Word: trivializes
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...dramatic account of the medical effort, Crichton offers a heavy dose of "what this all means" in the context of a changing hospital system. "What this all means" unfortunately has little to do with modern health care and has even less that is not so obvious as to be trivial...
...same number being performed in mirror image and full costume by the old girls as they were three decades earlier in the rear of the stage. The constrast between the two images of these characters and their times (as well as the unexpected double meaning of the trivial lyrics they are singing) produce an effect that is not nostalgic, as one might guess, but harsh and pathetic...
...pressures affecting ordinary college teachers are not present-a recurrent story told to me by peers at the conventions involved Harvard's indifference towards publication. The moral of this story was always the same: when you reach the height of Olympus, you no longer have to worry about such trivial matters as "publishing or perishing." You no longer have to build those statelier mansions for your soul. You can have a quiet stall in Widener library and merely...
Referring to the general financial squeeze, Hoy said, "Obviously, this is a difficult time to make this sort of request." He emphasized, however, that "the money PBH wants is a pathetic, trivial sum in relation to the whole Faculty budget...
...certainly got the best line. The wonder is that The Three Musketeers can get away with such foolishness. It's all so blatantly foolish that the usual objections one feels compelled to raise when faced with such trifling Leeb confections-that so much effort should be directed toward so trivial an end-become a kind of joke. So then. One for all and all for one? Right...