Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some] politicians in Washington seem to think that the Korean campaign will be a trivial one, in which a few of our forces will get some combat experience for a month or two, and it will then be polished...
...water glass and scratched herself on the neck with the ragged edge. The Los Angeles Mirror headlined JUDY GARLAND CUTS THROAT-and all the sob sisters were off in full cry. Judy's husband, topnotch Director Vincente (The Clock) Minnelli, assured reporters that the incident was "too trivial" to discuss...
Though the movie is oversimplified, occasionally awkward, given to coincidence and saddled with a hand-me-down musical score, its imperfections seem trivial alongside its rough-hewn virtues. Using unvarnished photography on the streets, interiors and people of real California towns, Director Joseph Losey has given the picture a startling look of reality. For the setting of his manhunt's climax, he takes imaginative advantage of the stony, rolling wastes of a vast gold-dredging field. His mob scenes crackle with a spontaneous movement and raw vitality usually found only in bang-up newsreel footage...
Repetition is a very difficult technique for a playwright to use; if employed too little, it seems like a series of trivial mistakes; if used too frequently, it is monotonous. Getrude Stein, however, is an artist at repetition--of words, of thoughts, of dramatic situations. In her play, "Yes Is For a Very Young Man," the obvious use of this technique is in the repeating of single words; in the first act, "yes" is exhausted of all its symbolic meaning in an excellent dialogue between Ferdinand, a young, confused French boy and Constance, a characterization of Gertrude Stein herself. There...
...better by presenting petitions to the proper College authorities, or merely by leaving, than by cheapening their newspaper with a deluge of trite beefs. However, it seemed to us that most of the letters were written in a spirit of levity; if not, their feverish carnestness about so trivial a matter produced the same effect...