You couldn't talk to him for two minutes about anything without it ending in some triviality.

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Here is all the plenitude and warmth and the triviality and sadness of Los Angeles life.

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Paternity had been reduced to a triviality in the Zulu culture.

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He said police files contained "masses of triviality" about him.

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The Great Before, goes the myth, was a time of peace, plenty and triviality, when we coasted in blissful self-absorption, drunk on day trading, egged on by a selfish, amoral popular culture.

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Amid these ethereal ambitions, there is also triviality.

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There are some circumstances where you might be able to take the whole of your pension pot in cash - in cases of very serious ill-health, with small pension pots on "triviality" grounds and in certain income drawdown arrangements.

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Asked about ambitions to be Prime Minister, Johnson said he wished to serve his remaining time as Mayor and secure a Conservative win at the next general election and added speculation over his career was a "measure of the triviality" in politics.

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