Word: trivial
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...effort required to address our current crisis is trivial compared with Britain repelling the Nazis. But the situation is getting more dire. Remember all the talk about how we have been "borrowing from future generations" with the federal deficit, consumer debt and so on? Well, it's been going on for more than a generation, and the future is now. There have been so many false alarms that maybe we can be forgiven for thinking this is another one. But no one is going to forgive those IOUS...
...with iPhone and iPod touch raising the bar, the fun new features seem trivial compared to the revolution brought about by Apple’s other products...
Unless copious usage of butter can be considered a human rights violation, French cuisine fits each of these categories perfectly. On what grounds, then, could UNESCO shoot down the French proposal? Khaznadar’s dismissal seems trivial; given this definition of the ICH, gastronomy should, by all means, be eligible for consideration. Is the committee simply unwilling to accept the consequences of their definition of the ICH? Or is there a problem with the definition itself, if it allows gastronomy to slip into...
...begun to consider this a serious loss. In a way, I’m currently having an existential crisis over the lack of existential crisis in my life. Unlike the young Woody Allen, I do my homework—and polish my resume, agonize about graduate school, write trivial articles for The Crimson, all without thinking about the inexorable outward stretching of the universe (Annie Hall might not be up-to-date on the most recent developments in physics, but every theory I’ve come across ends in inevitable cosmological doom). As an English concentrator...
...pursuing a clearly articulated career goal. For those without a professional plan (and even for those who do have one) there is an implicit mission inherent in attending the world’s greatest university: to sate one’s intellectual curiosity. No minor administrative hurdles and no trivial commute should stand in the way, no matter what the subject at hand...