Sentences with phrase «a trifle»

We quickly learn that a hot stove is far too dangerous to be trifled with and so we file away in our subconscious any inputs — visual, aural, oral, tactile, and olfactory — that are even remotely related to the danger we call a hot stove.

But billionaires like Trump and Ross don't trifle with details.

No trifle for a family with six kids.

The answer is a trifle complicated — but très fascinating.

Considering that Canada exports over 2 million barrels a day to the US market, getting shortchanged $ 20 per barrel is no trifling matter.

Analysts congratulate management on a «great quarter» and then ask about a seemingly trifling matter.

It is, primarily, because we do not combat it strongly enough, because we do not struggle towards salvation with all our might; secondly, because we do not put sufficient trust in the discoveries of the wise, and do not drink in their words with open hearts; we approach this great problem in too trifling a spirit.

The sum the cooking magnate had cashed in was trifling — around $ 50,000 worth of stocks — but she was prosecuted in the end because there was clear evidence showing she had benefited from insider information and later lied about it.

For example, if the Fed wants to increase the stock of bank reserves by, say, $ 100 billion (admittedly a mere trifle, these days), it has only to purchase $ 100 - billion worth of Treasury securities or other assets from dealers in the secondary or «open» market.

Your intellect is definitely not one to be trifled with... Now go take your meds.

Suddenly the church budget doesn't seem so important, the committees trifling and approval absurd.

Any «Protestant», I prefer small «c» catholic, will say that their commentaries are trifles compared to the apostolic witness.

So many preachers are preaching false doctrine that it seems trifling to focus on this particular preacher.

Chesterton joyfully develops his Trifles thesis in further essays, with titles like «A Piece of Chalk,» «The Extraordinary Cabman,» «On Lying in Bed» and «What I Found in My Pocket.»

One of my favorite modern parables is G.K. Chesterton's Tremendous Trifles.

It is not just a «trifle» debate, you do a disservice to everyone when you act as if you have it right and we theologians are arrogant.

• Rather than examine hard evidence, she deals in trifles and inflates them into richly colored balloons of generalization.

How unfortunate that she must endure the trifling conversation of successful women.

At times I'd have to remind Nino when his kids were born: «Catherine is 1966, Mary 1968, Paul in 1970...» I had a strange memory for these things, a picker up of trifles.

The spiritual realm is nothing to be trifled with, and we ignore it at our own peril.

Those who walked on their knees left trails of blood on the rocky pavement, though their friends spread towels before them to make their way a trifle easier.

The reader is deluged with tedious genealogies, military roll calls, «nuts and bolts» inventories of tabernacles and temples, meticulous ceremonial codes, lists of petty kings, and an array of trifling events and curious tales.

So the very learned Polos found it tiresome that Socrates always talked about meat and drink and doctors, and similar unworthy trifles, which Polos deemed beneath him (Gorgias).

«My notion would be that anything which possesses any sort of power to affect another, or to be affected by another, if only for a single moment, however trifling the cause and however slight the effect, has real existence.

The world has been waiting a long time for Black Panther, a film that doesn't settle for fleeting entertaining trifles and instead delivers something unlike any superhero movie you've seen before.

An abnormal sense of guilt over trifles is not only a sign of extreme nervousness, but can have very devastating effects on one's whole mental outlook.

But when a person chronically pities himself, rebels at fate and thinks the world or the Lord has a grudge against him, gets angry over trifles and scolds or swears at the people around him, frustration is likely to be at the bottom of it.

Such persons discern trifles.

An «all knowing» creator wouldn't be engaging in trifle conversation such as this in the least.

There is a simple physiological explanation of this trifling incident....

At the very least, you wouldn't bore the rest of us with trifling comments that show you haven't read a single word of the column at hand.

His interpretation was, if anything, a trifle more celebratory than most.

The infinite qualitative solidarity of Sacredness might not be a trifling matter in the view of, say, the 38 Americans in «death row» cells right now.

With three languages — English, German and French — as channels of expression in every session and with traditional misunderstandings and sectarian prejudices, there would be, of necessity, some critical moments, but the chairmen always so wisely steered the conference out of troubled waters that those instances which did occur were of trifling consequence by the side of the spirit of gracious fellowship which pervaded the delegates both in the conference sessions and in the university halls and hotel lobbies.

Today the shelves of Christian bookstores bulge with material that makes Charlie Shedd look like a prophetic sage (even if he did recommend only a trifling 15 minutes of exercise per day) rather than an object of easy derision.

Brahmins and their Nair supervisors, although living far away from the territory of Malayarayan tribes received, «trifling rents from the Arrians for their fruit - trees and cultivated land, and besides this, each headman had to furnish a certain quantity of honey for the raja's birthday, dig a few elephant pits, and help, with bark ropes, to conduct the animals, when trapped, into the taming cages.

How foolish it would be to keep spending our money and labor on trifles when the most valuable thing we could ever imagine is offered as a gift, today!

Even if this total is underestimated, the number is trifling in contrast to the audiences reached today by his disciples who utilize the airwaves.

He who reaches that place truly wills himself from self to perish; all he lately knew, seen newly, seems trifles unfit to cherish; his new knowledge grows to flourish so that he lingers there, going past the boundaries of knowing.

Philip Vander Elst and Evolution Dear Fr Editor, The little editorial disclaimer at the beginning of Philip Vander Elst's article in the last issue (Faith Jan / Feb 2003) regarding his position on evolution was a trifle sad.

Sometimes he seems to have come close to paranoia and allowed trifling upsets to rankle.

Fanny recognizes this from the beginning — he trifles, he flirts, at every moment he is playing a part — but, importantly, it is never the same part twice.

I love a trifle in a band like NRBQ.

What kind of God is this, that trifles with the lives and flesh of human beings in order to win a bet?

He walked hastily forward, determined to seize the first opportunity, of however humble a kind, to gain any money, though it were ever so despicable a trifle, and resolved absolutely not to spend, if he could help it, a farthing of whatever he might obtain.

There are trifling, sneering attitudes even towards the whole of life; and in some men these attitudes are final and systematic.

The world has been waiting a long time for Black Panther, a film that doesn't settle for fleeting entertaining trifles and instead delivers something unlike any superhero movie you've seen...

«The image of the armed settler appears a grand mythology intended to formulate a portrait of Americans as many would like to see them: people not to be trifled with, not willing to put up with ill treatment, and very violent....

After all, a direct and obvious discussion of what is generally regarded as a trifle is to have one's essay tossed away, unread.

It is supposed to be difficult to understand Hegel, but to understand Abraham is a trifle.