Word: trivializes
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...serve. Men like Stephen D. Martin, who had the job of making schoolboys into soldiers and did it without foolishly trying to make basic training equivalent to military school; men with enough sense of humor to distinguish between the serious demands of that training and some of its more trivial side effects. Men like Charles L. Ricks, one of the 696 Aggies killed in World War II, who lives in my memory as the finest field grade officer I ever knew. A man who was as willing to die for his men as he was to live with them...
Senator Goldwater had something there, but what was wrong with U.S. TV? Bad producers? Meddling sponsors? Too many commercials? Well, maybe. But Goldwater had a sweeping political-sociological explanation. "I do not believe," said he, "in our present social state, dominated as it is by a trivial conception of man-dominated as it is by superficial reformers who expect to save and to protect and to remake man through government action-I do not believe that either great tragedy or great comedy is possible in such an environment...
...this movie won't make anybody believe it or even care. The moviemakers clearly want people to care. Director Vincente Minnelli and Actor Douglas have worked hard on the film. They are dead serious-and therein lies their error: the subject is too trivial for serious treatment. It could probably be more tellingly developed as a farce. Imagine all those cinemoguls washing their dirty Lincolns in public...
Like most Negro church services here, NAACP meetings usually get underway about 45 minutes late. They are usually held in a formally arranged church meeting hall, which permits a fairly strict adherence to parlimentary order. Even the most trivial decisions must be moved, seconded, and then voted upon...
...major revolutions in the French (or World) theatre, they were, all the same, uncontested experts in the no less noble endeavor of showing their contemporaries the laughable side of a life too often taken too seriously by too many. This is not to say that their works are necessarily trivial. One the contrary; they can, and often do, contain food for reflection, albeit of an easy-going and not-too-taxing variety...