Humanity, he tells us in both tomes, is essentially in pursuit of trinkets and baubles, with virtue and wisdom in short supply.
Apart from security and justice, he wants food, shelter, clothing and small luxuries and trinkets with which to delight and bedizen his womenfolk.
Then they will come out and vote, and they will not need any trinkets to induce them to do so.
He cannot say that the £150 million in this company is a bagatelle or a trinket.
I recognise his interest in the arts and his possessive attitude to some art trinkets.
Little trinkets, such as studs and cuff links, are also possessed by almost everyone.
He chose a watch and said that he would have a few other trinkets as well.
She had just had time to pick up a few trinkets, such as one or two clocks and watches and a gold ornament.
