Both Uses of
trivial
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- I have often thought since on looking back over that strange time that it was that small act, trivial in itself, that striking of that match, that determined the whole aftercourse of both our lives.†
Chpt 7 *
- …or the exploits of King Willow, Iremonger having made a hundred and something second wicket not out for Notts, during which time (completely regardless of Ire) the keeper was intensely occupied loosening an apparently new or secondhand boot which manifestly pinched him as he muttered against whoever it was sold it, all of them who were sufficiently awake enough to be picked out by their facial expressions, that is to say, either simply looking on glumly or passing a trivial remark.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting