Word: trivializing
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...billion-dollar budget, the amount was trivial enough. But behind it lurked the threat of an ugly showdown at the U.N. next fall. Most of the debt is on assessments voted by the General Assembly to pay for U.N. peace-keeping forces in the Congo and the Gaza Strip. Russia claims the assessments were illegal, has refused to pay for two years. But the U.N. Charter says that any nation whose payments are more than two years in arrears may lose its right to vote, and the U.S. is determined to see that the charter is en forced. The Kremlin...
...place this discussion of spectacle first because Barstow clearly tried to put on a spectacular Richard. The points may seem trivial, but they are examples of how he failed. The costumes and decorations are pretty; the frequent presence on the stage of two dozen people is sometimes impressive. But all this contributes little to the production as a whole, and in many ways it detracts...
...Without continuing study, work--whether in the home or outside, whether paid or volunteer--can become trivial. Similarly, without the opportunities for the use of developed skills, study can become superficial...
After intermission, the orchestra breezed through six not-very-challenging movements of Shostakovitch's Suite from Incidental [and very trivial] Music to Hamlet, half of which sounds like a collection of ditties out of a Gilbert and Sullivan treatment of the play. The other half suggests the score of a Joseph L. Mankiewicz Hamlet starring Mr. and Mrs. Burton...
...Thayer who, by scrupulous study of the sketchbooks, revealed the slow and strangely tentative manner in which Beethoven composed, starting with ideas so trivial they look like a student's and rewriting virtually each bar a dozen times. Thayer's study of Beethoven's correspondence disproved not only the composer's supposed grand love affair with the Countess Giulietta Guicciardi but also alliances with many of the ladies with whom the sentimental 19th century liked to link his name. Factually, Thayer was rarely wrong (although he assumed the Beethoven family had come from Holland, whereas later...