All 11 Uses of
trivial
in
Anna Karenina
- They were speaking of common acquaintances, keeping up the most trivial conversation, but to Kitty it seemed that every word they said was determining their fate and hers.†
Part 1 *
- She felt so light-hearted and serene, she saw so clearly that all that had seemed to her so important on her railway journey was only one of the common trivial incidents of fashionable life, and that she had no reason to feel ashamed before anyone else or before herself.†
Part 1
- There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.†
Part 2
- Trivial as these two observations were, they perplexed her, and she had her doubts as to Madame Stahl.†
Part 2
- This had jarred upon him then, and now her trivial cares and anxieties jarred upon him several times.†
Part 5
- But that did not prevent such quarrels from happening again, and exceedingly often too, on the most unexpected and trivial grounds.†
Part 5
- His work, both on the land and on the book, in which the principles of the new land system were to be laid down, had not been abandoned; but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed to him petty and trivial in comparison with the darkness that overspread all life, now they seemed as unimportant and petty in comparison with the life that lay before him suffused with the brilliant light of happiness.†
Part 5
- But the fact that he had in this transient, trivial life made, as it seemed to him, a few trivial mistakes tortured him as though the eternal salvation in which he believed had no existence.†
Part 5
- But the fact that he had in this transient, trivial life made, as it seemed to him, a few trivial mistakes tortured him as though the eternal salvation in which he believed had no existence.†
Part 5
- Just as Levin had disliked all the trivial preparations for his wedding, as derogatory to the grandeur of the event, now he felt still more offensive the preparations for the approaching birth, the date of which they reckoned, it seemed, on their fingers.†
Part 6
- And all the theories of the significance of the Slav element in the history of the world seemed to him so trivial compared with what was passing in his own soul, that he instantly forgot it all and dropped back into the same frame of mind that he had been in that morning.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting