Word: trivializing
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...this of course opens the book up to charges of being mere trivial adventurism, an historical Deliverance with all white water and no significance. And, to an extent, perhaps the charges are true. Allen, a native of that fine old whaling town, New Bedford, is plainly obsessed with all things nautical and often seems more to mourn the founderings of classic yachts than the deaths of those who went down with them. A Wind to Shake the World is thus more a showcase for the battle of man against nature than a display of how people react to each other...
...Leon Eisenberg, Presley Professor of Psychiatry, affirms in an essay on "The Search for Care" that if medical faculty do not convey the importance of primary care, it will be regarded as "trivial, boring and beneath the dignity of a professional physician." He also points out, however, that many of medicine's apparent shortcomings result from patients' expectations that emdicine will fill emotional needs once taken care of by more cohesive families and stronger religious faith. No simple policy decision can make families tight or churches popular. While doctors cannot be expected to replace these institutions, it would be wise...
Such treatment is too trivial for those who lived through the period and too misleading for those who did not. What ever else it was, World War II was not a colorful extravaganza designed to send you out of the theater humming...
...slow on safety. They say that a tough approach would risk retaliation from other countries, who could make life difficult for U.S. ships in foreign ports by jacking up tugboat fees or other nuisance gestures. Says a Washington maritime lawyer: "The risk of retaliation is not a trivial one. It is always a dangerous risk to tighten procedures." But increasingly, Washington will have to balance that risk against the rising public concern in the U.S. about the environmental hazard posed by the ever more numerous tankers plying U.S. waters...
...guess from her work on display here that Germany's Hanna Höch-now 87 and the last surviving artist-member of the Berlin Dada group-was in the 1920s one of the most brilliant and acerbic collagists ever to wield scissors. On the other hand, quite trivial artists are included; probably one cannot have a historical show of women's art without the boring and insipid fribbles of Marie Laurencin, but why include a third-rate vendeuse of exotic surrealist tack like Leonor Fini? In such company, artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Paula Modersohn-Becker...