Word: triviality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact, the president's proposals consists of band aids for the worst economic basket-cases in the region, patently trivial trade adjustments, and more of the same polices that have failed to help Central America and The West Indies in the past...
Both researchers are longtime NBA fans and their interest in the sport was a primary motivation behind the study. But Karen stressed that simply because the analysis focuses on prejudice in athletics does not mean that its results should be viewed as trivial...
...narrator, Brinnin exposes trivial in themselves, yet typical either of the emerging post-war, trans-Atlantic scene or of an insular, archaic Europe. He tracks his subjects by correspondencv and word of mouth, but stays unobtrusive. Touring America with the French photographer Cartier-Bresson, before the latter is discovered; meeting Eliot in the last years of the poet's life; paying court to Elizabeth Bowen and the Sitwells at a time when their eccentricities far exceeded their faded talents--he watches them with clinical detachment, in the throes of past and irretrievable success or in the pangs preceding recognition...
...effort to chop the huge budget deficits that have been feeding it. In the view of David Stockman, Reagan's chief budget slasher, school lunch subsidies are "a perfect example of an entitlement program that should be reviewed. It entitles a lot of middle-class people to a trivial subsidy, which is nonsensical, because they pay their school lunch bill on April 15. Now that we've cut their tax due on April 15, they ought to start paying their own lunch bill...
...speaking of the jeans -- I probably should mention them since they are the sole attraction by which Warner Bros, hopes to sell this movie -- yes, they have see-through buns. No, the movie is not about them. They are trivial, minor, almost inconsequential. They help explain how Fine Fashions gets out of debt to Mr. Eddie, and that is all. You might say the ad-men exaggerated...