His married life is often filled with trivial arguments and problems.

But all of them seemed to be discussing it as they clustered outside the massive brick building, and expressing their amazement that such a trivial argument could have turned deadly.

The poor parents would relive the tragic results of their trivial argument for the rest of their lives.

She had seen robberies, and at least one murder: a wandering man who had stabbed his companion with a pitchfork after some sort of trivial argument.

This is hardly a trivial argument; the federal government bungled threats it had before Sept. 11, and 2,750 people in New York died.

Unsurprisingly, it wasn't the odd, trivial argument with her mother that Miss Lloyd remembered when she was readying herself for shots.

In any case how trivial any argument based on what human thought demands must be.

"We exist 100 percent on advertising, so I don't think that's a trivial argument."

We must not become bogged down in trivial arguments about the number of Commissioners or the weighting of votes.

Most trivial arguments are said to be based on matters of principle.