Word: trivializing
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...class in the first few meetings. I have found that students appreciate having the ground rules clearly defined from the start. By letting the class know exactly what is expected of them, the teaching fellow is saying, "I know you're concerned about these things and they're not trivial matters." However, understanding the concerns of a class does not mean being a lax instructor. The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement...
...fairly be said, first of all, that the points made in the editorial are well taken. That the issue of longer library hours is trivial in the larger scheme of things is undeniable. This is made obvious in the contrast of this minor issue with the issue of American imperialism in El Salvador that appeared in an accompanying editorial. Even in the smaller scheme of things that constitutes Harvard University, the issue is relatively insignificant, as is clear from the issue of institutional sexism that was raised in yet another accompanying editorial...
Despite all the evidence of a deal, some nagging specifics had to be worked out at the last moment. Iran's Nabavi termed them "trivial details." A U.S. State Department official said that the precise time at which both sides would begin to carry out the release terms still had to be decided, but he added: "For all practical purposes, there is agreement." U.S. officials expected the Americans to be out of Iran before Ronald Reagan was inaugurated. On a top-secret document in Tehran, Iranian Prime Minister Muhammed Ali Raja'i wrote: "Transfer scheduled for Tuesday morning...
Every action, gesture and word by a President-elect and his staff becomes symbolic of something larger expected later. Every contact, every appointee is a declaration of policy that may rock the world. Nothing is too trivial, remote or obscure. Already the quivering hordes of analysts have perceived the Rea gan global strategist (Alexander Haig), most powerful legislative ally (Paul Laxalt), shadow behind the power (Richard Nixon), new fashion color (brown...
...have departed from the American novel. In the novels of Hemingway almost no work is good work-or, much the same thing, manly work-unless it confronts danger; one is permitted to be a bullfighter, a fisherman, a soldier, and of course a novelist, but all other work is trivial. In the work of a more rounded novelist, Willa Cather ... success is admired, but only success in the past: the new men that have arisen to seize it are grubby, narrow, without vision, unlike the heroic pioneer generation with its integrity, honor, heroism. William Faulkner turned in a similar performance...