Word: trivializes
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Whatever the passions, whatever the pressures, it is impossible for the stool-pigeon to be anything but loathsome. But dammit, I couldn't hate Carbone. He was too pitiable. Bill Seres--racing through his early speeches, throwing away the trivial lines in polished Strassberg style, and finally crying, with the whimper of his whole being for "respect"--suckered me into loving him. The secret hopes and anxieties locked within him, isolating him from his wife, from his fellow workers, were too human for me to resist. How could I bring myself to admit he deserved to die? I couldn...
...Decision. Together, Blair and Kantor constructed a case against Culligan-some of it trivial. They objected, for example, to the sumptuous private suite that Culligan keeps at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel for late evenings in town-and for which Curtis is billed...
...chief subject and growing obsession, in both fiction and nonfiction. Himself thoroughly experienced both as a Cambridge scientist and a Whitehall administrator, he has made it disturbingly clear to millions that the motives of men of power are mixed and unpredictable, that even right decisions are often taken for trivial reasons, that even upright and intelligent men are often helpless to defeat inertia or change the results of the system...
...issue of the latest eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation over Cyprus could hardly have been more trivial...
...Democratic National Convention, the networks achieved the impossible. In their frenetic scramble to make the trivial significant and the significant momentous, they succeeded in making the convention seem even duller than dull reality. It was no wonder that, on the climactic night of the nominations, nearly half of all New York City viewers were glued to independent stations offering such attractions as a rerun of an Untouchables episode, a rerun of a Marilyn Monroe documentary, and a rerun of a movie space opera called The Brain from Planet Arous...