The aggressive triviality of the campaign is having a deadening effect on the electorate. |
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As a lyricist, he still oscillates between occasional felicities and frequent triviality. |
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Another reports that in 55 markets in 35 states, local news was dominated by crime and violence, triviality and celebrity. |
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Hurley's show was a brilliant reflection of Kiwi culture and portrayal of the triviality of politics and the public's attitude towards them. |
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What does a triviality like that matter compared to my indulgence of hatred? |
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Some weeks ago, rooting around in files of old clippings and correspondence, I made a discovery of astonishing obviousness and triviality. |
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They seem to be trivial checks, but it is because of their triviality that they are often ignored. |
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The matter of the United Kingdom being engaged in a war which few of us condone far transcends the triviality of local affairs. |
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Meanwhile, I reflected on the triviality of human affairs and the weakness of the individuals who hold the fate of the world in their hands. |
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This enormous power to subject the American public to serial triviality is far from trivial. |
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Denis believes that this is partly because of a flight from the triviality of the other media. |
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This, he emphasized, was most important, but it seemed to her just another ridiculous triviality. |
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Given the satirical clout of his greatest operettas, the charge of triviality now strikes us as absurd, but it rankled. |
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But my problem with the ideological feminism was that I couldn't stand the triviality of so much of it. |
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In his religiously inspired work too, he was able to maintain his animistic vision and to safeguard this thematic from triviality. |
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If the common run of contemporary art risks triviality in the pursuit of seduction, the new kind incurs hysteria as a toll of earnest intensity. |
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Behind the panache of his ideas often bunkum, yet sometimes catching acutely the media-dominated triviality of modern life the man was hidden. |
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Schuch's acting possessed a quality of commonness untainted by triviality or grossness. |
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Letting F be anything entailing triviality Curry's paradox quickly 'shows' that the world is trivial! |
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Chocolate and cocoa: almost all of us have a special relationship with what could well be our most important and delicious triviality. |
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His multimedia pieces take their inspiration from present-day America, where, according to him, deceit, triviality and aggression reign supreme. |
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Unfortunately, and somewhat ridiculously, this issue is relegated in some developed nations to triviality in the tabloids. |
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Longer, sweeter melodies were no less well served, Mr. Pollini's unsentimental approach warding off triviality. |
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Indeed what's most depressing about Ngai's terms is their smallness, their triviality. |
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The template for this book's monologues is the on-screen navel-gazing of TV contestants, and it requires of its reader a similar concern for triviality. |
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So much of my day is taken up with triviality, frustration, and minutiae! |
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Once a person takes upon himself community leadership, it is best to minimize public participation in activities which have a smack of triviality. |
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We had traded in a decade of triviality for an era of profundity. |
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It's easy to point out examples of the media catering to embarrassingly base interests or cravenly pursuing triviality for the sake of sales, in the name of news. |
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The healthy competition between the member institutions and creative professionals is reduced to a triviality, and the relevant topics and interests move into focus. |
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They have come back to public broadcasting after having run through a Klondike-phase of curiosity, fed up relatively soon with all the triviality and trash they were confronted with on the new commercial channels. |
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Without this we are left to triviality and the mundane. |
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To state that reality can be understood is no triviality. |
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We will very quickly come to understand the triviality of the things of this world and the importance, the beauty, the perpetuity of that which God has promised. |
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Above and beyond that triviality, the author sees China through rose-tinted glasses, asking readers why it would want to disturb the peace in the Pacific when it has so much to lose in trade terms. |
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When they play one side against another, abandon solid reporting for triviality and accept bribes for reporting or not reporting certain information, journalists are letting down the entire profession. |
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All of them combine feelings and images, sensations and reminiscences, triviality and metaphysics, autobiography and recordings of the real, past and present, in a language that has an original texture. |
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So we can only recommend to future Presidencies of the Council that the precondition for success on the really big issues is that they should not deal with every triviality at a sitting of the European Council. |
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The triviality of this occurrence has shaped the new face of expatriation. |
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It seems that in general the more nearly a theory approximates incontrovertibility, the more nearly does it approximate triviality. |
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European artists have reacted to the influences of US mass culture in a highly subtle manner, responding to the triviality of the topic with a mixture of fascination and irony that is often full of allusions and ambiguities. |
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If this is not desired, then a one-year review clause, as proposed here by Parliament, might at any rate be agreed to, in anticipation of reducing the triviality limit. |
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