Word: trivializes
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...taught. The language is no longer regarded as a common treasure to be hoarded and protected as far as possible. Rather, it is loot . . . to be played with, squandered, plastered on for one's adornment. Literary words imperfectly grasped, meanings assumed from bare inspection, monsters spawned for a trivial cause-these are but a few of the signs of squandering . . . The advertiser bids you 'slip your feet into these easygoing leisuals and breathe a sigh of real comfort' . . . The New Yorker spotted a movie theater sign on which 'adultery' was used to mean 'adulthood...
...vertical concentration, no crèche on the 18th floor, will make up for the handkerchief of private garden . . . The privileges of ... gathering up a tearful toddler within a few seconds of his tumble at play, of quieting a squabble . . . without leaving the milk to boil over may seem trivial to architects; by mothers they are valued much above communal laundries...
...maze of U.S. customs laws, grown up haphazardly since George Washington signed the first tariff act in 1789, has compounded trivial annoyances into major headaches for American importers. Last week Congress provided some aspirin by passing a long-needed customs-simplification bill. The new bill will...
...serious fresh-water fishermen-and no one can be more deadly serious-will not be concentrating on anything as trivial as catfish or smelt as the season rolls along. Their chief targets will be trout, bass (large-& smallmouthed), muskellunge, perch, chain pickerel and northern pike (see color page...
...third time, Russia is having to make a forced march to catch up." Any Hope? Not only Russia, but the World's other West-fearing civilizations -Islam, India, the Far East - have adopted Western technology and ideas in self-defense. But the World has accepted only the more trivial parts of Western civilization: it resolutely rejects Western religion and values. Here, Toynbee's readers get a new Toynbean equation, the Law of En counters: "When a traveling culture-ray is diffracted into its component strands ... by the resistance of a social body upon which it has impinged...