They could not be asked to perform trivial duties.

It seemed ridiculous to waste her time performing such trivial duties, when she was so critically needed aboard Enterprise.

This frees the developer from trivial duties, so they can be more effective.

Brooks smiled and went about trivial duties.

With her other duties so trivial, she finally gave in to temptation, entering her hidden sanctum through a secret panel in the mansion walls.

No time to be slow-witted, this waiting for battle, but a time to attend to tasks, to trivial duties, until the duties become reflex and you return to your thoughts alone.

"Gone to seed," Granby said, disapproving; and indeed they were puffing a little after their first enraged rush, sides heaving visibly: Laurence supposed that they could have very little work, ordinarily, placed here at the capital and on such trivial duty as guarding cattle.

Diefenbaker appointed only one French-speaking member to his first cabinet: Uon Balcer, who became Solicitor General -a supernumerary position with trivial duties.

The archives present a panoply of vignettes, glimpses of the multifarious, largely trivial, but always time-consuming daily duties of a chief administrator.

How indeed, could she conceive anything far outside her own experience, a woman with a commonplace face like hers, a little round red face, upon which trivial duties and trivial spites had drawn lines, whose weak blue eyes saw without intensity or individuality, whose features were blurred, insensitive, and callous?