Word: trivialize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insensible to the central lesson of Watergate, that a seemingly trivial act can take on such Aeschylean significance as to threaten the balance of the world. But it would be wrong to assign all the blame for that state of affairs to Nixon. There were abuses, and actions that were worse than abuses, on all sides. One need not describe the damage, not the least of which is that the U.S. now has a precedent for the removal of an elected President from office through a process of denunciation rather than due process...
LASSITER IS SUPPOSED to be a vehicle for Magnum P.I.'s star, but its inane script and direction render him trivial (Young, by the way, directed the 1980 pilot episode of Magnum P.I.). Selleck has failed at his second attempt to capture the larger screen (High Road to China came first). His dimpled affability has garnered an affectionate viewership, and enabled him to walk through weekly episodes of a standard-issue television series: geniality, however, is of negligible value during cinematic scenes which grind so slowly, one can hear crew members in the background phoning home for late dinners...
...shockingly knowledgeable about what his daughters are doing in school. It's trivial but obviously important to him. "He took up cross-country m I skiing and horseback riding to spend more time with them...
...organization which prides itself on case by case analysis, the Ad Board has voted an unnecessarily inflexible rule. The College should certainly inform graduate schools of serious offenses such as plagiarism. But do tutors have a similar moral obligation to describe, in a schoolmarmish way, less serious and often trivial cases? Does walking out onto the fire escape in the student's sophomore year warrant's several paragraphs in the House letter...
...approximately four to six thousand applicants vie for 160 slots each year. Most administrators read 60 applications a night in the screening process, and even the most dedicated admissions officer is hard pressed to spend more than six to 10 minutes on an application. Notices of disciplinary action--even trivial incidents, are flags for rejections...