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Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916. In the original performance Glaspell played the role of Mrs. Hale. The play is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks.
Usage examples of "trifles".
In return, she spewed me some trifles with which I was well acquainted, but which I pretended to think very astonishing.
At first silence reigned, and then the conversation ran on a thousand trifles, as is usual in good society, but by degrees, as I had thought, they returned to the horoscope.
Supper was brought in and we stayed at table till midnight, talking about trifles, but so pleasantly that the time passed away very quickly.
In point of fact she left few shops unvisited, going from jewels to pretty trifles and toys of different kinds, and from these to dresses of the latest fashion, which they displayed before her, addressing her as princess, and saying that this would become her admirably.
One day I ventured to say that these things were but trifles after all, and that I had taken no offence at his omitting the chevalier on the letters he had written to me, though I was a knight of the same order as himself.
History is full of such trifles, and the world is full of people who attach great importance to them in spite of the so-called light of science.
We then spoke of the weather and other trifles until my servant brought my key.
In the meantime let us enjoy all the trifles, all the sweet preliminaries of love.
Rochebaron, obtained for me the favour of being initiated in the sublime trifles of Freemasonry.
We were still occupied in the trifles which keep up an ordinary conversation, when the prince came in running after a waiting-maid, who was making her escape, laughing.
He can play the flute, ride, fence, dance a minuet, change his shirt every day, answer politely, make a graceful bow, talk elegant trifles, and dress well.
They are allowed to gossip about everything, and the writers have the knack of making the merest trifles seem amusing.
There will be much to suffer, and these trifles cannot enter into anything so deep and real.
These and other trifles bearing upon the ceremony of the morning were discussed in pleasant asides, while the report had been read and the note of approval had been proclaimed to Marcantonio, who dropped the arm of his friend and came forward to receive it.
I suppose it would be no great matter for a man regularly brought up to the sea to catch these trifles, if he could only bring his mind fairly to bear upon them.