Word: trivialized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is exactly what the man in the elevator did. My friends thought the situation was too trivial to make an issue out of, but I have to disagree. Daily activities, encounters with strangers may not be life-changing events, but they form the bulk of a person's life. The personal is political, especially because the personal is all that most people have to work with...
Long hours spent at sporting events keeping statistics, most weekends devoted to job responsibilities, weary bus rides to places such as Hamilton, N.Y., and Philadelphia, publishing weekly press releases, keeping track of all team's statistics, answering pesky journalists' questions about the most trivial of facts and providing materials for the press at Harvard athletic events are just routine parts...
...come-on is trivial over the long pull; it is designed to cloud your judgment. The true rate on this deal is the "nationally recognized interest index plus 1.5%" that Amex talks about. But a footnote reveals this to be an index of short-term, tax-free bonds, the lowest-yielding animals...
...same roommate remembers matching wits with Granieri at Trivial Pursuit during exam period. Granieri answered all the questions correctly. "The first game, I never got a turn," says Miller...
...such hot topics as "Geraldo's Compromising Tattoo." The magazine has added a horoscope page and a rundown of the week's soap-opera plots -- two low-rent staples of daily newspapers. Its late-breaking news pages, once a source of knowing industry tidbits, have become splashier and more trivial ("Rating the Oscar Parties: The Best and the Worst"). Cover stories, meanwhile, have kept both eyes on the newsstand: a January story about rock music on TV, for example, had no timely reason for being except to get Elvis Presley's face on the cover...