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Usage examples of trivia.

Women tell me that my encyclopedic knowledge of celebrity trivia is one of the most attractive things about me.

Why else would he say that he wanted her to test his trivia knowledge, having already informed her that his trivia knowledge was something that women found attractive about him?

She was unusually observant lately, especially sensitive to trivia, to atmosphere.

He wrote to Lizzie, inconsequential letters with formal endearments, and received volumes of gossipy pages in response, filled with trivia about Florence, and The Forks, and the extravagances of her mother.

Indeed, the whole issue of black and white, slave and free, was confusing to her, as was much of the rest of the modem world, and she no longer collected gossip or trivia or scandal, because without William she had no one to tell it to, and without darkies she could not go visiting.

And maybe that was the very best definition of loneliness, that those bits of trivia worth recounting set up the resonances of lives shared over the years so that the two of you looked at the incident from the same angle of reference, with no explanations needed.

And Sherman kept telling him not to worry about anything, not to try to get into the trivia of operations, telling him he had far more important work as the spiritual leader of the worldwide flock.

Foy, who are involved in the longest-running trivia contest in our fine county.

Not the woman with an incredible gift for baseball trivia, amazing freckles, and a sexy mouth that gives good blow.

We memorize Passover trivia and go over the items Dad will point to on the seder plate.

He began to wish the pig had eaten MacDonald after all, but put the unworthy thought from his mind and drank the beer Heinrich brought, chatting of inconsequence and trivia until it was polite to take his leave.

Alphonse listened to a tiny digital radio with a pocket phone at the ready, waiting for the ImpacNewzRadio Daily Trivia Question.

That was the number he remembered, but because he had no head for figures or trivia he pulled a sheet of paper out of his chinos pocket and verified it.

Now ARPAnet had mushroomed into Internet, and half of America was sifting through the mountains of hard information and soft trivia carried along the phone and cable wires.

This dabbling with the intricate trivia of human society irked him, and the demon bubbling below the surface was never far away, rising to taunt him.