Word: trivializing
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...discharged for what on the surface seems to be trivial grounds," Ulam said yesterday, adding, "The facts against him are superficial...
...most interesting theme is the accelerated pace of emotional lives today. These seem not to move to natural rhythms but at the speeds of the media, where the compulsion for at least one new sensation a week hinders the sensible sorting out of the significant from the trivial. Simon's lovers understand that they cannot stay the rush of their feelings: lives are so crowded, things pile up so rapidly that there is a compulsion to lurch after possibilities that might otherwise be explored more thoughtfully...
...wreckage of the '60s. Now and then, someone's shovel blade would strike an unexploded bomb; mostly the air in the '70s was thick with a sense of aftermath, of public passions spent and consciences bewildered. The American gaze turned inward. It distracted itself with diversions trivial or squalid: primal screaming, disaster movies, jogging, disco, Perrier water, pornography. The U.S. lost a President and a war, and not only endured those unique humiliations with grace, but showed enough resilience to bring a Roman-candle burst of spirit to its Bicentennial celebrations...
This is good stuff, David Halberstam would say, And it is; interesting, enlightening, but at root trivial...
...nine items on the agenda were hardly trivial. Among them: Schillebeeckx's views on whether or not Christ personally gave orders to found the church, and whether Christ actually rose from the dead. But the interrogators, representing the Vatican, were concerned about an equally fundamental question: the divinity of Jesus Christ as it has been decreed by the church for 15 centuries. One member of the panel, Jesuit Jean Galot of the Pontifical Gregorian University, had gone so far as to accuse Schillebeeckx, via .Vatican Radio, of the ancient heresy of Arianism, the belief that Jesus is less than...