Word: trivializes
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...argue that income tax evasion-or winking at gambling, prostitution or even pot-is comparable to major, violent crime. Yet such common transgressions symbolize an important fact: some laws are simply petty, unrealistic, unenforceable or unjust. The discrepancies affect the most trivial as well as the most important matters. If no one had had the courage to challenge state and local segregation
Through all my travels in Greece my overwhelming impression was of the reticence of the people. They just won't talk to anyone unless they know him quite well. Many have been imprisoned for long periods for seemingly trivial offenses. The papers carried word of a man convicted of subverting the state because he played a record by Theodorakis, the greatest modern Greek composer, who happens to be a communist. A similar five year sentence was delivered against a man who had spoken out against the colonels on a public street...
...Beatles say. We all know that politics in-the-streets has its problems; that bruality and anarchy are risky and ugly. But we also know that far greater brutalities than any protesting students can bring about are committed everyday by governments, and that reality makes the Beatles' viewpoint trivial, insensitive, and unnecessary...
...broadcast equivalent of columns. Publisher Bill Moyers, former White House aide, recently went on camera to predict that the next President will be faced with "a national political nervous breakdown." Critic Marya Mannes razzed fashion models who have "no visible sexual equipment." Other commentaries have ranged from the trivial to the trenchant. Samples...
...maid some trivial questions...