Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applauded for trying to attack, instead of to compensate for, U. S. social ills. As examples of a trend, Boy Slaves and ". . . one-third of a nation" are commendable. Unfortunately, they are also individual products, to be judged according to their merits, and as such they are dishearteningly trivial...
Beneath this trivial hoax lies a real story, about which Miss Warner is as passionately sincere as Don Juan is insincerely passionate. Last year Miss Warner saw Spain first-hand-as a Loyalist nurse. Without being either obvious or partisan, she plants in her 18th-Century story seeds of 20th-Century violence. She pits the peasants of Tenorio Viejo, who want irrigation for their lands, against the Don, who wants lace for his coats and whose income is peasants' rents. The peasants are lovable, clumsily funny, tragically simple. But there is nothing lovable about Miss Warner's Juan...
Yesterday was a nice day, but sort of dull. There was nothing cosmic in it; it was really trivial: too warm to ski, too wet to play touch football. So the four roommates were in their rooms, sitting quietly...
...that his type of customer research must not be regarded merely as a functional activity, but as an operating philosophy which pervades every GM activity. He likes to regard himself as a symbol of a growing trend in Big Business to consider every corporate action, no matter how trivial, from the point of view of how it affects the public. Under this theory public relations becomes an integral part of any manufacturing function, even research. GM baldly admits this: though Henry Weaver's boss is Richard H. Grant, vice president in Charge of Sales, his expenses are borne...
Against this background of trivial gossip and narrow minds, Mr. Carroll has placed the austere Thomas Canon Skerritt, who seeks refuge from football-playing curates and "Dublin's holy hooliganism" in the cold clarity of learning and the classical grandeur of the Church. At the other angle of the triangle is Dermot Francis O'Flingsley, the rebellious schoolmaster who attacks the Canon and the Church as being cruelly aloof from the pain and squalor of life. And at the apex is Brigid, the simple child who was visited by the spirit of her namesake, St. Brigid and who, dying, left...