Word: trivializing
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...ridicule of agony is the cruelest form of torture. To say, “You are not suffering,” to say that your pain is not real is to relegate the reality of the sufferer to the realm of the trivial, the unimportant, or the laughable. Sometimes this torment is deliberate: I kick you and then laugh at you for crying. But in most cases, the willingness to hurt stems from ignorance or a lack of comprehension: I laugh at you because I do not understand...
...story of “The Way of the World,” written by William Congreve, is, in the best tradition of English stage comedies, highly convoluted, fairly trivial, and resolved by marriage. The details, which remain slightly hazy even after the conclusion, are less important than the characters and their relationships...
...books there to make up for the lack of libraries on campus. Lame Idea #4: Make more “freshmen-friendly” spaces so freshmen will have more friends. Lame Idea #5: Use extra endowment money to build nuclear bombs for fun there, rather than dealing with trivial matters like financial aid. What Harvard Oughts to Do: Other Idea #1: Put another fucking music store there. Other Other Idea: Put a few beds in it for Quadlings to nap during the day. Other Other Other Idea: Queen’s Head Pub II, but with free drinks between...
...team has also dug up more than a million artifacts, about twice the number found over the previous half-century, including arms and armor, pottery, clay pipes, clothing and shoes, iron tools, jewelry, animal bones, trade beads, sheets of copper and hundreds of stone points. Individually, these objects seem trivial. Taken together, however, they're yielding an extraordinary picture of who the colonists were and how they lived--something contemporaneous written accounts couldn't come close to doing...
...said he thinks the paper would have run the same correction even if I hadn’t been planning on writing about the incident. The Crimson appears to be fairly responsible about owning up to its mistakes. It publishes one or two corrections most days, generally on more trivial issues...