| Postmodern thought tends to trivialize this desire, if not ignore it altogether. |
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| I don't mean to trivialize sports and the important role they play in our society. |
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| They truly suffered, especially in 1915, and I am in no way willing to minimize or trivialize that tragedy. |
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| One need not trivialize the fears of religious parents to recognize that this is at bottom a complaint against democracy itself. |
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| As a result, the film seems to trivialize important events in Dutch history. |
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| Not to trivialize his work, but one of the reasons I believe his work is so popular is the aphoristic style of his writing. |
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| That all this turmoil culminates in a dance-off rather than bloodshed does not trivialize the seriousness or complexity of the issues at hand. |
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| A characteristic of recent expansionist arguments in the field of copyright has been to minimize or trivialize the public domain. |
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| Some of the bad ways to discuss problems are to awfulize, trivialize, work it up, or dump. |
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| I say that we should not forget about it and trivialize such repressive measures foisted on the unemployed. |
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| This is a very important testimony in a culture that increasingly tends to trivialize human love and close itself to life. |
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| Of course, any money is money, and I'm not trying to trivialize income in rural communities in Newfoundland. |
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| Certainly I think that when we look at the economy and the global situation on the planet today we tend to trivialize the primary industries. |
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| This also means that they may not deny, trivialize or otherwise play down the harm caused by such violence by referring to these notions. |
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| Left unchecked, it has the potential to diminish and trivialize the need to define and address harm that results from government-run gambling. |
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| Earlier I heard the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage trivialize the April 27 meeting. |
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| By blowing small matters out of proportion and encouraging vain politicians to perform and preen, they help to trivialize the law-making process. |
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| We tend to trivialize the contribution the forestry sector has made to this country and that it will make forever. |
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| Because, with his multiculturalism policy, he has tried to trivialize francophones. |
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| The good news for those who think such movies at once glorify and trivialize gun violence is that R.I.P.D. bombed. |
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| One-sided sketches of globalization that celebrate its prosperity unforgivably trivialize the poverty and hardship of the vast majority of the world's people. |
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| To trivialize its message is to comment on our own insignificance. |
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| Again I do not mean to trivialize the issue in any way by saying that this is not a wildfire epidemic which is sweeping the country. |
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| Mr. Speaker, despite all that was uncovered in recent weeks, the Prime Minister is continuing to trivialize the Couillard affair. |
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| Let us go back now to the issue of the Crowns' responsibility in this matter, because there have been attempts to minimize or trivialize it. |
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| This motion is extremely important, therefore, and I would not want to see anyone try to trivialize it. |
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| I will not trivialize this matter by questioning the hon. member's reference to vacation in his question. |
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| I have no desire to trivialize or indulge in partisan politics with a subject that cuts across party lines. |
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| It shows that from time to time the opposition is looking for trivial examples to do exactly that, trivialize the debate. |
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| Our intention with our new video was never to offend, hurt or trivialize Native American people, their culture or their history. |
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| So to trivialize it, in quotation marks, really does a disservice to our show. |
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| This changed attitude is also evident in the words used to describe and therefore trivialize the offense. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary's response confirms that the organization Lawyers Without Borders is right to be worried about this government's strong tendency to minimize, if not trivialize, illegality. |
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| The Bloc Québécois believes that young children should not be confronted with violence at a very early age, because this would tend to trivialize it, with the predictable consequences. |
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| 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. |
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| One of these is the all-out effort to commodify and market that threatens to trinketize and trivialize the World War II experience. |
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| Adopting such a liberal interpretation of the right to privacy would, he believes, effectively trivialize the protection conferred by this right and distort its essence. |
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| However, the standard is not so broad as to trivialize a serious offence. |
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| Ms. Clarke does enlist a few talking heads, but her heart obviously isn't in it: the interviews are framed within cartoon television sets, as if to trivialize the whole exegetic process. |
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| To say it moved me deeply would be to trivialize its importance. |
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| Yet to characterize him solely in this manner would be to trivialize what appears to have been a deep and a genuine interest in Aboriginal peoples. |
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| But we should not forget or trivialize the mighty powers of architecture. |
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| To summarize this plot is to trivialize issues that are not at all trivialized in this elegantly related tale of a close-knit family violently torn apart by bizarre tragedy. |
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| Whether you are watching local stations or NBC or ABC or CNN or Fox, whatever, you get a very simplified version of events, which seems to trivialize the underlying story. |
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