Word: trivial
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...lawsuit details 12 instances in which inventions of Chase-Riboud have allegedly ended up in the shooting script. However, at least to a critic's eye, many of the examples appear to be trivial or forced. For example, the suit alleges that Chase-Riboud invented the notion that the rebellion's leader, Cinque, had a son, which is also suggested in the film, but other histories say he did indeed have children. One of the suit's most substantive claims is that both works include a fictional black abolitionist who aids in the Africans' legal case. But there...
...chummy, even familial feel that makes it easy to overlook trivial shortcomings. After intermission, president Juliette Lee '98 and treasurer Shenkiat Lim '98 both spoke ingratiatingly about various farewells. In any other campus orchestra this would have been tedious, but here it afforded the audience pleasure...
Flag-burning, school uniforms and V-chips seemed trivial to New Yorkers in the face of the big beefy issues of municipal bankruptcy, urban decay, and criminal danger lurking around every corner. Where campaigns beyond the Hudson strive for a vanilla homogeneity that does not offend or alienate any potential voters, New York politicos have never been afraid to muddy themselves in the racial, ethnic, and social divides within the electorate...
...Cross has an ethical responsibility to ensure that the blood it gives to patients is safe. Lives depend on this issue; it is not trivial. If this requires treating some people differently, perhaps even unfairly, it is unfortunate. Yet, it seems to me to be much more important that everyone receiving blood be protected from diseases than that everyone should have an equal chance to donate and feel warm and fuzzy inside. Giving blood isn't exactly a fundamental right. (I double checked the constitution to be sure.) Let's just hope that no one convinces the administration to throw...
...left with a collection of bizarrely interesting facts, not sure what to do with them: for example, that Easter falls on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Trivial Pursuit, anyone...