(1) I don't mean to trivialize sports and the important role they play in our society.(2) As a result, the film seems to trivialize important events in Dutch history.(3) A characteristic of recent expansionist arguments in the field of copyright has been to minimize or trivialize the public domain.(4) These governments took a significant political risk to make these statements - don't trivialize it.(5) They truly suffered, especially in 1915, and I am in no way willing to minimize or trivialize that tragedy.(6) Postmodern thought tends to trivialize this desire, if not ignore it altogether.(7) The trivialization of sexual assault, though, is not a laughing matter.(8) In the last two decades, a blast of outrage has been directed at the legal system for ignoring or trivializing complaints of domestic violence.(9) In fact, many Christians argue that secular display of the Ten Commandments places them in an improper context and trivializes the important role those teachings play in our lives.(10) Doctors and authorities have attempted to dismiss and trivialise those sorts of health effects, and have said they have nothing to do with the spray, so they are not included in the health statistics.(11) Such a reading would of course increase the plausibility of the claim that a conscious state's representational properties exhaust its mental properties but at the cost of significantly weakening or even trivializing the thesis.(12) This trivializes the death of thousands of innocent victims.(13) The risk is in misleading the audience, trivializing the horror, and reducing the madness into something mundane.(14) I am happy to debate the policy; I am not happy to see such an important debate trivialised by saying that the law defines women as fathers.(15) Both the book and the album punch home how easily we shrug off tragedy when it doesn't happen in our backyard, or worse yet, how we make it a form of entertainment, a fit subject for humour or trivialisation .(16) Eventually, the trivialization of the name will continue until the word has only a vague meaning, perhaps implying a ‘bad’ person.
