His own goals seemed utterly inconsequential and petty compared to all this.

He knew it; he'd seen the way conversations broke off when he appeared, then resumed about some utterly inconsequential subject.

That one night was very hard and he did wonder, shivering and struggling to stay awake, if he would die here in Sauradia, having lived a brief, utterly inconsequential life.

With the connivance of the press, which ought to know better, television uses these two utterly inconsequential events to create an entire season of game shows.

Ralf poured himself another whisky and, as if he were making some utterly inconsequential remark, he said: 'I need you.'

Sometimes what appear to be utterly inconsequential actions have the most enormous results.

Some of the beautifully crafted but trite, slight and utterly inconsequential novellas that have won in more recent years I had completely forgotten within moments of finishing.

Suddenly he saw his past adventures, his emotions, his desires, his guilts as utterly inconsequential and feeble.

This utterly inconsequential image of an African civil war has stayed with me all my life.

My thoughts fluttered as randomly as a butterfly from one thought to the next, some important, some utterly inconsequential.