Word: trivializes
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...something, confronting, is the moment of truth. All frightened people will then avoid the moment of truth entirely, or evade or postpone it until the last possible moment." To Georgia State Psychologist Joen Pagan, however, procrastination may be a kind of subliminal way of sorting the important from the trivial. "When I drag my feet, there's usually some reason," says Fagan. "I feel it, but I don't yet know the real reason...
...woman, Eleanor White, said she felt there was "something very trivial" about Curtis's talk, and added that it left her with "a feeling that society should now concentrate on poor blacks and poor whites, and that the people in-between should be forgotten...
...tried to explain that the US government had already made a non-trivial, indeed perhaps historic, change in its Cuban policy by allowing GM, Ford and Chrysler subsidiaries in Argentina to sell cars and trucks to Cuba. This is quite a departure from US policy of the last decade and a half. I also indicated how it may be possible to use the informal structures of the inter-American system to reincorporate Cuba in at least some international discussions in the hemisphere. Thirdly, I commented that Kissinger's speech--as reported in the newspapers (I have not yet seen...
...that the Corporation is a powerful group, wielding ultimate authority in a far-flung and decentralized bureaucracy in which no one claims to hold power. Yet Corporation members themselves insist they are just another rung in the bureaucratic ladder and that their business is by-and-large routine and trivial...
...theme of the play Applause, a study of theater people in the context of musical comedy. It demands a resourceful cast, for the book by itself renders a potentially compelling drama almost trivial. Scenes seem disjointed and sometimes limp; and the pithy remarks that could add some spunk, are scarce. Moreover, characterizations range only from shallow to hollow. Strouse's and Adams's collaboration on the music and lyrics, while adequate, is certainly not up to par with their Bye Bye Birdie. The score is plagued by a monotonous '60s rhythm and bogged down by four reprises. Music Director KenKatz...