Word: trivialness
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...tutoring younger children gives one a sense of responsibility and purpose that is satisfying in its own way. I can’t help but feel that in the long run, the pleasure derived from these types of activities is far more valuable and meaningful than the trivial amusement drawn from endless nights of partying...
...Twitter changed blogging? I see it as a good thing. It's redefining blogging as an outlet for things you can't say in 140 characters. And ironically, it's making blogging more substantial. In the early days, blogging was dismissed as trivial and mundane and full of these messages about what you were having for lunch. Those messages are now on Twitter - among other things, of course - while blogs can serve as a public sphere for ideas and a place where people exercise creativity and self-expression. (See 10 ways Twitter will change American business...
...news from the nation's capital. As a student of the form, I marveled at Cronkite's consistency. Night after night, the news might change, but Uncle Walter could be found at the head of the table. When he did break from his objective cadence, it was not trivial: there was his famous commentary on Vietnam and, later that year, his personal remarks from the anchor booth on the rough tactics of the security guards at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
...rapper. Borat is a rube and an anti-Semite. This is why the inevitable debate over whether the new film is a critique of homophobia or an incitement to more of it misses the point. Brüno sees everybody in the pejorative, including Brüno, who is trivial, narcissistic, mean to his devoted assistant and obsessed with cheesy fame. But even so, he's preferable to a lot of the people he meets, with their ignorance and prejudice, hypocrisy and primitive rage. Brüno may be a bumbler, but he holds all the cards...
...hard to read too much into the result when almost three out of five voters failed to turn up at the ballot box, and when campaigning was mostly based on distinctly local, and sometimes trivial, issues. "European election campaigns are run on national agendas, and national governments use the E.U. as a scapegoat," says European Commission Vice President Margot Wallström. "If all the failures are the fault of Brussels and all the successes are because of national government, then it becomes very difficult to mobilize voters for these elections...