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  • I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, then at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia.†   (source)
  • You avoid trivia.†   (source)
  • Instead, almost every night it was dinner parties and busy restaurant tables with her friends, strenuous occasions where (jumpy, un-opiated, wracked to the last synapse), it was hard for me to make the proper show of social ardor, particularly when I was tired after work—and then too the wedding preparations, an avalanche of trivia in which I was expected to interest myself as enthusiastically as she, bright tissue-paper flurries of brochures and merchandise.†   (source)
  • Unlike most things in Keats, on Hyperion, Cicero's was not named after some piece of pre-Hegira literary trivia.†   (source)
  • Hard as it is to believe now—as he returns to his mansion and passes through its stone halls toward the magnificent den with its elaborate audiovisual system—there was a time when Steve Wallace worried about such financial trivia as life insurance.†   (source)
  • It was as if they were drunk on trivia, and every Friday was a bender.†   (source)
  • The only reason we were going, he said, was the Trivia Contest.†   (source)
  • Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong Vietnam was full of strange stories, some improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane.†   (source)
  • The teaching staff is composed almost solely of New York emigres, smart, thuggish, movie -mad, trivia-crazed.†   (source)
  • The huge capstone of this obelisk sat directly over his head, and Langdon now recalled a forgotten bit of trivia that seemed to have eerie relevance: the capstone of the Washington Monument weighed precisely thirty-three hundred pounds.†   (source)
  • Below it was another notice: IF YOU INTEND TO WASTE MY TIME ON TRIVIA, YOU'D BETTER GO AWAY NOW!†   (source)
  • Fleming was everything Josh's father wasn t. He was funny, and interested in just about everything Josh did, and his knowledge of trivia was incredible.†   (source)
  • No matter how many clues I solved, I'd be faced with some Amy trivia to unman me.†   (source)
  • What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Yes, but look at it this way—worrying about such trivia is a waste of time.†   (source)
  • As long as he is able to concentrate on his work, he doesn't have to be distracted by practical trivia.†   (source)
  • She might occasionally make time for a weekly night of trivia at a local pizza parlor with friends, but for the most part her social life consisted of short two- or three-line e-mails to friends and a slew of unreturned phone calls.†   (source)
  • The game includes eight contestants (or, in a later daytime version, six) who each answer trivia questions and compete for a single cash jackpot.†   (source)
  • I remembered a random bit of trivia, gleaned from who knows where: Charlie Chaplin was in his seventies when he fathered his youngest child.†   (source)
  • One weekend, Adam and Kelley drove from Hot Springs to Bentonville so Adam could see Sam Walton's original Five & Dime, which had evolved into Wal-Mart—another bit of his Arkansas trivia.†   (source)
  • More than once she'd refused to talk to me on the rare occasions when I managed to answer one of the teacher's trivia questions faster than her.†   (source)
  • In the future I will remember the details of this day, the ordinary trivia illuminated by an event that sends my mind scurrying for significance.†   (source)
  • Then Ferula drew her out of bed with a mother's gentle caresses, telling her the good news from the morning paper, which was less every day, so that she was forced to fill the gaps with gossip about the neighbors, domestic trivia, and made-up anecdotes that Clara found very lovely and forgot within five minutes; thus Ferula could tell the same ones over and over and Clara always enjoyed herself just as if it were the first time she was hearing them.†   (source)
  • Once Yossarian had driven him back from the nose, Aarfy was free to cower on the floor where Yossarian longed to cower, but he stood bolt upright instead with his stumpy arms resting comfortably on the backs of the pilot's and co-pilot's seats, pipe in hand, making affable small talk to McWatt and whoever happened to be co-pilot and pointing out amusing trivia in the sky to the two men, who were too busy to be interested.†   (source)
  • He'd won more than a few bets on that piece of trivia, especially on the rigs, where practically everyone guessed the Mississippi.†   (source)
  • Who would care about such trivia?†   (source)
  • We got whole scrolls of names, people both here and in China, and even names of contributors (all of them minor, not even the stuff of trivia) who helped the students by paying for flyers and banners and the renting of meeting halls.†   (source)
  • God, what a storehouse of trivia he kept up there.†   (source)
  • When I closed my eyes that night, the thoughts that came to my mind were all of my father, his voice telling jokes or odd little bits of trivia about obscure inventors and scientists, people he said society had not properly received.†   (source)
  • He grabbed his right hand with his left, held it steady and pressed his left thumb into the cramp… and as he watched his fingers spread free, he knew what he had to do do without wasting an hour on the all-important unimportant trivia.†   (source)
  • An immense backlog of scientific trivia awaited my attention at the cabin.†   (source)
  • Yet I cannot accept Steiner's suggestion that silence is the answer, that it is best "not to add to the trivia of literary, sociological debate to the unspeakable."†   (source)
  • Mrs. Brown, unbelievably, was more inefficient than I was in compiling the drivel and trivia demanded by the higher administrators.†   (source)
  • When it came time to publish the orders, instead of "routine order of the day" or other trivia, they published Hendrick's court-martial.†   (source)
  • No petty issues, no political trivia, not even private affairs, were permitted to clutter up his intellect.†   (source)
  • Bit difficult without my brother, the Human Wikipedia, around to keep track of such trivia for me.†   (source)
  • And I had told her everything: about the trivia, and the drugs.†   (source)
  • "The Trivia Contest Questions!" he hollered, and everyone cheered and clapped again.†   (source)
  • She knew the coolest bits of '80s trivia—stuff you couldn't learn from books or movies.†   (source)
  • We were constantly trying to out-geek each other with our knowledge of obscure gunter trivia.†   (source)
  • But what I could use some help on is the Trivia Contest.†   (source)
  • But all I could come up with was trivia.†   (source)
  • He had his '80s trivia down cold, and not just the canon stuff, either.†   (source)
  • And this Trivia Contest, according to Ernie Eco, was all about Babe Ruth.†   (source)
  • Does that mean the objects in this room are total trivia?†   (source)
  • You should be focusing on other things now, not trivia from the distant past.†   (source)
  • Cal is reminded of the game they used to play: Grandfather Trivia.†   (source)
  • Siri knew all about the early days of the Hegira-at least insofar as they pertained to the Maui-Covenant and the colonists-and she occasionally would come up with delightful bits of archaic trivia or phraseology, but she knew nothing of post-Hegira realities.†   (source)
  • Instead, I closed my eyes and thought of trivia, again: questions and answers, the solidness and safety of facts.†   (source)
  • And my grandfather was a trivia addict.†   (source)
  • I spent most of my time in Advanced OASIS Studies class annoying our teacher, Mr. Ciders, by pointing out errors in our textbook and raising my hand to interject some relevant bit of Halliday trivia that I (and I alone) thought was interesting.†   (source)
  • Someone yelled that the Trivia Contest was going to start soon and everyone should choose a partner to work with.†   (source)
  • And Ernie Eco said that the prize for the Trivia Contest was going to be a baseball signed by a Yankee.†   (source)
  • There were moments-when Jeopardy came on, in the car during radio trivia challenges, or for practically any question I couldn't answer in any subject-that Rogerson simply amazed me.†   (source)
  • Or what my father thought about a Trivia Contest on the New York Yankees that didn't have a single question about the Babe?†   (source)
  • But today I was trying to cram American history, as well as complaining out loud about my teacher, Mr. Alores, who gave trivia quizzes each Friday for extra credit.†   (source)
  • She smiled back, her head cocked to the side, and I knew she understood it all: trivia, time, our shared sandbox history, Cass, cheerleading, Rogerson, everything.†   (source)
  • Trivia.†   (source)
  • They were simply in a "smart" frame of mind, and, clearly, associating themselves with the idea of something smart, like a professor, made it a lot easier—in that stressful instant after a trivia question was asked—to blurt out the right answer.†   (source)
  • For some people, it manifests itself in the ability to memorize trivia, or excel as doctors, or accurately interpret financial data as a hedge-fund billionaire.†   (source)
  • My father and Lorna had returned from a News Channel 5 promotional trip to the Bahamas, where they'd accompanied a group of viewers who'd won a contest involving sports and weather trivia.†   (source)
  • I wondered if he was trying to fill his head with enough trivia to crowd out the image of the way my face had looked when I'd walked through Charlie's door.†   (source)
  • A player's trivia-answering ability is presumably the only worthwhile factor to consider; race, gender, and age wouldn't seem to matter.†   (source)
  • An analysis of more than 160 episodes reveals that black contestants, in both the early and late rounds of the game, are eliminated at a rate commensurate with their trivia-answering abilities.†   (source)
  • History loves trivia.†   (source)
  • The previous two weeks had been a time of brochures, pictures, facts, history, art, and trivia about Washington, D.C. I had brought road maps to school and we traced our route north on Interstate 95, listed the towns we would pass, and charted the mileage.†   (source)
  • They hang on to Kream-O Pudding, and leave us such trivia as the theater, the movies, the radio, the schools, the book reviews and the criticism of architecture.†   (source)
  • She said that his TRIVIA showed that 'he was more proper to walk before a chair than to ride in one'.†   (source)
  • From off in the rear, the terrible Trivium and the wobbly Gelatinous Giant urged them on with glee.†   (source)
    editor's notes: Trivia, the plural form of this word is used much more commonly than the singular form. Many Latin words that end in "um" are made plural by changing the "um" to "a"--such as trivium to trivia, bacterium to bacteria, and millennium to millennia. In modern writing, changing the "um" to "ums" is also accepted for many Latin words ending in um, but not for any of those listed above.
  • I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.†   (source)
  • With a great effort and many helping paws from Tock, they reached the top of the ridge at last, but only two steps ahead of the furious Trivium.†   (source)
  • RUN!" it urged once more, and now the Humbug, not caring who said it, ran desperately after his two friends, with the Terrible Trivium close behind.†   (source)
  • ", They were all transfixed by the Trivium's soothing voice, but just as he was about to clutch them in his well-manicured fingers a voice cried out," RUN!†   (source)
  • The Wordsnatcher, the Trivium, and the long-nosed, green-eyed, curly-haired, wide-mouthed, thick-necked, broad-shouldered, round-bodied, short-armed, bowlegged, big-footed monster had already spread the alarm throughout the evil, unenlightened mountains.†   (source)
  • The Trivium, who had discovered a mound of pebbles which needed counting, followed no more, but stood at the edge shaking his fist, shouting horrible threats, and promising to rouse every demon in the mountains.†   (source)
  • The riddle of existence is the college curriculum that was laid before the Pharaohs, that was taught in the groves by Plato, that formed the trivium and quadrivium, and is to-day laid before the freedmen's sons by Atlanta University.†   (source)
  • Thro' Trivia's grove they walk; and now behold, And enter now, the temple roof'd with gold.†   (source)
  • The sacred lake of Trivia from afar, The Veline fountains, and sulphureous Nar, Shake at the baleful blast, the signal of the war.†   (source)
  • For this, from Trivia's temple and her wood Are coursers driv'n, who shed their master's blood, Affrighted by the monsters of the flood.†   (source)
  • But Trivia kept in secret shades alone Her care, Hippolytus, to fate unknown; And call'd him Virbius in th' Egerian grove, Where then he liv'd obscure, but safe from Jove.†   (source)
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