Both Uses of
trivial
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 13 chapter version
- He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion, for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.†
Chpt 2
- He had been always enthralled by the methods of science, but the ordinary subject-matter of science had seemed to him trivial and of no import.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(trivial) of little importance -- sometimes more specifically describing a challenge as easy and uninteresting