Word: trivializes
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...made governor if he refrains from convicting his gangster friend for murder. Instead, with icy contempt for his listeners, his career and his gangster friend, he sets out to obtain a conviction. Director George Archainbaud directed State's Attorney with a feeling, rare in the cinema, for the trivial and revealing irrelevance of his characters in speech and action. Good shot: Lawyer Corrigan slipping a wedding ring on the finger of Helen Twelvetrees when he is trying to prove that she is no prostitute...
...contented, conservative nation. Their love of things, their rare ability to love old wines, and high game, and fine linens, and burnished silver, and blended tobacco, and grained woods. Their ability to enjoy and worship the things the Lord has provided in His infinite wisdom which seem small and trivial and unimportant, but which are also great, and necessary and almost terrible in their absence...
Aside from the unconvincing nature of the Herald's information the picture of a metropolitan daily singling out for attack comparatively trivial undergraduate peculation's is a trifle ridiculous. But the charge compares perfectly with the vague sentiment of college men, based on a few proven instances, that responsible positions are frequently abused for personal profit. The accusation obviously cannot be denied, but the proposed cure is singularly superficial...
...college he meets up with an entirely different type of personality, the dissolute son of an aristocratic family, who, despite his foibles, is extremely lovable and truly pathetic. The other chapters are for the most part weak and trivial. The death of Diahilev and the end of the Russian ballet are treated sentimentally; the marriage of Roger's friend, Coronado, amusingly. The rest lacks force. There is a strained attempt at intensity, and a certain superficial sophistication; but little more. The ending with its "Violent new force" about which the publishers talk so glibly leaves...
Landlord and tenant cases provide the principal source of outside work. Although many trivial and amusing cases come to the attention of the Bureau, much valuable service has also been rendered. In the case of a man who was penniless and had all his property taken away from him by his landlady, the Bureau took the case and got a decision from the court to the effect that a boarding house must house at least five members not related to the proprietor. As a result all the property was returned to the rightful owner...