Word: triviality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study is grossly flawed and inaccurate. The republication charge is absurd. The relationship between my two studies is indicated in the opening paragraph of the second article," he said yesterday. "Many of the errors they cite are not errors at all and others were trivial or typographical mistakes...
Getting tired of wholesome TV families? Sick of adorable, wisecracking children? Up to here with Cosby? Well, meet the Schreuder family. Mother is a divorced Manhattan social climber who badgers her young daughter into tears with trivial school lessons, locks her less favored son out of the house for days, and schemes to get money from her rich but miserly father in Utah. One summer she sends her two teenage boys, a pair of grungy rejects from the Dead End Kids, to stay with Gramps and steal his loot. But when he discovers the treachery and cuts off the flow...
Field contended that the cost of such a colony would not be prohibitive. "The amount of money we're talking about is trivial. We can go to Mars for 5 to 10 percent of the defense budget...
That survey found that the most boring behaviors were banality, such as talking about trivial or superficial things or showing interest in only one topic, and "negative egocentrism," which essentially meant complaining about oneself and showing disinterest in others...
...Tahiti, so Matisse took his to the Cote d'Azur. One would logically expect that given the tremendous efforts of ! abstraction and integration that had gone into his work from his fauve paintings of 1905-06 to The Moroccans of 1916, nothing he did thereafter would seem trivial to art historians. Yet such was not the case. Most accounts of Matisse's life treat his first 15 years on the Mediterranean (however much the public liked their results) as a slackening of his talent, almost a betrayal of its essence; he would not entirely recover, this version insists, until...