“To make trifle, I’d have told you how to make the custard, how to make the sponge cake, probably even how to make the jam.”

"I remember coming here with my mum to buy trifle and she used to buy chocolate cakes here for me and my brother on our birthdays."

A touch bewildered, a trifle unsteady on his feet.

That Oscar-nominated film is far more gentle and sincere than “Challengers,” a trim, naughty, ferociously well-acted trifle about characters more likely to scrawl something foul on a bathroom stall than quote Heraclitus.

“Could you raise your head a trifle?” he asked again.