A recent incident, seemingly trivial, illustrates the profound difference that keeps showing up in a variety of situations.

So invest time in talking over even seemingly trivial differences.

And, last week, scientists pursued a seemingly trivial aspect of human behaviour and squeezed something unexpectedly fruity out of it.

These can be seemingly trivial things, such as drinking more water, or more ambitious things, such as stopping smoking or drinking for a period.

These two damaged but hitherto seemingly trivial characters powerfully draw our empathy now, in all their weltering petulance, vanity and self-pity.