Word: trivializes
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...There has been recently a lot of talk by public men and the press over the alarming concentration of power in the Federal Government at Washington. Most of the talk as well as the comment has been general and little of it specific. . . . This all seems trivial to me, in contrast with other things that have happened...
...slowly passed through the 500-foot tunnel kiln which Harbison-Walker's President Lewis is having built at East Chicago. In passage they will endure a heat of 2,700° Fahrenheit. (Temperature of boiling water is 212° F.) Spoilage of bricks is expected to be trivial...
...that occur when dying ceases to be an abstract and impossible conjecture, and when it becomes instead a positive and immediate thing to be done, like eating breakfast. David Bloch develops a paradoxical sensitiveness to stimuli; the two girls he liked, his friends, even his own senses, his most trivial actions become vastly important by their relation to death. In precise and beautiful language, Author River, a young man whose first book this is, explores so thoroughly that he makes no attempt to solve what is the most astounding question, the most unbelievable fact...
Comparatively trivial accomplishments have a disconcerting way of appearing side by side with the mightiest deeds in the history of the great. It may be purely a weakness for the anecdote, but more often it is the recognition of an intrinsic merit of personal method, which ranks the first trans-atlantic passage on a popular par with the first successful attempt to stand an egg on end. And so it may be that unborn generations of Harvard Presidents will mention in the same breath the development of the tutorial system with the creation of a standard and unmistakable...
...bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with his ward. Because of a trivial offense heedlessly committed after his release, this virtuous man is mercilessly hounded by Police Inspector Javert. At the summit of every achievement, Valjean is forced to flee from the scene of his good work by the appearance of this symbol of lawful duty, this relentless fury...