Word: trivialize
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...realized it was not a trivial explosion, it was a bomb.” Gross said. “But based on the e-mail I knew my brother was okay and I knew that he had called home...
...petty, trivial and selfish one-upmanship her lawsuit reflects—particularly the fact that she is asking for money—turns my stomach and makes me wish she’d chosen Princeton...
...troubled peace that has prevailed in Indonesia's bloody Aceh province for the past four months is on the verge of unraveling. Negotiations between the separatist Free Aceh Movement (known by its Indonesian acronym GAM) and the Indonesian government broke down last week over trivial scheduling and venue changes. Meanwhile, more than 25,000 Indonesian troops in Aceh went on high alert, and the country's Navy chief warned that 14 warships could soon arrive off Aceh's coast...
...that critics feared would have rivaled the Commission. Reijo Kemppinen, a spokesman for the Commission, concluded that the result was not quite a "working document" but a "useful working basis." But resentment toward Giscard's high-handed tactics is still rife. "We spent months doing nothing but talking about trivial matters," says Johannes Voggenhuber, an Austrian Member of the European Parliament and a Convention delegate. "He has lost the confidence of the majority of the members and discredited this body." There's no doubt that the Convention's task is real - and urgent. To prevent gridlock, the E.U. must streamline...
...play starts wonderfully, with a sure sense of how the trivial tensions of married life can escalate into crisis. Henry, an astrophysicist preparing to publish an important paper, is casually told by his boss that another group of researchers has just published a paper on the very same subject, throwing Henry into despair. As the scene is replayed, his reaction to this news shifts and varies, as do other details of the evening, from what snacks the parents decide to feed their restless 6-year-old, to the progress of an illicit romance between Sonia and Henry's boss...