Word: trivializing
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Neither Spence nor Laws would say exactly where the satellite stations might go. "Space is a problem. We don't know where to put them," Laws said. "Finding 500 square feet of space in the Houses is not a trivial matter," he added...
...student intern who was assigned to the White House Office of Media Liaison. Why? Well, these are the kinds of questions often asked by reporters. And that, in turn, is a kind of commentary on the press. Many reporters would rather call the White House on such trivial questions than leaf through the book from which most of the answers came: Jimmy Carter's 1975 autobiography, Why Not the Best...
...South did not generally turn on party lines or the President's popularity. Perhaps because local taxes tend to be lower in the South, there were also fewer manifestations of the tax-cut issue. In fact there were few issues at all: attention seemed to focus on such trivial things as, in Texas, a spurned handshake (Senator Tower's public rebuff to Democrat Robert Krueger) and, in Virginia, a famous wife...
...should not pretend to aspire to the emotional delicacy and technical subtlety of the great classical tradition. Dressed up in bright crayon colors, the ample scenery chunky as a child's blocks, "Cinderella" paints a tongue-in-cheek fable in a collection of surfaces; as spectacle charming, but trivial...
...surface, the plan seems to have trivial implications. Litvak admits that there's a great deal of ego involved--a team's pride in being a part of the top college football division. Yet he calls the restructuring plan "stupid and offensive," explaining it implies that a commitment to college football means you have a big stadium and high attendance. "The plan does not ask for a measurement of commitment, it asks, does the market accept your product?" he explains...