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"Boredom presents itself as a trivial emotion that can trivialize the world," Spacks writes.
Where "Wild Grass" flirts with the trivial and gets lost in minutiae that both validate and trivialize his thesis, "Inception" sinks into bombast that does the same thing.
Fitzgerald invited criticism by making his theme, again and again, his weakness, his materialism, his love of money and nice clothes and fame; he appeared to trivialize himself by making his values open to the charge of being trivial.
At the same time, however, this concern with maintaining knowledge of the past must not ossify into a "short course" of propositions that trivialize that past or that prevent people from evolving in ways of their own choosing.
Contemporary rationalists therefore hold that the a priori has emerged victorious from the empiricists' efforts to discredit such knowledge and the positivists' attempts to trivialize it.
Blasting the false claims on Twitter, the rapper posted: "Despite recent media reports, I've never said anything to dishonor or trivialize the life or transition of one of the most inspiring leaders.[sic]" He added: "At a young age my mother taught me the importance of his work.
An extract from the policy argues that 'lad culture' promoters, such as lads mag websites and Facebook groups, "trivialize rape and by doing so contribute to a culturally permissible attitude to rape which is disgusting and cannot be allowed by our union".
Blasting the reports on Twitter, the rapper posted: "Despite recent media reports, I've never said anything to dishonor or trivialize the life or transition of one of the most inspiring leaders.[sic]" He added: "At a young age my mother taught me the importance of his work.
The conventional images of "armed camps," "a powder keg," or "saber rattling" almost trivialize a civilization that combined within itself immense pride in its newly expanding power and almost apocalyptic insecurity about the future.
Philosophical analysts who hold that all meaning is capable of rendition in language therefore pronounce music unless it can be saved by the referentialists without meaning, confronting thoughtful listeners, thereby, with a proposition that seems clearly to contradict (and trivialize ) their own experiences.
To dismiss Saddam Hussein as a "bad guy," as some of the war's opponents acquired a habit of doing, was to trivialize the sadistic evil of his regime.
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Trivialize primarily functions as a verb. It describes the act of making something seem less significant, important, or complex than it actually is. This verb is often used in contexts where the speaker or writer wants to emphasize the inappropriate or unfair reduction of something's true value, as seen in examples provided by Ludwig.
Expression frequency: Very common
