Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second room features portraits, including my favorite painting in the show, "The Breakfast Table," by John Singer Sargent. Sargent depicts a young girl reading a book while peeling an orange--one very ordinary moment in one anonymous girl's life. Trivial, yes, but hardly insignificant...
...undergraduate lecture, the visitors see a vast array of scattered and discreet images images of Harvard. For some students, a tour may be a pivotal factor in the final college decision. A sunny day or a friendly leader can make all the difference. Others may dismiss the tour as trivial and ephemeral and base their decision on more substantive factors...
...recent letter to The Crimson, a noted Sociology professor commented on the conflict: "You would think that Harvard professors would have something better to do than engage in this trivial interdepartmental bickering. We cultural relativists in the social sciences are much too mature for such banal jealousies. We recognize that all academic disciplines have their proper place in this institution...
While most of the errors are trivial or benign, others can wreak havoc. For the most part, people remain blissfully unaware of the problems until, like $ me, they are mysteriously stripped of a credit card or rejected for a loan. Says M.E. Buckner, president of Informative Research, a mortgage-credit- reporting company in Anaheim, Calif.: "There are mistakes in the system, and we have mechanisms to correct them, but you correct the system only when a consumer complains...
...There's nothing trivial about Watergate...