Word: trivializes
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...Plattsburg since last April, for at the time of the first camp they were too young to enter. They spent hard months at Cambridge and hard weeks at Barre with a serious purpose, and when they were finally appointed for further and sterner competition, they entered with no trivial aims. The entire University may now read the list of newly commissioned officers with great satisfaction. Many more than three score Harvard men were given positions of authority by the Government. Their success only increases our admiration for them. But it likewise makes us see more clearly what a thoroughly able...
...those who in the more artificial and constrained social order of the college would never have occasion to meet, and would never form an intimacy should they meet, working together on a just and natural plane of parity. The distinctions of class, of race, of money, poor and trivial as they are, have vanished...
...Paulding describes an affair of the heart in very different vein. He, too, is subtle and sensitive, bat not a bit serious, and he makes us feel that his irresponsible hero is an actual human, attractive, normal Harvard undergraduate, a trivial person, no doubt, but far more appealing than the disembodied soul who suffers through the story by Mr. Wright. Mr. Paulding has not made an important contribution to American fiction, but he has written easily the best thing in the Monthly, which leads one to hope that he will keep on writing college stories with the same delicate...
...blame such a play as "The Professor's Love Story" for having no seriousness of purpose were as silly a to blame Watteau for lacking the violent passion of a cartoonist like Boardman Robinson. To say that the play is trivial is merely to tell a lie. It is, moreover, to forget that there are such qualities as subtlety and niceness and that their effect may be quite a powerful as that produced by the shouting of a Danton. Barrie may be a greater influence than Brieux...
...theatre-going public has been used to seeing Margaret Romaine and Clifton Crawford in trivial but well-done vehicles and it was most disappointing to have the former sing unintelligible tunes well, which were wholly out of place, and have the latter revivify all his old business, which was once pleasing, but might well have been buried long ago. One continually looked for a deus-ex-machina to appear, but he evidently was not so disposed. The settings were attractive and the chorus also, but even these essentials were not sufficient to make one leave the play-house...