Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...milieu, littered with caricatures of producers, dancers and composers. ("But they're caricatures in real life!" Fosse would probably cry. But so are a lot of people, and it's the artist's responsibility to uncover the quivering jelly of humanity beneath.) Gideon's sexual relationships are adolescent and trivial; his steadiest girlfriend (Ann Reinking) is a good dancer and very trite. "I just want to love you," she tells Gideon, a line which has probably been uttered millions of times in millions of bedrooms and you've probably uttered it yourself; but when that's all there...
...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...