And the trouble might be no deep matter, but the trivial annoyance of a day, soon forgotten.

The instant the image of the Red Star reached her brain, such trivial annoyance evaporated.

With mild chaos it's just a fairly trivial annoyance: "They've taken all the fu**ing bread already Nan" that might last no more than 12 or 24 hours.

A mean little revenge, thought Tarzan, and then suddenly it occurred to him that the man would not be such a fool as to antagonize him through a trivial annoyance of so petty a description.

I was looking into his eyes and laughing, laughing as we always did over some trivial annoyance of his day.

Some horses also like to tease us, to irritate us with trivial annoyances - and especially in front of an audience.

But these paroxysms seldom occurred, and in them my big-hearted shipmate vented the bile which more calm-tempered individuals get rid of by a continual pettishness at trivial annoyances.

Murgen's strategy, to monopolize Tamurello's energies with trivial annoyances, seemed generally to be successful.

But the golden promise of the morrow had armed us against all such trivial annoyances, and we waved the fellow aside with a disdain that appeared to astonish if not to subdue him.

So we dismiss little failures - like the repeated loss of a space shuttle's insulating tiles launchings - as trivial annoyances rather than preludes to catastrophe.