Word: trivializations
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...courage to go to $19.91." So Walker introduced an amendment to reduce the $50 billion farm bill by 0.0000000002%. (That would, however, have cut $10 or so from the bill; his figure should have been 0.0000000004%.) By a 214-to-175 vote, the bid to save the taxpayers that trivial amount was defeated. So, as usual, were the taxpayers. It costs $480 a page to print the Congressional Record. Reporting the debate and vote on the Walker amendment consumed 3 1/2 pages...
Despite the way a flag-protection amendment threatens to trivialize politics, its opponents would be making a dangerous mistake to think that the sentiments it reflects are trivial. The Republican resurgence that began in 1968 has been based on a widely shared feeling that America's social fabric is being frayed by the denigration of mainstream values by fringe groups and their apologists. Flag burning stands out as a most egregious example of civil sacrilege, and inflammatory television shots of publicity seekers like the ones who declared last Thursday "Flag Desecration Day" -- it was actually Flag Day -- understandably heighten popular...
...then, asked a reporter, could Bush be sincere about no preconditions? Were there any circumstances, another inquired, under which he would trade new taxes for cuts in federal spending? "You've got a one-track mind on a trivial question," Sununu snapped, his voice rising. "Small minds ask small questions...
...most probing reader. Furthermore, did The Crimson find this bland, innocuous headline sufficient? Is that the kind of headline the speech inspired? It seems as if the attitude of The Crimson towards Jackson is one of boredom and satiation. The Crimson might as well have had a headline as trivial as "Jackson Cuts His Toenails, Again...
Haskell throws just enough tantrums to keep us from hating her perfection and offers observations at once trivial and absolutely true. She explains the bargain of married love: "We seek affection, closeness, intimacy, togetherness, a buffer against chaos, then wonder why we no longer experience the frisson of sexual longing." She fears she may become one of the women waiting in the halls who no longer have husbands "to consecrate the banalities of life, turn them into little miracles...