 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z We see her measuring her old, trivial anxieties against this huge new thing, this fear, as she begins to realize that what you’re afraid of is part of who you are. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z To the haughty defenders of modernism, Adams was a trivial boor. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z Across town, Harris Teeter still triumphantly posts the trivial fat content of its ground beef, the way cigarette companies used to advertise low tar. Citizens of the world: Don’t let the food cowards win. 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z It was probably not the most sensible time to be doing a private outpatients’ session – the problems I was dealing with in my room off Sloane Square all seemed pointless and trivial. David Nott: ‘They told me my chances of leaving Aleppo alive were 50/50’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Though these fights seem trivial now, their lasting impact was devastating. How a long-ago trek on the Pacific Crest Trail is helping me survive in quarantine 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z "The facts may seem trivial, but it's the procedure he's concerned about," Salvatore said. Hepburn house owner loses court fight in Conn. 2013-01-07T20:18:15Z Yet there is no whole without a vast accumulation of seemingly trivial details. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Her passionately expressed political views, subjected to Callahan’s skeptical eye, are revealed as, however offensive, mostly trivial and silly. ‘Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave,’ by Dan Callahan Her reply: the savings are trivial, and Clorox is a brand, so it is more invested in its reputation. This Life: Take Back the Trash 2011-03-04T19:17:02Z Of even greater concern should be local changes that may seem trivial yet have a huge impact on our living conditions and economies. From global warming to fluoride: Why do people deny science? 2013-05-25T20:30:00Z “He makes you see how trivial the things of this world are, and how expansive the self is, once you unhook it from flat-screen TV’s and iPhones.” Mark Strand, 80, Dies; Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z I found the three pieces superficially agreeable in stage manners and dance impulse, but trivial as composition and in expression. Review: At Washington Ballet, 3 Affable, Immature Premieres 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In a world wracked by war, climate change and economic inequality, this may seem a trivial point. I get it – you’re an atheist. You should still capitalize “God” 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z Its music is charmingly trivial; tutus, tunics and other ballet regalia are worn; there are more than 10 breaks for bows by individual dancers. Mariinsky Ballet Performs at the Kennedy Center Opera House 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Yeah, who cares these days about something as trivial as the truth... Forensics Helps Widen Architecture’s Mission 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Their problems, both large and trivial, are human problems. Mya Taylor is the face of this year’s most improbable Oscar campaign 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z "All the Cool Kids Go to Rehab" might not be terribly funny, given the way the celebrity industry treats addiction and rehabilitation as recurring and sometimes trivial parts of the news cycle. Why ironic T-shirts push real buttons 2011-09-02T14:03:00Z “It’s not a trivial infection for many … It can take anybody’s life, including children.” Yes, you can get a COVID booster and a flu shot together. Here’s what you need to know. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z "The glacial discharge from Rwenzori is trivial compared with the 3m of rainwater that falls and collects in the mountain's bogs and bamboo forests." Race to map Africa's forgotten glaciers before they melt away 2012-06-02T23:05:44Z "Anything I'd do to put my signature on the building would be trivial." Frank Gehry's Philly museum design takes on the "Rocky" steps 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But her young students face problems, like hunger, that make table manners seem trivial. 5 Shows to See if You’re in New York in September 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z This heightened its emotional power, Larkin argued, so that even the most trivial subjects “carry a kind of primitive vivacity.” St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z But the obstacles along the way seem trivial enough to make the story of their relationship fairly tedious, despite the charm and sincerity of the actors. Review: In ‘The Longest Ride,’ the Nicholas Sparks Brand Endures 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Pedaling through a seemingly trivial existence, frantically towards this block of certainty that seems to be omnipresent just over the horizon. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z It is a trivial dilemma, perhaps, but a painful one nevertheless. Aging and My Beauty Dilemma 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z “It sounds trivial about designating rooms,” she says. Seattle Piano Institute draws students from around the world for piano and life lessons 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z Counting dollars is trivial in light of the tragedy in Colorado. AP Essay: Will anyone really miss the box office? 2012-07-22T11:31:05Z "In every tragic moment, there are those small trivial details that make it comical," said Östlund. With 83 foreign films in Oscar contention, a look at six standouts 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “Even the most trivial, stupid things—like, for months, I’ve looked in the mirror and said ‘I still feel this way about HGTV.’ John Mulaney on Finding New Material and Why He's No Comeback Kid 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z He’s initially put off by the apparently trivial subject matter but comes to admire what she does with it—and takes an interest in reading her unpublished writings, which she offers him. Everyone Is a "Trainwreck" 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Related ideas, such as “everything is pretty” or “everything is nice,” suggest a simple-mindedness that is trivial. Review | For beloved D.C. artist Alma Thomas, beauty wasn’t just about art. It was essential to life, too. 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Otherwise, the mind could end up a slave to the trivial, set to sweating over account books or to outwitting our business competitors. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z A lot of people—I don’t want this to sound trivial—but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive. Trump, Jobs, Zuckerberg: We idolize jerks 2012-08-12T12:00:00Z They are not carried out in a delusional swoon, or by trivial status updates. When the Internet was for strangers 2013-02-17T17:00:00Z She was seen sweating out the big and little details while he dwelled on the artistically trivial. HBO’s ‘The Leisure Class’: As expected, Jason Mann’s precious movie stinks 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Donald Kagan was a Lithuanian native, raised in New York City, who studied ancient Greece in college and was inspired by the “remarkable assumption that the human being is not trivial.” Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z It is no trivial matter then to deny the necessity of this antagonism, to claim that it is based on a tragic misunderstanding, and to suggest moreover that our culture’s health depends on overcoming it. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z Artists added to civilization by opposing the familiar, the common, the trivial and the complacent. Perspective | John F. Kennedy became a hero to American art lovers — but he wasn’t one himself 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z In the Olympics for trivial grievances, competition on this show was stiff. 10 Characters Who Could Run Things in Westworld's Season 2 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z Our conversation ranged from trivial matters and uproarious stories about neighborhood matters to serious acknowledgment of our unusual situation. An Optimist’s Guide to Divorce 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Soviet scholars, for ideological reasons, regarded her diaries and her extensive memoirs, recorded on 20,000 typewritten pages and covering 55 years of her life, as trivial and too critical of a cherished national symbol. ‘Kreutzer Sonata Variations’ Has a Scorned Wife’s Rebuttal 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The classicizing enthusiasm for a trivial movie such as “Upgrade” reflects a cinematic Goldilocks principle—a craving for movies that are neither too big nor too small but just right. “Upgrade,” Reviewed: The Misguided Nostalgia Behind a Low-Budget Sci-Fi Horror Film 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z She deplores the way ersatz feminist debates have become clickbait, revolving around such trivial questions as: “Does Waxing Make Me a Bad Feminist?” Review: ‘We Were Feminists Once,’ on a Movement Co-Opted 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni famously depicted them as quarrelsome, if good-hearted simpletons, getting into brawls for trivial reasons. ‘Little Venice’ Finally Gets its Moment 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z In other words, judges don't waste their time over trivial matters, like copying tiny portions of others' works. Katy Perry's "California Gurls" on safe ground 2010-08-17T02:01:00Z “On the other hand, trouble of the gravest kind is always apt to follow, even in trivial injuries, when a wound of the skin is present. How is this?” The Story of How Surgeons Cleaned Up Their Act 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Distraction is the opposite of joy, which becomes rarer as we spend more time in a frictionless environment of easy and trivial digital choices. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Whether on blogs or Facebook, in tweets or poems, what matters in confessionalism is not the dirty or trivial detail itself but the writing of it. 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere – review 2012-08-03T21:55:07Z The funeral gives their bickering a greater intensity, but their argument is essentially trivial. Astonishing Archie – review 2012-11-21T18:15:47Z The equating of accent and autism, one of which we usually consider trivial and the other hugely portentous, was eye-opening for me. When Disability Isn’t a Special Need but a Special Skill 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s a light piece, sure, but hardly trivial. Theater Review: Marcel Pagnol’s ‘Marius,’ by Storm Theater Company 2012-09-25T22:45:42Z Seldom can the establishment have acted with such hypocrisy: it is an unforgivable outrage that Anthony's brilliance in cataloguing the works of Poussin should have been overshadowed by such a trivial matter. Outsider II by Brian Sewell – digested read 2012-11-18T20:00:02Z It seeps into your home and work, and shapes monumental and seemingly trivial choices as well as your art and your entertainment. What It’s Like to Be a Female Movie Critic in the #MeToo Era 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Such things are considered trivial compared with the challenge of designing chairs, cars and even cutlery, and yet these are the very designs, or lack of them, that raise our collective blood pressure. Praise for a god of small things 2010-03-16T22:05:00Z Or maybe the surprising lack of consequences, since Mr. Rejtman’s achievement is to obliterate any conventional distinction between the trivial and the profound. A Brief Look at 10 New York Film Festival Features 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It seems so trivial, yet over and over people report that they feel this really disproportionate boost when they get outer order. Gretchen Rubin on messy office kitchen politics: "A lot of passive-aggressive Dilbert cartoons" 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z And the early monologue performed by Ms. Carden, in which an American high schooler verges on an emotional meltdown because she’s been excluded from the in crowd, feels trivial in comparison to the meatier pieces. Theater Review: ‘Emotional Creature,’ From Signature Theater 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z “We believe no question is too trivial or worry too small,” Burns says. ‘Time is precious in IVF’: the women who fear they have lost their chance to have children 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z “The best year” because it is a defining year, and everything that happens to the young man after that seems to him trivial by comparison. This Week in Fiction: Paul Theroux on the Fascination of Large Families 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z William Bligh flogs and murders his sailors over trivial infractions. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: When Trump goes to the movies 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z And though she could not print scandals, she found that “through the gathering of inane and trivial news I was educated and profoundly changed.” The Secrets of Vera Caspary, the Woman Who Wrote "Laura" 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The weaker poems are similarly lumpish and trivial. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Trust isn’t trivial—and any betrayal is a sign to reevaluate the relationship. 7 Signs You're in a Toxic Friendship 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent or engraved with the sharpness of steel. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Everyone on the other end is extremely annoyed about trivial things—missing work, undelivered Chinese food, malfunctioning equipment. TV’s most conservative show isn’t on Fox News: This new cop show glorifies everything Bill O’Reilly holds dear 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In terms of eye-hand coordination or “gamer skills,” Heavy Rain is negligible, even trivial, in its challenge, which will offend twitch fiends. Video Game Review | Heavy Rain: Murderer?s Young Prey; A Father?s Torment 2010-02-27T00:34:00Z It invites us to look closely, and with forensic determination, at the mundane, trivial and functional. Perspective | Will our migrant detention cages be studied in tomorrow’s museums? 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z In the case in question, the argument for compliance with social need is far from trivial. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z Historian Daniel Boorstin said they reduced “great national issues to trivial dimensions.” Think presidential debates are dull? Thank 1950s TV game shows 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z At some tables North opened in the second position, which made reaching game trivial. Bridge: Bridge — European Team Championships in Dublin 2012-06-29T23:29:16Z Extended drones, chantlike repeating phrases, tolling chords, spacious reverberation: Those are meditative sounds, defying fracture or interruption, tuning out the momentary and the trivial, invoking concentration, absorption, ritual and rapture. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But we live in a world — and face problems like global climate change — where the impact of millions of people taking small, even trivial actions can actually add up to something quite large. Millennials will save us! 2013-02-16T19:00:00Z On "The Baby-Sitters Club," standing out from a world that often mocks anything teen and tween girls enjoy as trivial or stupid, our favorite feminist sitters contain multitudes in their interests and expertise. From astrology to tax policy, tween girls contain multitudes on “The Baby-Sitters Club” 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Harrison’s depiction of the trivial and the profound unhappinesses that can bring even young, accomplished New Yorkers to the brink of breakdown is sharply drawn and funny. | 'Maple and Vine': ?Maple and Vine? at Playwrights Horizons - Review 2011-12-08T03:01:15Z The trivial things "that bury sadness" also "sing" – they project a living line beyond it. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z I’m not at all surprised by the energetic spin of Smulders’s performance; I noticed her aptitude for subtle comedy in the otherwise trivial “Delivery Man.” How Mumblecore Brings Out the Best in Actors 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Against the backdrop of the Rockies both dance and dancers became trivial. Dance Review: Nature Paints Backdrop for City Ballet?s Stars 2011-08-03T22:21:36Z Yet too many of the book’s supposed lessons are annoyingly trivial. ‘How Google Works,’ by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Packed with facts both trivial and significant, relying heavily on the possibly skewed memories of the author’s widow, and utterly reverent throughout, volume two emphasizes Heinlein the husband, traveler, independent businessman and political activist. ‘Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century,’ by William H. Patterson, Jr. “Modern life allows many things that, 60 or 70 years ago, were not possible. … It seems trivial, but it’s huge,” Scheppelmann said. Why are there so few women at the top in classical music? What’s being done about it in Seattle and elsewhere? 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z From such a perspective, even something as seemingly trivial as what artists or records are genuinely great matters far beyond the deceptively simple issue of personal taste. The Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Big-Hearted Theory of Pop 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z She began talking about her thread veins, which again seemed utterly trivial. David Nott: ‘They told me my chances of leaving Aleppo alive were 50/50’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Last night, I got in a huge fight with my mother over something others may perceive as trivial. I’m stuck living at home! 2012-12-12T01:00:00Z You can't, unless it is an ideological argument, classify the arts as a trivial pursuit. Robert Redford: 'Don't cut the arts' 2011-03-16T10:30:28Z The result is a deep, at times striking lack of attention paid to other, highly crucial questions, and a tendency to focus on the trivial. Review | ‘The Power of Ethics’ offers a way forward in an increasingly muddled world 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z We do have to own it; we do need to be able to empathize with these people who were treated so horrendously because of something so trivial as racial difference. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Robert Redford says notions that the arts are trivial or worthless are driven by "small minds." Robert Redford wants artists to push government 2010-06-25T21:27:00Z This is what goes on every day on Twitter, Flickr and other social-media sites dealing with trivial events and far more serious disasters. Citizens Band 2011-01-06T08:05:00Z And when she engages in a trivial act of rebellion and lets loose with a petulant complaint, Mayer berates her monstrously, reminding her of her modest origins and troubled family. “Judy,” Reviewed: Renée Zellweger’s Transcendent Performance as Judy Garland 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z It might seem trivial, but it is characteristic of the airport novel's aim to suppress the complexity and variety of human motivation in favour of neat story-serving points. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – review 2013-05-23T08:00:02Z As people, the members of the Fantomes are nasty, trivial and boring. ‘Viena and the Fantomes’ Review: A Roadie and a Bad Band 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Such probabilistic information can then influence sentencing recommendations and bail amounts, so it's hardly trivial. How Facebook could get you arrested 2013-03-09T19:20:01Z Compared with much else that is going on – people dying, losing jobs – this is certainly at the trivial end of how losing control makes us uncomfortable. Would you dare to dye your partner's hair? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Though this might sound trivial, I realized that if I walk whenever I’m on the phone, this adds up to a real workout. Could you skip your workout if you built more activity into your day? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z There is nothing accidental about this and nothing trivial about the women themselves. Pussy Riot: activists, not pin-ups 2012-12-20T18:35:44Z He recalls the years he spent at a London advertising agency, where he was good at his job, and how he became convinced that what he was doing there was trivial. ‘Chasing Coral’ on Netflix Goes Underwater to Highlight Climate Change 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z “The only people dumb enough not to understand this are certified intellectuals — journalists and college professors, mostly — who need fodder for columns or something apparently important but actually trivial to wring their hands about.” Before the Oscars, Some Films Face the Truth Test 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Add on top of this my endless — and perhaps more trivial — battle to extricate myself from my phone and laptop and you may begin to wonder: Haven't we been here before? How Stephen Colbert's defiant honesty helped me navigate the madness of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z The play never moves beyond trivial carping and general hand-wringing about the difficulty of raising children and maintaining a marriage while working full time. | 'Parents? Evening': Julianne Nicholson and James Waterston at Flea Theater 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z “I don’t want to think about him now. Or how empty, how trivial and lifeless everything seems now,” Bride says. Toni Morrison’s familiar, flawed ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Trivia, but not trivial: He started his career as a voice actor in "Godzilla" films in the 1950s. Which original 'Star Trek' star is comin' to Comicon? 2011-12-01T21:16:50Z This might sound like a trivial suggestion, but I'm serious. Make graduations less boring, please! 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The first scene offers a montage of the monotony of illness: the football games whose outcomes become confoundingly trivial and the fresh air that tastes fresher if only because it’s in limited supply. Have Your Morning Cry with Deleted Scenes from The Fault in Our Stars 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z But, as it happens, I don’t think hairdos are trivial. Would you dare to dye your partner's hair? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z It sounds trivial but that was the point. Maggie Gyllenhaal on sexual liberation 2012-05-18T13:50:00Z The structure he eventually settles on is “10 singular events, some of them portentous, some more trivial, but each appearing to me to herald some kind of trend.” Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z So the ban is not a trivial thing. Perspective | Do we really still need Banned Books Week? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z But he insisted that the difference between his film and Mr. Cooper’s was not trivial. ‘Black Mass’ Resurrects Boston’s Long Memories of Whitey Bulger 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Both seem utterly sincere in their efforts to capture the odd scraps that others tend to dismiss as trivial or arcane, the traces of our passing presence in the world. Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z To some, this may feel trivial, and to others, impressive. How summers in Greece taught me the joy of frying 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Instead, Ariel Dumas and Karen Chee host a funny show in which comedians take opposing sides on the most trivial subjects so you can enjoy a break from weightier matters for an hour or two. 4 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Always an insightfully dynamic framer of images, Mr. German choreographs both important and trivial events in the foreground and background in one big danse macabre. ‘Hard to Be a God,’ Aleksei German’s Last Film 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The rage and contempt heaped on an artist who was dismissed as trivial and reactionary and a betrayer of the Beatles’ legacy has long since dissipated. New Music: A New Album From Paul McCartney 2012-02-06T16:02:08Z Participating in this call and response is a kind of critique, a way to show up the media by allowing their oversize responses to essentially trivial actions to reveal the emptiness of their raison d’être. Explaining James Franco Explaining Shia LaBeouf: Why None of This Is Art 2014-02-20T20:40:28Z When the alchemy is right, this often trivial art takes off into the stratosphere. Review: New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Blends Movement and Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Haley’s short stories are authored in McEwan’s controlled, lucid style, where singular and seemingly trivial incidents become turning points, resulting in previously unforeseen consequences for the protagonist and those around them. Ian McEwan, novelist-historian 2012-11-14T21:06:00Z Rather, I'm referring to when a person interrogates a stranger about something that is 1. quite frankly none of their business; 2. nothing that they intend to do anything about; and/or 3. outstandingly trivial. Perspective | Miss Manners: How to handle inane, nosy questions 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z To be honest, I think it’s for some of you women to explain why any decent socialist would choose this moment to get divisive over something as trivial as who’s got a bigger ministerial limo. Modern tribes: the brocialist 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z “I think he abandoned songs and thought they were trivial,” Parks says. Pop genius Harry Nilsson left an unreleased record behind. Now you can finally hear the completed version. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z One of the many draconian statutes passed was a law against the trivial non-crime of “vagrancy,” allowing law enforcement to arrest and incarcerate African-Americans for being unemployed or incapable of proving employment. A leap for women’s rights: The Texas abortion case and the end of reproductive Jim Crow laws 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z “The travel industry has gone from trivial to the substantial in terms of how it markets to the L.G.B.T. community,” said Henry H. Harteveldt, a travel analyst and the president of the Atmosphere Research Group. Rolling Out the Rainbow Carpet 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But Mr. Leffingwell’s encyclopedic knowledge of the topic, and of the players, helps immensely here, in separating the seminal from the trivial and in conveying the information concisely. Books: A Time to Turn Pages Instead of Corners 2012-12-09T04:17:17Z It's not the tragic, but the trivial thingsthat bury sadness deeper every day;not how creation sighs, but how it singsthough that itself is tragic, in a way. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z This is trivial nonsense about people that you don't know, and don't care about you. 'Idol' divas Carey, Minaj take their feud public 2012-10-04T20:35:09Z A generation charmed by the lugubrious—once in O’Neill, Dreiser, and Anderson, now in Steinbeck and Van Wyck Brooks—is perhaps fleeing from the trivial shape of its own thoughts. Watch “Howards End”—Then Read It 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Only late in the game does “Egyptomania” get down to the trivial pursuits that are its main attraction. Books of The Times: ‘Egyptomania,’ by Bob Brier, Tells of the Mummy’s Lure 2013-12-15T21:11:48Z The movie’s very title suggests that its concerns are marginal, esoteric, even trivial. Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z When Diarra is arrested for a trivial matter, Traoré arranges for his release, and hires him at the factory, where the employees are about to call a meeting and threaten to strike, with Traoré’s support. “Baara”: A Must-See Film of Patriarchal Abuse, at the New York African Film Festival 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z The swashbuckling tropes in Joseph’s tale seem overly familiar, even trivial, next to the urgency of Alma’s quest amid the harsh realities of the African diaspora. Swashbuckling Nautical Adventure Meets the 18th-Century Slave Trade 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z While we do a minimal amount of off-topic bonding — happy birthdays and holiday wishes, news about moves, job changes, family and travel, the funny or the trivial — it's rare. Our group chat is a sacred space to talk openly about being Black in America 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z And art without the sense of life's transience is unthinkable, or so trivial we might as well ignore it. Manchester international festival: Room with no view 2011-07-11T20:30:01Z I opened The New York Times the other day, and the phrase “Let’s be trivial for a minute” caught my eye. Women of a Certain Age, Gail Collins Has Your Back 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The name is a deliberate misnomer; there are no actual crimes on “Petty Crimes,” just the kinds of trivial mini-battles that inevitably arise when strangers coexist. 6 Podcasts to Help You Take an Actual Break This Summer 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z It allows us to hear in Williams’s “so much depends” an epiphany that “encompasses, not just the majesty of trivial things, but the life those things drag behind.” Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It was at Eileen’s urging that McKenney sent her stories to The New Yorker; her friends in the labor movement called them “trivial, bourgeois bits of fluff.” In Praise of Ruth McKenney 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, one of the most frequently cited reasons for not reporting sexual offences is that they seemed “too trivial” to report. It's not groping or fondling – it is sexual assault 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But it’s also trivial and lacking in any dance composition of note. San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s just fun to know from a trivial sense what the guy meant. Stephen Malkmus Doesn’t Think He Was a Jerk 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z At the shelter, I walked dogs that had been abandoned for trivial reasons or for no reason at all. Opening the Heart’s Floodgates, With a Paw 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Critical opinion was pretty much unanimous earlier this spring when New York’s Museum of Modern Art unveiled an ill-considered, badly executed and intellectually trivial exhibition showcasing the career of the Icelandic singer Bjork. MoMA and the architects of a Latin American design revolution 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z They are almost trivial next to the murderous attack on the Jewish museum in Brussels, the pogrom-like siege of a synagogue in Paris or the pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Germany chanting “Hamas, Hamas, Juden ins gas!” The Persistence of Anti-Semitism 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z This means they sometimes rescued trivial items — tennis rackets or frozen foods — instead of their record collections or irreplaceable artwork. Why your belongings hold so much meaning, and how to decide what to grab in an emergency 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Stories of life-devouring flood, famine and pestilence are woven with references to such seemingly trivial phenomena as television cooking shows and selfies. Review: In ‘Escaped Alone’ Fears Small (Cats) and Large (Apocalypse) 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Carter is also candid about some of his shortcomings, such as his lack of patience, his penchant for jealousy and his fights with his wife over trivial issues. Jimmy Carter's latest book offers lessons in faith 2012-01-04T20:41:08Z “I think his legacy is in being honest — not wasting time with trivial questions, being very direct, being able to shock people with his use of language.” Raven O, a Nightlife Fixture for Four Decades, Takes a Final Bow 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z It's hard to imagine this description of a wartime cabinet flowing from the pen of any other PM: "Anyway, you get the picture: the usual mix of the historic, the transient and the trivial." Stryker McGuire: 'Americans have had a taste of Blair's feud with Gordon Brown, but they will be struck by Blair's venom' 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z But in my small, trivial life, in my way, I was traumatized by this experience because it was just really hard. Demetri Martin: Comedy’s Renaissance man 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The New York Times called the symphony “trivial” and “flimsy.” ‘Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings’ Paints a Troubling Portrait 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The trade group argued that Gentile used an unproven definition of pathological gaming and made negative interpretations of "trivial" differences between the behaviors of problem gamers and other children in the survey. Study suggests video games can affect depression and anxiety in kids 2011-01-20T20:58:04Z After eight hours of surgery, why would I be so careful with something as trivial as the wound closure? The patient I couldn’t heal 2012-11-27T00:00:00Z A representative for Dallas city council said that the controversy over Badu's video was "a trivial issue that comes at a time when the city is facing so many more important issues." Erykah Badu video stirs anger over use of JFK assassination site | Richard Adams 2010-03-31T02:21:00Z But trivial gossip dims beside the genius to which this exhibition paid righteous homage. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 1 – Lucian Freud Portraits 2012-12-21T11:01:27Z Two things, one trivial: You were hoisted on the shoulders not foisted. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z This time out, the painting seems instead to unlock residual currents of unrest between the men that are far from trivial. Review: ‘Art’ and ‘Saint Joan’ 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z So much of nonwhite representation in cinema is trivial at best, stereotypical at worst — the wisecracking sidekick or the background player stuck there as a token. A Latina Disney Movie Princess? The Wait Isn’t Over 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z It’s nonfiction, and people can make fun of the way you think or say, oh that was trivial.” Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z So while planting tomatoes may seem like a trivial example, it's yet another sign of the climate changing all around us. What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z A list will keep the focus on the baby, rather than on trivial affronts or personal problems. Perspective | Her dad has offered to take care of her child while she works. But can she trust him? 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z But in the bigger picture, his misery is trivial. Review: Ben Stiller Is a Dad With a Bruised Ego in ‘Brad’s Status’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z As an adult, when you're reflecting on it, you realize, "Oh my God, that was such a trivial thing that I was like completely losing my mind over or was making me spin out." Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy as "Chad": "It’s such a universal notion to just want to belong" 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z She told the Times that social media sites “rev people up” and trivial disputes could escalate into violence “within minutes” when rivals set out to goad each other on the internet. Social media related to violence by young people say experts 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z You should not waste your real authority and interrupt the positive growth of this relationship over something as trivial as neglecting to push in a chair after eating. Perspective | Ask Amy: Future stepmom doesn’t want to create Cinderfella 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Even when Beth threatens to break up Dink’s marriage — and even, later, when she is threatened with the possibility of prison time — the dramatic and emotional stakes seem trivial. Movie Review: ‘Lay the Favorite,’ Directed by Stephen Frears 2012-12-07T00:55:30Z Consequential things, such as who would win an election or whether a bill might pass, and trivial things, like how many times Donald Trump would say the words “Crooked Hillary” at a debate. This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It begins as such a trivial piece, it has this very simple melody, serenading a loved one, with a guitar accompaniment. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z But sometimes it is just trivial chit-chat, and a bit of a laugh. Readers recommend: songs about gossip 2011-02-25T00:02:00Z See the opening chase scene of Bay’s “6 Underground,” currently on Netflix, for a sense of what can be done with an emotionally stultified and dramatically trivial script. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Flanagan stunned a judge and prosecutors before testimony resumed Wednesday by saying the results of a study he commissioned confirmed that if Jackson swallowed the anesthetic, its effects would be "trivial." Experts focusing on Jackson doctor's missteps 2011-10-13T17:11:08Z That last one may seem like a trivial problem with an easy solution. What Happens When We Lose the Art That Brings Us Together? 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Amid the incalculable losses of the pandemic, live music might seem trivial to some. Review | In concert, Harry Styles reminds fans what they’ve been missing 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the “worse” is not fleshed out except in trivial ways that have the effect of deflating yet centering Daisey himself. Review: Live Theater Returns, With Mike Daisey and His Beefs 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z It sounds obvious and trivial, but if you study, say, “Götterdämmerung” or “Elektra,” to get a clear idea of the harmonic structure takes a lot of time. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “The problem with the categorical imperative is that you always try to use it in these trivial life decisions,” Mr. Allen said. Woody Allen on Philosophy, Film and Regrets Over His Amazon Deal 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z In recollections that are light without being trivial, we learn of their feelings for their husbands, their opinions of the country and their plans for the future. Theater Review: ‘Tea for Three,’ With Elaine Bromka, at Urban Stages 2013-06-05T20:16:00Z We also come to forcefully understand that even the most trivial experiences are marked by this organ’s struggles to make sense of the world. Glimpsing the Brain?s Powers (and Limits) 2010-11-19T18:00:00Z What they say is often as trivial as the most basic small talk. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Yet despite substantial evidence of large-scale fraud, nobody has gone to jail, nobody’s compensation has been clawed back, and only a few firms have paid even trivial fines. Books Of The Times: Post-Mortem on Madoff?s Fraud While Scandal Is Still Quivering 2011-04-25T21:59:38Z It sounds trivial and silly, but it does give me a boost and feels like a little bit of normality. Pet chicks, pink hair, an old plane: Explore this illustration of readers' pandemic coping habits To add insult to injury, Dr. Grimes said, some dermatologists peg vitiligo as “a trivial cosmetic condition” and tell patients to just live with their uneven skin or use makeup or a self-tanner. Skin Deep: Vitiligo: Ignoring What Is Painfully Obvious 2010-02-24T20:28:00Z The stakes couldn’t be much lower in “Mr. Pim Passes By,” a trivial comedy of manners that seems to evaporate into the ether while the actors are still taking their bows. ‘Mr. Pim Passes By’: drollery, manners, not much else 2014-02-06T22:23:33Z For the next hour, Arrington portrayed Mace as a Trump sellout who has focused on supposedly trivial concerns such as saving pandas, legalizing pot and freeing Britney Spears. Trump shunned Nancy Mace. Can she survive a GOP primary anyway? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The artists who imitated him were denounced as rococo fantasists, abhorred in the age of the French revolution as the epitome of all that was decadent and trivial in the court of the Ancien Régime. Watteau at the Royal Academy: the theatre of life 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z Again and again, Gessen attacks Trump for such trivial crimes as hanging golden drapes in the Oval Office or ordering the wrong kind of cake. Is Donald Trump a Danger to Democracy? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z "It was just so powerful because it was all just so trivial," she said. Keys calls on famous friends to star in racial justice video 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Cannibal Holocaust poster Photograph: Allstar Belgian cult hit earns awards at Cannes and Toronto, lending credibility to a genre previously thought of as tacky and trivial. End of Watch: enough with the found footage movies 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z The alleged conduct ranged from relatively trivial unwelcome contact — grabbing and holding women’s hands, for example — to inappropriate late-night phone calls and aggressive and repeated sexual propositioning. ‘I don’t want to sit on your lap,’ she thought. But, she alleges, Mark Halperin insisted. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z The disputed episodes involve mostly trivial issues and minor matters of fact. Reporters say White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports Every day, in every interaction, vital or trivial, we hope for the kind of presence that lets our brains and hearts find themselves. Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z I hate my amazing life Topics: , Love, relationshipos, Scandinavia, Horses, Farming, I’ve written to you before, but it was silly and trivial matters when I think about it now. I hate my amazing life 2013-09-17T00:00:00Z Although the application may seem trivial, printing lyrics onto merchandise is an increasingly important revenue stream for musicians in an era of declining record sales. Taylor Swift trademarks 'sick beat' 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Choreographers have tended to avoid Mozart’s music when making dances, for fear their steps will look trivial in comparison. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Not only is it dull to hear all the trivial details of someone else’s juice cleanse or personal-training session, it also forces you to confront your own sense of inadequacy for failing to measure up. The Science of Dealing With People You Hate 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z The mystery of Mr. Pynchon’s cameo is trivial. Paul Thomas Anderson Films ‘Inherent Vice’ 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z “There is nothing tame, or cheap, or trivial — it is all magnificent.” 36 Hours in Zermatt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Doctor Brown Bear, a recurring character, encouraged “unrealistic expectations of primary care” because of his out-of-hours calls for trivial illnesses, a real-life GP wrote in the British Medical Journal. ‘It was like meeting the Pope’: how Peppa Pig became a £1bn global phenomenon 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z All pop life, trivial and/or blissful, exists in extreme form inside the Christmas song. Paul Morley's Showing Off? 2010-12-26T00:05:10Z As such, nostalgia became kitsch, trivial and reactionary: hardly the stuff of a meaningful engagement with the past or the workings of memory. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z You might suppose that in a post-Warhol world in which the serious and the trivial mix inextricably he would be in his element. Art Review: Cecil Beaton?s Work at Museum of City of New York - Review 2011-11-10T23:02:14Z “My executive director only brings me messages that are important. I teach the people around me to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.” The Tyranny of Constant Contact 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The critic Martin Williams wrote that Hendricks’s “trivial” lyrics tended to make jazz seem like “pretty light stuff.” Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z I don’t think politics is trivial — it’s not trivial for me. ArtsBeat: The Politics and Poems of Adrienne Rich 2012-03-28T23:50:06Z It seems trivial, but the venom was over the top. Perspective | Ask Amy: Friendship fracture breaks up the band 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z This seemingly trivial approach is actually a solid recipe for success. Is Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg really the new face of feminism? 2013-03-17T00:05:51Z Many of the changes are trivial, taken in isolation. ArtsBeat: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Uncut, in a New Edition of Short Stories 2014-05-01T20:28:34Z Pop choruses didn’t mean the songs were trivial. New Music: Big Boi’s ‘Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors,’ and Lifehouse 2012-12-10T23:17:11Z Then there were those who thought the legislature shouldn’t be devoting any time at all to such a trivial issue. Why officials from Colorado to Texas to D.C. are trying to protect lemonade stands 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z The letter lists “11 errors”, which on close reading turn out to range from the trivial to the entirely specious. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z In this sense, those songs are not trivial at all – at the point of death and reflection, they define a whole life. Astonishing Archie – review 2012-11-21T18:15:47Z A flurry of “first-world problems” so trivial as to be an insult to the planet’s struggling masses? Movie Review: ‘This Is 40,’ From Judd Apatow and Starring Paul Rudd 2012-12-20T18:32:19Z Scenes from the reporters’ home lives emphasize how trivial these technical challenges seem compared to domestic ones. ‘Writing With Fire’ Review: Speaking Truth to Power 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z This initial untruth seemed too trivial to serve as foreshadowing. Perspective | Pat Conroy said he was ‘the most falsely open man’ I’d ever met. He was right. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z How War Came Home to Stay A squabble is a noisy quarrel over a trivial matter. Books of The Times: ?Drift? by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC Traces American Militarism 2012-03-28T22:36:04Z This opening “trivial” happening sets off a series of discursions, which the narrator continually undermines as he expresses them, and which some readers might disparage as literary navel-gazing. Jung Young Moon weaves a metafictional dream in 'Vaseline Buddha' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z And they are criticised for meddling with animal bodies for "trivial" purposes. The race to create 'insect cyborgs' 2013-02-17T00:05:32Z Video games, as much as I loved them, were trivial. An Ardent Video Gamer Recalls How He Got Hooked 2013-08-07T16:05:18Z They often quarrelled, sometimes over trivial things, such as the meaning of the word epicenter, or more serious ones, such as the future of the caste system in India. Memories of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The performance points a finger at a flaw that may seem trivial but I read as a sign that we’ve become conditioned to gazing at the naked female body. Deborah de Robertis: Shocking for a Purpose 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z No element is too trivial to be considered. The Ups and Downs of Fashion in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z Our entertainment industry is trivial and banal: glitz, glamour and an illusion of perfection and enjoyment that’s very far from the truth. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Talking to the media is trivial, Newton was overcome with emotion, and really, who wouldn’t sulk on the what will probably be the single worst day of his football life? Racist vitriol pours down on Cam Newton: Single-minded haters rush to judgement after a rough Super Bowl 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z This is refusal, and a trivial work perhaps inspired by a superficial awareness of the “word games” ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Review | Robert Rauschenberg: A clear-eyed views of chaos, or just chaos? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z And so much of what concerned me as important in the earlier pages of my diary now seems mawkish, trivial or beneath notice. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Trying to quantify an answer is really just trivial showbiz math, pseudoscientific data marshaled in support of a conclusion that is already axiomatic: Meryl Streep is the best screen actress in the world. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z You will still face challenges big and small, meaningful and trivial. Lord Browne: testimonies on life inside the glass closet 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z They end up, however, looking not deranged but trivial. Dance Review: A Danish Modern Twist Updates Classical Ballet 2011-06-15T22:03:19Z This is not really a story about hair, which many consider to be trivial. Would you dare to dye your partner's hair? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Lawyer J. Michael Flanagan said Wednesday that a study commissioned by the defense showed any effect from swallowing propofol would be trivial. Defense drops claim Jackson took fatal drug dose 2011-10-12T17:31:11Z The whole gala, a trivial event, had a back-to-front quality of misplaced priorities and unresolved ideas. Review: City Ballet’s Gala Evening of Misses ... and a Lot of Skin 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z And after Powell’s own death, Spurling notes, V. S. Naipaul, an early admirer of “Dance,” “reversed his view, characterizing the sequence as irremediably trivial and clumsy.” The One-Hit Author Whose One Hit Had 12 Volumes 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z This one is a seemingly trivial query that gets answered and dropped, of a piece with the rest of the book’s brilliant sidelong dialogue. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The greatness of this segment is how it takes a fairly trivial bit of workplace politics and tips it into melodrama, with suspenseful percussive music and increasingly quick cuts as Henry progressively begins to unravel. David Hyde Pierce was the best surprise of “Wet Hot American Summer” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z A child who soaks in the ambient anxiety that surrounds each trivial choice or activity is an anxious child, formed in the hand-wringing, future-focused image of her anxious parents. ‘How to Raise an Adult,’ by Julie Lythcott-Haims 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z “I’d think, ‘Isn’t this ridiculous?’” he said: Painting seemed like a trivial activity when people were in crisis. Bringing World-Class Art, and Wonder, to Mental Health Patients 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Since Kaga plucks all his clues from minor background details, their trivial nature is itself important. Puzzles and Paradoxes: Marilyn Stasio’s Latest Crime Column 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z As Dr. Demento writes in the book’s foreword, the music created by people who write and sing funny songs is “dismissed as ephemeral by serious music fans and as trivial by connoisseurs of spoken comedy.” Review | ‘Weird Al: Seriously’ gives a talented musician his due 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z There is something golden and innocent and Edenic about the world Wodehouse built: while it’s full of trivial people doing trivial things, it is itself not at all trivial. In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse 2011-11-23T16:50:44Z Read along to the rest of his lyrics and you’ll see trivial brags about drugs, cars, jewelry, guns and girls. Migos-mania: How the Atlanta rap trio mastered the sound of silence 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z In his eyes, Boucher's paintings were heartless, decadent, trivial, and morally worthless. For critics, it's better to be interesting than right 2011-01-28T13:02:56Z Left to her own devices, 16-year-old Marideth would sit in her bedroom 24/7 and surf the Internet in a constant state of trivial research. ‘How to Dance in Ohio’: Autistic teens face a daunting ritual — the prom 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z During the 1970s when the nation was rocked by social turmoil, audiences seemed comforted by watching an attractive, well-scrubbed family engaged in trivial pursuits. 'Gilligan's Island' Creator Sherwood Schwartz Dies 2011-07-12T17:25:26Z Meanwhile, it would be reductive to suggest that films about the entertainment industry are inherently trivial or irrelevant to those outside it. La La Land and Hollywood's everlasting love affair with itself 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Momentary pleasures lead to lasting regrets; trivial interactions can seem cataclysmic. Lorde Learns She Can’t Party Away Her Melancholy on ‘Melodrama’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Examples of such words included “exam,” “critical” and “trivial.” How to Tell if Someone Will Succeed 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In “Nine Nasty Words,” McWhorter describes the evolution of some of the most notorious profanities in English, applying the tools of linguistics to find “structure in what seems like chaos, mess or the trivial.” John McWhorter Takes a Serious Look at Profanity 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z It scarcely matters that the dances of “Aladdin” are synthetic and trivial, like the rest of the show: Their multilayered ebullience flies straight to my heart. Critic’s Notebook: A Look at This Year’s Broadway Choreography 2014-04-25T22:05:13Z When I wrote about in-laws in exile, I was responding to the trivial horror of a daughter-in-law flossing her teeth at the dinner table, not the emotional abuse of a child. What’s Wrong With Kissing in Public? 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z And now, the trivial event you've been waiting for: The Seattle Trivia Crawl. What to do this weekend, rain or shine 2012-04-20T18:36:22Z Mr. Vo sees the letter’s almost trivial price tag as adding conceptual heft to the piece. Who Said Art Is Only for the One Percent? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Most of the action takes place in the secluded hotel room, with the audience a fly on the wall as conversations zig and zag between the trivial and the tragic. 'The humanity of black characters is often forgotten': behind Oscar-tipped One Night in Miami 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z It deals in the quotidian and the trivial, but it keeps us aware of how every seemingly insignificant detail in one family’s life is infused and informed by a much bigger picture. Theater Review: ‘Sorry,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Public Theater 2012-11-07T19:53:52Z It’s normal trouble, as they say — but it’s not trivial. It’s Never Too Late to Record Your First Album 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z So a seemingly trivial decision like paying for chips using a pay-later service can end up seriously harming one’s financial health, Mr. Sadowski said. Would You Take Out a Loan to Buy This Week’s Groceries? 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z There is only one thing, beneath the trivial and aesthetic differences, that separates my brother from any able-bodied person. A letter to … The man who insulted my brother, who has cerebral palsy 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z The rise of instant communication and the democratization of the media ended the power of a few reporters and editors to quash stories they viewed as trivial or improper. 'All the Truth Is Out' probes the repercussions of Gary Hart's affair 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z He would lose his kingdom, but materiality versus identity is rather a trivial thing. Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast is a good start – we need more feminist fairytales 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z The controversy may seem trivial in the scope of things, especially to people directly affected by the news of the past week: mass shootings, large-scale arrests of immigrant workers. They Paid $42 for a SoulCycle Ride, Not for Trump 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z But these bees, with their foolish helmets and petty wing beats, and the giddy, vapid flowers are the ballet’s most trivial characters; and theirs is a long waltz, played here at a very moderate tempo. Critic?s Notebook: Ratmansky?s ?Nutcracker? Occurs in a Child?s World 2012-01-01T23:17:55Z “The Lobster,” by contrast, deploys grand mechanisms for trivial stakes. The Petty Laments of Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Lobster” 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Some journalists say the Obama White House has been more vigilant than its predecessors in scrutinizing pool reports and at times has objected to seemingly trivial details. Reporters say White House sometimes demands changes to press-pool reports And this knowledge makes their bickering and posturing seem both unreal and trivial. | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z My departure might seem a trivial point until you consider that nearly 1,000 African-American journalists have left newsrooms in the last decade. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z It’s tempting to say there’s much too much going on in the world right now to pay any mind to something as trivial as awards-show nominations, and normally I’d agree. Perspective | This year’s Emmy nominations are a reminder to treasure great TV before we run out of it 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Ranger doesn’t bother with trivial matters like knocking, and he isn’t slowed down by a locked door. Exclusive: Read the First Chapter of Janet Evanovich’s New Book 2013-11-19T03:00:45Z However trivial a final may seem in the context of world events, canceling one means far more than canceling a test. How a College Final Became a Lesson in Survival 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z The stakes, which somehow involve the fate of a Hollywood studio as well as the lives of motley strivers and schemers, seem trivial. ‘Marlowe’ Review: The Adventures of a Worn-Out Gumshoe 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z In comparison, the cause of classical music perhaps seems trivial. As Brexit Looms, Musicians Brace for the Worst 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z He’s bent on wresting a work of art from life by retracing his steps, gauging some meaning between the momentous and trivial events that give life its shape. ‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The real novelty, on which the book remains silent, is the scrupulous naturalism down to the most trivial details that characterizes 18th-century sculpture in the antique manner. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z That is, unless you like to get righteous about trivial things, which is to say unless you’re like a lot of people, present company lamentably included. Sports fandom doesn’t have to be miserable 2013-04-15T16:45:00Z Whether this type of satire changes minds is moot – but trivial or inconsequential? Political cartoons, trivial and inconsequential? I think not 2013-07-11T23:30:33Z Those four words also capture the vibe of the early pages of “The Feral Detective,” Jonathan Lethem’s flaky, trivial, intermittently entertaining 11th novel. The Wheels Come Off an American Journey in Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z My teacher pulled me in front of the class, castigated me for the “trivial” book, basically embarrassing me in front of my peers, and ended by chucking my paperback in the trash. Brad Taylor Has a Theory About What Makes for Good Thrillers 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z And just like Blake, they are criticized for meddling with animal bodies for “trivial” purposes. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z “The bizarre characters, the weird situations, the important meetings you have over something that’s unbelievably trivial and embarrassing. It’s really such great fodder for comedy.” In ‘Reboot,’ Everything Old Is New, to Streaming 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z One of Riley’s “islands of identity” is called “goofball,” the antic side of her character, but Docter and Del Carmen endow her with only a mild, trivial, and highly moralistic sense of whimsy. The Curse of the Pixar Universe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Where damage to other senses is recognised as traumatic, loss of smell is seen as trivial, even by doctors. ‘I’ve been told bacon smells lovely’ – life without a sense of smell 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z They feel like trivial things, but they represent fundamental things: what we love and care about, their permanence and impermanence. The East Village Fire: Love Saves the Day 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Just because something appears trivial does not mean it is any less powerful as a means of persuasion and outreach. What Michelle Obama Wore and Why It Mattered 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Listen closely when your child expresses concerns over trivial matters as well as large issues. How to Parent Like a Reporter 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z A distraction or mishap – however tiny or trivial – that slams home the artifice of what you're watching, breaking the spell? In theatre, there's devilry in the details 2010-04-13T16:25:00Z The videotape is a small trivial part of the story, it is unimportant — a superficial, tabloid story. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z How trivial and shallow my then happiness now seems. Digested read: The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-20T20:00:00Z “People want to be acknowledged. There are so many Muslim women in this world who wear the headscarf. It might seem trivial, but it’s different when you see yourself on the keyboard around the world.” ‘It's not about your age, it's about your ideas’: the teen power list 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z But by not admitting it, that trust in him not to hide things from us, trivial or very important, was lost. Carolyn Hax: Mom needs to quit or tell her daughter. No ifs, ands or butts. 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z What appeared on screens seemed better suited for glossy fashion shoots, but there was something far less trivial happening on the Bowl stage and being amplified through the sound system. Dudamel and Wang deliver a 'Rhapsody in Blue' for the Hollywood Bowl history books 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The gallery catalog speculates that the woman must have been a relative, possibly the painter’s mother, for the artist to be so intimately aware of every trivial detail of her appearance. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z “Secrets come in many forms,” he wrote, “from the trivial to the consequential. . . .” From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run But it has now reduced society to such a trivial, crippled form, that it is beyond my notice. Q&A: Harlan Ellison 2013-06-14T15:00:16Z This may sound trivial, but for a woman in Fanning’s line of business, it is no small thing to be at ease with the looks, height and shape you were born with. Dakota Fanning: ‘There was an expectation – to fail, to succeed’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z But as his reputation at the paper spread, he was given more and more trivial, gossipy work. Mucky paps 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The trivial clacks and clicks of your daily life might provide a portal into this music, but once you’re inside, it takes you far away. Review | Galcher Lustwerk understands the rhythms of real life 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z He’s not a bad guy, but more of a fussbudgety blowhard who’s always trying too hard to be the big man, often through trivial means like scatting slang and being keeper of a reunion password. Review: In ‘The D Train,’ Jack Black and James Marsden in a Steamy Bromance 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z A trivial dilemma I know, compared to the trauma and upset this man has caused to others. Should you feel guilty owning Rolf's art? 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Still, membership in the post-“Jeopardy!” fellowship is a feather in the cap for professionals in a city where knowing things, even trivial things, is considered cool. America fell in love with ‘Jeopardy!’ again this year. In Washington, the romance never faded. 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Still, when measured against Mr. M’s sins, Tracy’s peccadilloes look pretty trivial. What America Gets Wrong About Tracy Flick 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Some of you will dismiss this as trivial and silly, and of course you will be right. Drip-fed up: why don't theatres get Twitter? 2011-02-08T15:43:00Z Not as trivial as it sounds: it took almost a hundred years before his conjecture was proved by an eccentric Russian mathematician, Grigori Perelman, who then dramatically refused the million dollar prize for solving it. Henri Poincaré: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso 2012-07-17T11:48:23Z One in eight Americans rely on these medications, hardly a trivial number. Review: In ‘Ordinarily Well,’ Peter D. Kramer Goes to the Antidepressant Ramparts 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Friday’s choreography, trivial at best, was not unrepresentative of Ardani presentations. Review: Three Ballets at City Center Honor Two Impresarios 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s about shame, but also about the hypersensitive intimacy of the things around me—however trivial and derelict they seem. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z This is not embroidery in the sense of trivial embellishment, but the delicate stitching of the syntax into various rhetorical patterns. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z A few well-written academic articles, he says, will do little to change a statistical average determined by a myriad of trivial ones. Will Wikipedia replace the academic thesis? 2013-03-19T18:22:00Z These days I take my crossword to the set with me and I'll nap every now and then and get involved in trivial conversation. Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z This is a pretty trivial concern about the release of film. Christopher Nolan objects to Warner Bros. release plan, but he’s happy you can watch ‘Tenet’ at home now 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The question sounds both trivial — there are surely graver matters to worry about — and unduly apocalyptic. How Much Do You Really Miss Going to the Movies? 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z As usual, the gala featured a trivial one-off novelty. American Ballet Theater Celebrates 70th With Gala 2010-05-18T17:04:00Z But then, is it any less trivial this weekend than the other 51 weekends of the year? AP Essay: Will anyone really miss the box office? 2012-07-22T11:31:05Z If you asked the candidates — actually, they were happy to tell you, anyway — that debate was a disaster because the moderators were insulting and fixated on asking trivial questions. Fox Business Network’s Debate Is a Step Up, in Some Ways 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Placing the trivial nonsense that ensues in a country that’s experiencing political and economic catastrophe is about as dicey as the movie gets. Actors Flock to Netflix to Satisfy Their Most Loyal Fans 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Glew is an amusing screen presence, and his story, while unquestionably trivial, has some of the absorbing, low-stakes whimsy of a nice magazine feature. ‘The Pez Outlaw’ Review: Sweet and Lowdown 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Part of the occult power of television lies in its ability to collapse the distance between the trivial and the consequential. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z But whether it’s Stanley Tucci’s arms, his voice, or that little thing called terror management theory, it’s comforting to know there’s something we can all agree on, however trivial. Why is Stanley Tucci making a negroni so hot? I decided to investigate 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Yet when it comes to detail – to one or another architect's dedication to a particular kind of angle, or curve, or squiggle – it can seem quite trivial. Cancer centre 2010-05-01T23:09:00Z Teapot tempests can be trivial affairs — except when you're smack inside the teapot, getting buffeted around. Critics Picks: 'Footnote,' 'Paul McCartney's Live Kisses,' dogshaming.com 2012-08-29T22:37:03Z There is a happy medium between endless boasting and relaying an utterly trivial event from several months ago which merely implies that you don't have much of a life. Keeping my distance from the Stones and how to write a Christmas circular 2012-11-30T14:40:48Z A new person you meet represents a trivial amount of your general social well-being. Carolyn Hax: Is there a cure for nervousness around new people? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Strauss knows that a trivial mishap can signal the end of the world for the people involved. Strauss's Intermezzo: Scottish Opera whip up a perfect storm in a teacup 2011-03-24T22:30:01Z OK, a purely trivial question to end on. Rumer: 'Culture is mediocre because most interesting people are under a duvet' 2012-05-23T14:37:21Z Another lesson: Titles, book covers, author photos and advertising are not trivial matters and should not be left entirely to others. In ‘Avid Reader,’ a Celebrated Editor as Shepherd and Alchemist 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z At its most audacious, the hand dryer is an expression of faith in the mechanical – in the premise that no cubic inch of our day is too trivial to remain unimproved by technology. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z But Kalinda’s testimony amounted to a few trivial exchanges heard through the disabled juror’s disordered senses, rendering the whole dramatic encounter between Geneva and her boss meaningless. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Alicia, the Scary Parent 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Raskatov selects his orchestral palette with care, but the result is inert, a trivial background to what is happening on stage. A Dog's Heart - review 2010-11-21T21:31:00Z With films made for sums that are, in Hollywood terms, trivial, this group and others established a new standard of quality, originality, and authenticity. Kristen Stewart and the Actor’s Dilemma 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z But she does not always help her own case by making assertions that are variously vague, trivial or wrong. On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton – review 2013-05-10T11:00:03Z At these kinds of times, when the nation's future is held in the electoral balance, you realise exactly how silly and trivial the media fiction of "the arts" actually is. Don't vote for "arts" policy in the 2010 general election 2010-04-06T12:17:00Z Their varied contributions cohere into a paradoxical whole, in which the trivial rubs up against the unspeakably serious. Review: ‘Rancho Viejo,’ Where Banality and Trouble Cohabitate 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Another piece peers in on Chuck Close at work in Bridgehampton, N.Y.; no detail is too trivial, down to the spectacles resting on a desk and the bottle of cleaning fluid by the sink. Art Review: Alternative Worlds Where Even McMansions Are Tiny 2011-06-16T23:06:49Z “The Insult,” Lebanon’s official Oscar candidate, is about how a trivial, personal conflict explodes into something much larger, a drama that consumes a city and a nation. Review: In ‘The Insult,’ the Dispute Is Personal. And Political. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The PhD jiggery-pokery is one such trivial thing. Martin Luther King ? a whitewash can be right 2011-04-04T20:00:01Z Some within the Mexican justice system favor lighter treatment for relatively trivial offenders like Mr. Carrillo Hernández as a solution to the overcrowding issue. Singing to Be Heard, Behind Bars in Mexico 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z We were crabbiest, though, when we wanted to get something accomplished — even something trivial, beyond just keeping the kids alive for another day. He can’t seem to follow instructions, and she’s out of patience 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z At the moment, the terms of the bargain look attractive, and the complaints trivial. Dear Movie Industry, We Have Thoughts 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z But that seems a trivial status next to the dark masterpiece that haunted the early 20th century and reminded people of the Ninth. ‘Rite of Spring’ Cools Into a Rite of Passage 2012-09-16T03:27:28Z Though the general public loved the show, critics hated it, with Lawrence Alloway complaining that “the junction of art and technology does not result in cultural lodestones, but in an art of mostly trivial effects.” Review | Looking back at a Bauhaus artist who tried to bridge the gap between science and art 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z In attempting to generate interest, it renders a fascinating and significant subject narrow, dull, and trivial. “Bodied,” Reviewed: The Eminem-Produced Battle-Rap Movie Is a Confused Satire of P.C. Culture 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Suddenly, that trivia game doesn’t seem so trivial. 12 board games that allow homebound Americans to travel in their imagination 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Selinger rattled off the stereotypes that dog romance like this: “It’s fluffy. It’s sentimental, it’s trivial. It’s it deals with emotions and not ideas. It doesn’t stand up to close reading. It doesn’t challenge you.” For Television and Romance Novels, Love at Last? 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Faced with the prospect of parenthood, many would-be moms and dads are consumed by questions that range from the trivial to the profound: Is a bite of soft cheese okay while pregnant? In ‘Egg,’ questions about parenthood might make audiences uncomfortable. That’s the idea. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z So isn’t it trivial to talk of a ballerina merely baring her thighs and calves? Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z Prominent among the novel’s wonders is Clarissa herself, a person more likely, in other novels, to appear as a trivial, foolish and peripheral character. Michael Cunningham on Virginia Woolf’s Literary Revolution 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z While Valentine, the current owner of the house, dismisses their sleuthing as trivial, he is equally obsessed with his ancestors, puzzling over Thomasina's unfinished theorem, in which she mapped the future. Arcadia 2010-05-27T22:30:00Z A trivial frolic set to Poulenc’s irresistibly energetic “Les Biches,” the dance, new in October, is a boating adventure, with painted waves, a large toy sailboat and boring young people being frightfully jolly. Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Gala Looks to Past 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z "Each work by Picasso is a unique piece of autobiography," he said, which signifies that each work is, no matter how dazzling, inherently trivial. Picasso was just a big show-off. Most of his work is inherently trivial 2010-12-12T22:00:00Z Millennials, according to everyone from the Sunday school teachers at Fox News to Jonathan Chait, are overly sensitive “snowflakes,” who cannot handle the most trivial inconvenience without suffering a nervous breakdown. My college students aren’t “snowflakes” — they’re tougher than their critics could imagine 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z And men’s magazines have proven pretty adept at sniffing out the shifts in culture, both trivial and seismic, over the decades — which is one reason they have been around for decades. As Men Are Canceled, So Too Their Magazine Subscriptions 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z The troupe’s s founder and artistic director, Charles Anderson, a former New York City Ballet dancer, included two of his own pieces, each picturesque but trivial. Critic’s Notebook: Dominic Walsh and Others at the Joyce Theater 2013-08-11T22:38:15Z Given the magnitude of what had happened, the trivial was all I could focus on. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z “For me,” he writes in “Mortality,” “to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.” ‘Mortality,’ by Christopher Hitchens 2012-08-31T22:50:05Z But it was the merchants of Venice who fully worked it out, including the seemingly trivial, yet crucial, innovation of recording debits and credits in two separate columns. ‘Double Entry’: crediting the Venetians for creating modern accounting 2012-12-07T00:24:51Z Their writing depicts the flux of life as most of us experience it: not splashy scenes of conflict and discord, but quiet, daily, almost trivial interactions through which we come together and grow apart. Amy Herzog and Others Bring New Voices to Stage 2012-06-07T16:47:59Z But there is nothing trivial in unwanted sexual advances. My brother-in-law sexually assaulted me but my family don’t care | Ask Annalisa Barbieri 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The look at a recent trivia night at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., was anything but trivial. Palm Beach Gets a Younger Groove 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z This is not trivial for a vegetable that is normally given the side job of flavouring other things, such as stocks and soups. Welcome to the feast: exclusive recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi's new book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z It seems no kind of domestic ware was too trivial for Moser to put his stamp on. Art Review: ‘Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna,’ at Neue Galerie 2013-06-06T21:38:06Z The century that separated me from Synge seemed suddenly trivial, and a world beyond these dry stone walls didn’t matter at all. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s just another trivial dance made for a major dancer. Review: Natalia Osipova and Artists Stick to the Familiar at City Center 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z “The words of the songs had all the meat of life in them. Their humor had a bite, it was not trivial. Their tragedy was real, not sentimental.” Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 2014-01-28T06:32:10Z It wasn't as though I had returned the moment the account disappeared, acting as if all world evil had been dealt with, posting my usual trivial nonsense. Twitter is failing to efficiently police child pornography 2012-08-13T13:47:18Z Having established that Jenny is a good person, the film allows her what at first seems to be a trivial lapse. Review: The Hard Road of Decency in ‘The Unknown Girl’ 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In light of these life-or-death stakes, Penn is unsympathetic to what he seems to regard as more trivial abuses closer to home, particularly those involving celebrity exposure. Sean Penn: ‘Some of my best laughs have come out of the worst reviews’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z For Mr. Hall, though, any resonance between television and real life was trivial. Television: Newly Invigorated, Facing Adversaries 2010-09-17T17:50:00Z At its most hysterical, that need can end in teens murdering one another over the most trivial slights. Rewind TV: How TV Ruined Your Life; Scenes from a Teenage Killing; Posh and Posher; The Killing 2011-01-30T00:06:19Z She has managed his moods and counseled him on nearly everything, from the most substantive to the trivial. Hope Hicks returned to the White House to pull Trump across the finish line. Then coronavirus hit. 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z He saw them as all too willing to trade their democratic freedoms for the trivial appeasements of food and fun. With the Ringling era ending, two acrobatic shows fly high with modern takes on the circus 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, tales of female suffering, though profuse, are often dismissed as trivial or self-indulgent. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z That might seem trivial, but the amount of data is immense. Exhibition Review: ‘Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,’ at the Smithsonian 2013-08-29T21:30:18Z Full disclosure: My guilty pleasure is magazines, the more trivial the better. Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Most of us think little of losing an hour of sleep, yet it is anything but trivial. The best thing you can do for your health: sleep well 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z The producer emailed me, asking me a trivial question about the Victorian era which I interpreted as a feeler to test whether I might get involved in some capacity. The Crimson Petal and the White: Watching my novel reborn on TV 2011-04-06T14:13:06Z She was of a generation that had survived the war and found it difficult to complain about relatively trivial things like an unhappy marriage. ‘My parents’ life was a charade. Mum hated every minute of it’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z They cannot, and will not, differentiate between the trivial, the inanimate, and the socially acceptable. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Among the entirely trivial but nevertheless revelatory details we learned about Becks, my favourite were: David Beckham. Jonathan Ross's final Friday Night: an insider review of his last big BBC show 2010-07-16T06:30:00Z Thankfully, his aim is not to Big-Bang the chaos into perfect order, mop up the mess or roadblock the trivial. John McWhorter Takes a Serious Look at Profanity 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z It is based on a trivial staccato tune of arpeggiated notes, which inspired 14 variations, again featuring the piano most prominently. Mendelssohn Piano Trio Studies Beethoven at American Art Museum’s Steinway Series Set "somewhere in Afghanistan or elsewhere" in the near-present, the action is confined to a room where a woman tends her comatose husband, shot weeks before in a trivial brawl over honour. The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z But it rested on 90 hillside acres that could insulate him from an outside world he found increasingly trivial, irrelevant and intrusive. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z Whether a circumstance or an event proves trivial or dramatic, her distress is of a uniformly high order. James Wood’s New Novel Confronts the Mystery of Other Minds 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z These are deep matters, but Jacobson is also good on the more trivial matters on which it is occasionally the duty of the weekly columnist to report. Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It by Howard Jacobson – review 2012-08-21T10:15:01Z Okay, you are thinking that I am obsessing over something trivial, which is true, and that I am very possibly deluded, which is not true. Gene Weingarten: The shtruggle is real 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z It’s also welcome, given how many American movies embrace the trivial as a commercial imperative. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The film was a memorable study of the sort of schism to which any doctrinaire society is prone – apparently trivial, irreconcilably rancorous. Tonight's TV highlights: Great British Food Revival 2011-03-16T00:05:01Z He remained to the end a resolutely independent artist, and he never wavered from his vision of colorful austerity, producing art that was resistant yet never trivial, always clean, bold and deceptively simple. Ellsworth Kelly, the master of the deceptively simple 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z He was the first to invite others to see him as trivial. Rupert Everett: 'Sex is over. I'm not motivated by it any more' 2013-04-21T07:30:01Z He films spectacular pageantry with an eye to what it conceals, sees surfaces as inseparable from the depths below, and so, captures the historical implications of seemingly trivial intimate gestures. Max Ophüls’s “From Mayerling to Sarajevo” 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s easy to feel that little happens in Act 1, but that’s only because we have been trained to think of women talking to each other as being trivial. ‘Becomes a Woman’ Review: A Girl Gets Wise in Brooklyn 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Jokes fly over his head, sarcasm does not register, and when one of his colleagues says, “We’re going to get some lunch,” Turing hears a trivial statement of fact rather than a friendly invitation. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z He said the amount of lorazepam that was found in Jackson's stomach was "trivial." Jackson doc defense begins questioning key expert 2011-10-21T20:22:08Z This film, which was released after the Great Depression and before America’s involvement in World War II, feels oddly relevant at a time when entertainment escapism can feel both necessary and trivial. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Seeing America With Megan Rapinoe’ and ‘The Last Narc’ 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Levin comes, in time, to value these attributes and resigns himself to living with her neediness, her irrationality, her trivial demands. The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In anticipation of that night of rapture and tedium, Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott offer their reflections on the deeper meanings of this spectacularly trivial, paradoxically important, endlessly fascinating and often vexing event. Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott on the Oscars 2012-02-18T02:03:03Z But it’s amazing how often the leading lights of wingnuttery become obsessed with sensationally trivial things. Sorry to break it to you, far-righters: James Bond is not on your team 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Orwell says he records this encounter because, ‘trivial though it may sound . . . it is somehow typical of Spain’. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z This attitude toward Jewish custom is very familiar to me: the Legume Ban might be minor, but it’s far from trivial. And, on Passover, God Gave the Israelites Back Their Legumes 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The problem was that these stories were such breathtaking marvels that they made virtually everything in “Let Me Tell You” seem trivial and inconsequential. New collection of Shirley Jackson writings is best left to devoted fans 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Any event from one's life, however trivial or distant, can be recruited to add muscle to the condemnatory judgment. Bipolar memoirs: What have I done? 2013-04-26T06:30:11Z Often, it can make objects in the galleries seem almost trivial. How to look at Michael Heizer's giant rock at LACMA: the inside view 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The moment they become trivial to you, seriously rethink why you ever wanted to do this for a living. Listen up, doctors: Here’s how to talk to your patients 2012-05-23T11:45:00Z Before I ever saw it, the idea of “The Nutcracker” seemed to embody all that was trivial about ballet: overfamiliar hit tunes, dancing children, dancing toys, dancing sweets. 10 Ways to Tell if Your ‘Nutcracker’ Is Traditional 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z What they objected to in the established church may seem fussy and trivial today: the wearing of surplices, the exchange of wedding rings, making the sign of the cross at baptism. On the Pilgrims? Path Through England and the Netherlands 2011-11-17T20:41:15Z The killing off of fictional teens for the edification of real ones will one day resemble goldfish-swallowing, an idiosyncrasy that’s both trivial and revealing. What’s Missing from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z But these are trivial flaws in a show that displays a lot of poise and professionalism, and deserves a long run. 'Finding Neverland' and 'The Visit': Two Musicals to Savor 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Like its forerunner, “New Year’s Eve” interweaves more than a half-dozen trivial subplots into a cheerlessly cheery mosaic. | ?New Year?s Eve? : Garry Marshall?s Star-Filled ?New Year?s Eve? ? Review 2011-12-08T23:43:32Z Instead we'll focus our attention on a trivial few seconds on a Los Angeles pavement that says more than anything else how things have changed in cinemaland. Close up: Is that Terrence Malick? 2012-06-14T16:57:46Z More damagingly, the thesis that 36 Arguments attempts to dramatise – that religious attitudes are to be found in all sorts of areas of life – is essentially trivial. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God by Rebecca Goldstein | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z To begin with, Croizat believed that natural selection was a trivial part of evolution, not its main driving force. Evolution, but different: Adventures of a Darwin-doubting botanist 2014-01-12T15:00:00Z But she maintains that all of us — adults and children — are overindulging in our devices, devoting ourselves to the trivial. Cultural Studies: Hurricane Sandy Reveals a Life Unplugged 2012-11-09T23:13:30Z The program with which it began last weekend, however, was choreographically trivial. Dance Review: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane at New York Live Arts - Review 2011-09-18T22:16:05Z At first blush Saturday morning, the project’s length seemed almost trivial - until filming started and minutes ticked by with no filming, only fires needing to be to put out. Columbus in spotlight for many film makers 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Because loving an object so trivial isn’t shallow; this is an old love, full of memories from a time and place mostly happy, but ultimately gone. It’s just a little vintage trivet. But in its woven folds, I see my childhood. 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z “Baggage” also brims with incidents that are objectively trivial, but so colorful and wryly recalled that they’re entertaining. Review | Alan Cumming gets chummy in his gossipy and insightful book ‘Baggage’ 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon made a request that seemed both trivial and audacious. Perspective | Cynthia Nixon asked to turn down the AC. It isn’t silly. It’s symbolic. 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z You may at first be fooled into thinking this is just a trivial, slightly incongruous account of a clash between the construction industry and several hip-hop groups. Saudade – by Katsuya Tomita 2012-11-20T16:57:36Z When opera singers deign to sing what, to them, are clearly trivial ditties, they often end up sounding silly and pretentious. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z While it may seem like a trivial issue, toys help children to learn new skills and develop intellectually, says Dinella. Are gendered toys harming childhood development? 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The problem is his material, which is relentlessly trivial, and his nonchalant delivery, which does nothing to inject the trivial with any urgency whatsoever. James Acaster ? review 2011-08-19T17:36:41Z And because he has so little ambition and so trivial a sense of achievement, his moral quandaries, which form a major part of the book, seem out of proportion to us. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Just a year ago, in an interview with The New York Times, Ms. Sherman had a clear opinion about sharing photographs on social media: It was trivial. Cindy Sherman Takes Selfies (as Only She Could) on Instagram 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z There are often important issues at stake in seemingly small-bore design disputes, and no change to the design of anything in the monumental core of Washington is trivial. Perspective | How a rock wall and pool of water have thrown a wrench into the redesign of Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Those may seem irrelevant or trivial correspondences, but I don’t see them that way. Patty Hearst’s America: What “American Heiress” gets wrong (and right) about an insane time and place 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z In elementary school, Donny impressed classmates with his athleticism, shenanigans and refusal to acknowledge mistakes, even one so trivial as misidentifying a popular professional wrestler. Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny was a lot like candidate Donald Trump 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z She saw him hit her mother once – this was the row that prompted their separation – and was troubled by his pleasure in trivial acts of cruelty. Julie Myerson: a life in writing 2013-03-22T17:17:00Z Fans, always quick to share their opinion at the most trivial change in her hair, have been “so forgiving, because we’re all in it together.” When every day is a bad hair day: Getting to the roots of our new reality 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Nor is it the show's smiley-faced misanthropy, which pictures every character as somewhat trivial and pathetic. Something's amiss in "Suburgatory" 2011-09-28T22:29:00Z In any discussion of addiction, whether of the trivial or life-threatening variety, the concept of desire is just as important as that of pleasure. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z Her inner voice yields jokes and asides, a montage of the metaphysical and the trivial, and Woods’s wry yet intimate images provide the deadpan slapstick contrast to her desperate whirl of thought. Forgotten Treasures of Black Women’s Cinema 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z So when the character in says she rejects chemotherapy because: "I like my hair too much", it may sound trivial but I take it as a blow for patients' rights. Who's afraid of the big C? 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z The content of each short ranges from trivial to serious. "Berlin, I Love You" won't bring you down 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z I would like to live a purposeful life, even if for a trivial purpose, as long as it is meaningful to me. Carolyn Hax: Old Me had passion and purpose. Does that always fade with time? 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z There's also one other reason; trivial, yes, but nonetheless true: Rattle's decision not to renew his contract with the Berlin orchestra came out of the blue for the players there. Why Rattle and the LSO would be a perfect match 2013-06-27T14:17:28Z The insult was so trivial that even @realDonaldTrump wouldn’t respond to it. Style Invitational: Cast your Bred here — a new 4-line-poem contest 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The bestseller lists, derived from overlapping and trivial new methods of categorization, now fill most of the back pages. The New York Times Book Review's retirement plan 2013-04-29T15:03:00Z The complexity of “The Future” is contained in its title, which refers simultaneously to a terrifying abstraction — an unknowable territory bounded by death, eternity, the end of time — and to a concrete, trivial fact. | 'The Future': Is That All There Is? Milking Life for More 2011-07-28T22:44:40Z Her fiction humbled me and reminded me that this was no trivial path. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The problems with gender representation on "Squid Game" aren't trivial, when we consider how predatory capitalism has particular, disproportionate impacts on women. “Squid Game” missed an opportunity to show capitalism & patriarchy are one 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z And one thing that is so striking about them is that they often begin with the most trivial kind of observation. “I Don’t Think Character Exists Anymore”: A Conversation with Rachel Cusk 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z It is sometimes maudlin, sometimes trivial and sometimes very moving, but never less than achingly sincere. “Wish I Was Here”: Zach Braff’s controversial Kickstarter comeback 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Everything — murder, betrayal, self-sacrifice, great physical and psychological suffering — ultimately comes to seem trivial compared with the visceral intensity connecting Tim and Virginia. New life for a noir masterpiece: ‘Black Wings Has My Angel’ 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The story makes apocalyptic stakes — the fate of the multiverse; the struggle between good and evil — seem curiously trivial. ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Nothing Out of the Ordinary 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z It’s a question I ask my family almost daily, and the answers, no matter how trivial or small, provide a steadying toehold in a trembling world. In a virtual escape room, a family finds clues for getting through the pandemic 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “We regard it, above all, as a living thing. However trivial it may be, we shall treat it with the respect due to life.” Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z All of that matters, none of it is trivial – and that's what I do. Polly Toynbee: What I am thinking about ... envy 2012-08-25T08:08:56Z There was, then, every incentive to concoct charges or send people to jail for the most trivial offenses: vagrancy, gambling, drinking, partying, hopping a freight car, tarrying too long in town. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z It is easy to dismiss both these debates and the very existence of Instagram-based knitting and sewing communities as trivial. Stitch-up: online sewing community at war over cultural appropriation 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Retaining responsibility for such matters is key to parents ensuring children are protected, even if the task seems trivial or pedantic, or requires you to communicate with your pesky ex. How to help kids survive divorce 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Relentless stories about internal politics at the White House strike him as trivial, not worthy of the breathless treatment they get. Polls show Americans distrust the media. But talk to them, and it’s a very different story. 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Colour was not a trivial detail to Hitchcock: the shading of light and dark on a screen was the larger part of cinema. Alfred Hitchcock: from silent film director to inventor of modern horror 2012-06-15T21:55:07Z His recital included three pieces that might fairly be termed trivial, yet, in context, those works held valid interest. Music Review: Stephen Hough, Putting Piano Music in Perspective 2014-04-14T22:14:42Z Little annoyances that you think ought to be too trivial to care about add up, so it is important to pay attention to the small stuff. The myths of happiness 2013-03-31T21:00:00Z You shouldn't be talking about such trivial matters. Conjuring a fright: what makes a great horror movie? 2013-07-26T12:00:00Z It is a chipper music-hall entertainment that proceeds from the assumption that the world is starved for vintage showbiz lore, no matter how trivial, esoteric and geographically far-flung. Music Review: A Trouper Unleashes Backstage Tales 2010-12-19T23:12:36Z From within the most seemingly trivial love song, she uncovered a stunning depth and complexity of feeling. Review: Barb Jungr Applies Her Emphatic Voice to the Beatles’ Music 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z “The movement to get rid of trivial plastic has taken off. There is a critical mass of consciousness.” You’re Addicted to Plastic. Can You Go Cold Turkey? 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z The front windows display cellophane-wrapped packets of stamps organized according to subject, none considered too trivial. In Paris, Passion Battles the Decline of Stamp Collecting 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z “Here was something tender and warm, with very funny, even comedic setups. But with darkness, too; it wasn’t trivial.” ‘Recipes for Love and Murder’ That Are to Die For 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Michôd takes on an enormous subject that calls for enormous imagination, enormous creativity, enormous audacity, and he renders it anecdotal, ordinary, trivial. Brad Pitt’s “War Machine” Stays on the Surface of American Politics 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z This makes for an occasionally trivial experience, but one senses Gainsbourg doesn’t care — she might have made the film for no one but herself. ‘Jane by Charlotte’ Review: A Mother-Daughter Duet 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, this sort of trivial television realism dominates more of the work than it should; Ms. Driscoll may know how to organize her chaotic scenes, but they remain formulaic. Dance Review | Faye Driscoll: Faye Driscoll?s ?There is so much mad in me? 2010-04-01T21:48:00Z They wrote me back and said something like: “We are not financing research about trivial culture because the result would also be trivial.” Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z Never once in about 3½ total hours of “The Comey Rule” can one completely buy into Daniels’s performance, for reasons as trivial as a haircut and as valid, yet blandly amorphous, as demeanor. Review | Showtime’s ‘The Comey Rule’ is like replaying a nightmare while we’re still having it 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The Slow Food movement has given a worthy, eco-political sheen to subjects once considered trivial and ghettoized in the “women’s” pages. “Dinner: A Love Story” 2012-07-26T16:25:00Z But the selection is so personal and the performances are so exquisitely realized that the result is like a Joseph Cornell box, making even the trivial transcendent. Is streaming a threat to music? Not if musicians have anything to do with it 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z But SPARK’s call to change is not about cranky females being cranky about seemingly trivial stuff. The Google doodles’ big diversity problem 2014-02-28T15:53:00Z The tiny turf wars we wage may seem trivial, but Heller and Salzman convincingly demonstrate they are anything but. Who Owns the Space Behind Your Airplane Seat? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z I always paid him a trivial sum, because I thought it would make him keep coming back for more. The Bonds Between Sex and Books 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z What sort of person would go through so much suffering for such a trivial end result? Andy Daly on Review: 'There is a limit to how horrible things can get' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Their pleasures and comforts are not trivial, but essential. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z With the guys it can be just as silly or trivial, but overall, it’s a great sisterhood and brotherhood. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms: ‘A lot of people only understand a portion of what it takes to govern’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z After that, a chapter on the quest to develop a superior stink bomb seems trivial. Yes, there are maggots: Mary Roach's 'Grunt' delights in the physicalities of going to war 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It glosses over the criminal meanness and fraudulence of a media-fed war that was “trivial, for all its vastness,” as Bertrand Russell, who lived through it, wrote. World War I — The Quick. The Dead. The Artists. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Hooper’s blog posts were mostly trivial and contained few facts; he would post co-ordinates, but only on rare occasions, making it tricky for spectators to discern his whereabouts. Unlucky or deluded? One man’s attempt to swim the Atlantic 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z I love stories about suburban life and the seemingly trivial events that fill the days there. Ellie Kemper: By the Book 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Focusing on this fleeting awkwardness was trivial, of course, a distraction. Modern Love: Broken, Not Bound, by an Intimate Tie 2014-03-27T21:54:34Z By interweaving the trivial, the humorous and the grisliest of the grisly, Chris Womersley straps us in for a shivery ride. Black Death and the Black Arts: A Deadly Fictional Duo 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Some call the play trivial, but it's actually a very witty dissection of the troubling truth that sticks in the craw of every justly paranoid professional with any dignity. What to see on Broadway 2010-12-21T22:44:00Z But afterward, treated by his manager as a commercial workhorse, he spent years making trivial movies and performing as a nostalgia act. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z To tell a story seems a casual thing — a social offering, a trivial occupation. A Tale of Soviet-Era Bucharest Probes the Ties Between Writer and Muse 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z “So I’m distracted for the day with trivial problems.” Working late in life, directors refuse to say cut 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Accountant Rahul Gajjar told jurors on Thursday he suspected the sisters’ spending habits but didn’t tell his employers because it was too trivial. Nigella Lawson’s Aides ‘Spent $124K a Month’ 2013-11-28T19:00:47Z However momentous or trivial the subject, almost nothing that happens here merits even an adjective. ‘The Double Life of Liliane’ review: A novel that blends fact and fiction 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Whose agenda is being served by that portrayal even in the most pointless and trivial celebrity story. Russell Brand on His New Show, Television Sidekicks and All That Salty Language 2012-06-28T12:00:11Z |
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