Word: trivializes
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...determines to lose a lot of weight, once and for all, and let his slothful habits fall by the wayside. The description of his decision and the absurd steps he takes are fine, but after he gets all cranked up, he simply and predictably caves in again. These trivial moments of neo-existential despair wear kind of thin. Alter's prose, given to somewhat untailored lushness, merges with the decidedly out-of-the mainstream setting to produce an interesting novel that doesn't always have a whole lot under the surface. But the threadbare spots in his carefully woven story...
...civilization rests on the dangerous assumption that man is master of the land and other animals, and lives as if he were totally independent from trivial things like ecosystems and food chains. But the simple truth is that man is an animal--albeit a very complex and highly developed one--who is, like all other animals, a mere citizen--not master--of the environment...
...would have moved ahead with a modest tax cut, he says, not tried trivial tax reforms like reducing deductible martini lunches. He would have designed an energy policy to encourage new oil exploration and alternative sources, not to tax them. He would have moved harder for deregulation of natural-gas prices. He would have fought for a more restrictive federal budget and he no doubt would have a string of vetoes hanging on his belt. But he still would have called up his friend House Speaker Tip O'Neill for golf at Burning Tree to rib him about...
...trials of spirit and psyche that all women faced from the time they decided to return to school made such comments by in-laws seem trivial; they were far overshadowed by the logistical problems that all the women there dealt with daily...
...years have not been kind to Person to Person. As one watches Murrow pay his electronic "visits" to famous homesteads, it is hard to ignore the man's obsequiousness. He laughs at his guests' every joke; he helps plug their new books; he hypes their every trivial accomplishment. On these shows Murrow is every bit as lightweight as Mike Douglas-though at least he refrains from picking up a hand mike and belting out songs...