Word: trivialized
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...current wave of antipress feeling in the U.S. may have spread to Britain as well. Audiences at London's National Theater, which in 1972 staged an acclaimed revival of The Front Page, are cheering now for Pravda, a coruscating, comic attack on Fleet Street that portrays reporters as timid, trivial and truckling and that describes a newspaper as "the foundry of lies." (The ironic title is Russian for "truth" and also the name of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper...
Huang enjoyed many departmental courses, especially his sophomore tutorial, but says he hated Core science courses and Government 30, "Introduction to American Government." He characterized that required course as "very trivial...
...Hitchcock in The Dark Side of Genius. But Spoto's The Kindness of Strangers is merely thorough, precise and methodical. Almost perversely, it stops short of risking deep perception of the playwright or his plays: it focuses instead on a tedious hunt for the minutiae of names, addresses and trivial incidents that made their way from Williams' life into his art. Spoto's writing lacks lilt, and his themes often bog down in a glut of detail. The book's most conspicuous shortcoming is an absence of the engaging Williams voice and personality as they emerged in his chatty, scurrilous...
Their debut album, Ratilesnake, has crawled into a dark hole in the charts, but it contains understated pop that, while not obviously challenging doesn't dip into the insultingly trivial Rattlesnake suffers from overly wimpy production with Barry Manilow string backups and too little bass or drum support one almost thinks that 'Producer Paul Hardiman' is a pseudonym for James Taylor...
...activism should not be confused to divestment. One of the most disturbing things about divestment rallies is that, as trivial as they are in comparison with other schools rallies they are far and away the cost radica on Harvard's campus...