The Russian singer insists that the Braveheart star is attempting to "trivialise" the alleged abuse by filing his own extortion claims against her, reports ❋ Unknown (2010)
Many might think that in doing so I trivialise the struggles undergone by people of colour under that heinous system. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
Where you trivialise the effects of prescriptivism in critique, I consider this highly naive in light of its socio-political uses in linguistics. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
The alternative is to trivialise or distort, thus subordinating substance in the name of attraction. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Where you trivialise the consequences of such prescriptivism on the grounds that reviewers have no “genuine power” to prescribe and that “even the shallowest reader is easily able to read the critique/review critically, i.e., reject it,” I would say this is a level of dismissive complacency I have to strive not to over-react to. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
That really does sound like you want to trivialise marriage. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We are trying to trivialise the Great War, when people fought for our freedoms. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I'm not trying to trivialise that – it's a real issue. ❋ Charles Arthur (2010)
Are they deliberately trying to trivialise this important subject? ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)
Though the main idea there was just to have Finnan use the word to trivialise the unkin that see themselves as “angels”. pg 40: SOOTH-SIMILE. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)
We produce brilliant comedians but consistently undervalue or trivialise comedy. ❋ Kate Kellaway (2010)
It is also to downplay the role of ideology in fomenting violence, and thus not merely to trivialise and downgrade the motivation for anti-Muslim attacks but also to negate by implication the very concept of the Islamic jihad as the cause of terrorism. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I don't mean to trivialise sexual assault, but these gadgets and kits, thrown together for cash like a Ready Steady Cook meal – a bit of lipstick, a pinch of science – may have the means to prevent a bad thing happening, but are more likely to turn partygoers into paranoid pre-victims. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He gets inside people, and he festers there, sparking longings too intense and elusive to satisfy, desires too abstract and ethereal to fulfil, a sense of escape, transcendence, revelation, and ecstasy so deep it can seem to trivialise ordinary life, and thus trivialise whoever has to live that life, which is to say anyone. ❋ Greil Marcus (2010)
