Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trott loses his religious faith and drifts into leftist political circles. He votes Socialist in the 1930 elections. In short, MacDonogh tells us much about the trivial details of Trott's life, but fails to link them together in a coherent portrait of a human being...
...courtroom, the University seems to have had a sudden change of heart. In this case, the University is basically saying that lack of faculty diversity does not significantly affect a student's education--an argument which implies that the advantages of diversity are trivial...
...truth is that the effects of the dearth of women and minority professors at the Law School are anything but trivial. It denies all students the benefits of learning from a faculty with a wide range of perspectives and knowledge. And the lack of role models for women and minority students perpetuates a stigma of inferiority...
...cheese-paring, tentative leadership Washington is providing now. James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, says that by overthrowing communism, "the Russians have done something big and heroic. They perceive us as, in effect, not responding except in petty ways. Our response has so far been hesitant in tone, trivial in content and very nearly humiliating in its effect." As one dramatic signal, Billington favors an exchange program that would send 50,000 Russians to the U.S. for training...
...writers themselves are intelligent, articulate women, but the interviewers' blatant fawning frequently makes the interviews seem trivial and stilly. Many of the women are interviewed in their homes or in cozy little cafes near their homes and Pearlman and Henderson spare no words communicating the picayune domestic details of their surroundings. Their voyeuristic glee at seeing Godwin's indoor pool or overhearing one of Fischer's personal telephone conversations is embarrassing. Italics and exclamation points abound. The opening paragraph of Pearlman's interview with Erdrich is only one salient sample...