Sometimes it even causes them to kill over a trifle if they feel disrespected.
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In it are two items that seemed a trifle bizarre yet are part of a whole.
Being inexperienced and a trifle too eager, I must have moved at lightning speed.
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The resulting trifle was a wonderfully messy treat, not even mildly reminiscent of Luden's cherry lozenges.
No more than a handsome trifle, consumed as easily and pleasantly as a glossy catalogue.
He was embarrassed, he explained, when this trifle he'd intended only for his children was made public.
Bill Gates, number one on the world wealth roster ( see p. 120), pays himself only a trifle.
With its Beatle-esque melody and soft harmonies, it is a lovely romantic trifle.
The perception is that Melbourne is a trifle dull, a city in decline.
But Toyoda shrugged them off, saying with a hearty, perhaps a trifle embarrassed laugh, that he didn't have them memorized.
Currently, the iPhone's "on cell" display is layered a bit like a sandwich (or if you're feeling like dessert, think of a trifle).
The nasty stuff involving the toy-abusing Sid is a trifle scary, too, particularly when his cannibalized playthings appear to menace Woody and Buzz.
Or could it be that he feels a trifle cool towards the rest of the country, and is not inclined to sing its praises?
Hungry he is, but I cannot believe that a president would so trifle with American standing in the Middle East for entirely selfish reasons.
Curiously enough, on both the streaming and downloaded video, audio was noticeably out of sync, rendering the couch potato on-the-go viewing experience a trifle annoying.
If you come to England expecting waxed moustaches, cucumber sandwiches, the tipping of trilbies and regular use of the word "jolly", then you may leave a trifle disappointed.
It is true that most open-skies deals look a trifle one-sided, since America has kept its huge domestic market closed and still restricts foreign ownership.
But, after hearing Maurice Chevalier sing the tuneful trifle, Donnez Moi La Main Mamz'elle Et Ne Dites Rien, he announced that he too wanted to be a "chansonnier".
Arguably, the traditional Tory insistence on a strong defence was beginning to look a trifle more paranoid and the traditional Labour dislike of defence spending a trifle less reckless.
The poll, taken in December, shows that around two-thirds of respondents see democracy as the best system of government, a trifle more than in Latinobarometro's previous poll, taken in 1996.
One reason is that even in ultra-religious South Carolina Mr Inglis's hair-shirt goodness (rather than rent an apartment, he sleeps on an inflatable mattress in his Washington office) can seem a trifle cloying, even unconvincing.
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That seems fitting enough, but we also get panel discussions in TV studios, video feeds, and a genuine British news anchor declaiming iambic pentameters as if from an autocue all a trifle forced, as if Fiennes were concerned that we might be embarrassed, or bored, by the spectacle of the bare play.
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