Word: trivializations
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...Naked Night, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, The Silence, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander and After the Rehearsal, which once constituted a summa-cum-laude cinematic honor roll, have since tumbled into Trivial Pursuit territory...
...that our criticism of Mark Reader, a political science professor at Arizona State University, was "trivial" and that he "is accused of taking too strong a stance against nuclear war." A.I.A. never made such a charge against Reader. It issued a lengthy report on Reader, which pointed out that he was spending a great deal of time in a course supposed to be devoted to political ideologies talking about his fears of all things nuclear, including the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. We said that he should either teach the course as advertised in the college catalog or the course...
...Upon hearing of Schwarz and Green's latest breakthrough in string theory, says Steven Weinberg, a physicist at the University of Texas, "I dropped everything I was doing, including several books I was working on, and started learning everything I could about string theory." That task is far from trivial. "The mathematics," he concedes, "is very difficult...
...Books Stephen Spender's Journals mix big names and trivial pursuits. Ansel Adams' autobiography charts the progress of art and artist...
...appointments was resolved through compromise; Social Security has been talked to death; and the insipid Democrats have refused to confront the President on issues that actually matter, like the need for a comprehensive health-insurance overhaul or the absence of a coherent strategy in Iraq. The titillation of the trivial-the tendency to rate the presidency solely on the polling and politics of the moment-means that Bush has largely escaped judgment on the actual work of his Administration...