1 In silence, only rarely exchanging a few insignificant words, our friends travelled as far as Fedot's.
2 The four hours were spent in insignificant discussion of one thing and another; Anna Sergyevna both listened and spoke without a smile.
3 By the way, do you know I used not quite to understand your close friendship with Arkady Nikolaitch; I thought him rather insignificant.
4 By then he had taken to cutting me in the street, and I suspected that he was afraid of compromising himself by greeting a personage as insignificant as me.
5 After the anecdote the conversation broke up into insignificant small talk about the last and next balls, about theatricals, and who would meet whom, and when and where.
6 These sayings were prepared in the inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to drawing room.
7 Into the insignificant, trifling, and artificial interests uniting that society had entered the simple feeling of the attraction of a healthy and handsome young man and woman for one another.
8 Each time that these hints began to make the countess anxious and she glanced uneasily at the count and at Anna Mikhaylovna, the latter very adroitly turned the conversation to insignificant matters.
9 Everything seemed so futile and insignificant in comparison with the stern and solemn train of thought that weakness from loss of blood, suffering, and the nearness of death aroused in him.
10 , whom he knew in society mostly as weak and insignificant men.
11 Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well.
12 Many various, indifferent, and insignificant people appeared before him.
13 They were for the most part quite insignificant trifles, but did not seem so to the mother or to the father either, now that he read this diary about his children for the first time.
14 It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
15 Her sense of irony never quite deserted her, and she could still note, with self-directed derision, the abnormal value suddenly acquired by the most tiresome and insignificant details of her former life.