a tempest in a teapot in a sentence

Examples

1. It's a tempest in a teapot, the Big Gulp of gullibility, the Great Tea Scare of 1996.
2. The more I think about this thing, the more I realize it's just a tempest in a teapot.
3. The whole issue seems to be a tempest in a teapot until a clear concept of * why * is presented.
4. The result has been a tempest in a teapot, which would be amusing if the weather weren't turning cold.
5. "I characterize this as a tempest in a teapot, " said Byron Callan, a Merrill Lynch analyst.
6. At first glance, the controversy over the institute's janitorial service would appear to be a tempest in a teapot.
7. "Compared to murder, they were just a tempest in a teapot, " said church member Raymond Hildebrand.
8. Regardless of the specific scope of this request, the entire affair could be accurately described as a tempest in a teapot.
9. Thinking the controversy a tempest in a teapot, he assumed the same pose for a photograph that was published in The Village Voice.
10. All of this was viewed as a tempest in a teapot by Washington, until the two militaries began to spar with each other.