Word: trivializes
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...importance of subject matter is paramount mostly for the choreographer. It is his source, his dream, his love. For the audience it often makes very little difference what a dance is about; in fact, some of the most famous and successful dances in the world have been on trivial and inconsequential subjects. --Doris Humphrey...
Many battered men manage to convince themselves that their marriages are sound and their beatings are trivial. The British social worker Erin Pizzey, founder of a refuge for battered women in London, notes that abused men are so good at self-deception that they often refuse to acknowledge the beatings at all. "Mostly they don't see themselves on the receiving end," she adds, "even though they're scratched and bitten or hit by instruments." In fact, she says, many of the men who show up at her center are originally reported as wife beaters, but turn...
...proven largely unsuccessful. The idea of doing an album comprised of musical reflections on one central idea is a noble one; but all too often, the listener is bludgeoned with the artist's self-proclaimed sensitivity, the connections are strained, and the themes themselves are pretentious or trivial. In the rare instances where concept albums have succeeded (Randy Newman's Good Ole Boys, for example), the songs have seemed like elements of a large orchestral work; the whole has seemed greater than the sum of its parts. Such records are the exception, though. Concept albums generally fail...
...authors, even of the past and often of dubious quality, are hoisted in the national spotlight. We are expected to listen to musicians who are women not because they are brilliant musicians, but because they are women. Women are complicated, men are easy. Women are important, men are trivial...
...this time of year especially, weather is on everyone's mind-and on everyone's tongue. It is Topic A everywhere, more apt to be chatted about than money, food, sex or even scandals. Nor is it regarded as trivial small talk-"the discourse of fools," as an English proverb has it. Indeed, it is fodder for the conversation of board chairman and bored charwoman, of young and old, of the bright, the dull, the rich and the poor. As if this basic coin of conversation needed to be gilded, the average American constantly reads about the weather...