trivialize

How To Use trivialize In A Sentence

• Local forms are endlessly trivialized, bastardized and wedded to the worst aspects of Western speculative ‘architecture’.
• Let us not trivialise this by saying that it is because of parapsychology or telepathy.
• Hillary Clinton and John Edwards caught making comments about getting rid of other candidates in debate the ones who quote, "trivialize" debates. CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2007
• For some reason - whether through snobbery, ignorance, or the peculiarly British disease of self-deprecation - this valuable national treasure has been systematically trivialised and ridiculed over the years, to such an extent that today it remains almost unknown.
• It is a sadly inverted and trivialized world in which all that is unimportant becomes important and all that is important becomes unimportant.
• We should not trivialise it just because I am impersonating someone.
• He still has a Quaker-like faith that if only people could hear the truth, untainted by spin, untrivialised by the media, they would begin to see the light.
• Not to trivialize his work, but one of the reasons I believe his work is so popular is the aphoristic style of his writing.
• It's people like Prather who trivialize the world, turning a buck on whatever rare loveliness they can defile in the name of commerce. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
• (Although perhaps I shouldn't trivialize it quite so much by calling it "blather"; it's precisely this NYT-style blather that helped get us in the current "complicated" mess in Iraq.) Narrative Strategies