Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inventor turned and stared at him. 'I'll see you in hell first. ... Do you suppose I enjoyed seeing my life-work made trivial and ridiculous? I was an inventor ?it was my passion to use the tools of science for the service of mankind. I gave the world light?good light, cheap light. Is it my fault if they used it to outrage the beauty and peace of the night. ?to make a cheap bazaar out of every street and avenue, selling one another cigarettes and chewing gum at the rate of a million candlepower a minute...
...Dishonorable Playwright Sturges exhibits a talent for writing risque themes and a romanticism as all-pervading as that of Grimm and Hans Andersen. But he is not yet a playwright of stature. He can crack a smart joke, can treat sex with refinement; can also devise such ill-assembled, trivial drama as Recapture, which deals with the efforts of an ex-wife (Ann Andrews) and ex-husband (Melvyn Douglas) to regain the bliss of their honeymoon in its original vicinity near Vichy, France. The man becomes practically convinced that reunion is desirable. The woman feels sure it is not. Their...