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Too often their work is trivialized by the news media.

In saying this I do not mean to trivialize art.

He also saw the idea trivialized even as it took hold.

Let's not trivialize this and put it in anything to do with the game.

They should never be trivialized, no matter what the context.

"My worry is that the case against the President will trivialize the whole issue for some people."

The 20 lives lost in this tragedy cannot be trivialized.

We should be open to human suffering, not trivializing it.

Their report just trivializes what is an important problem for everybody."

"The real terror is taking a serious issue and trivializing it."

To choose just seven people, they said, trivializes the president's power to be a force for justice.

"We should not trivialize the issue of race for political gain," he said.

Participants also saw the news media as "trivializing" political debate.

The worst thing they can do is trivialize the abortion issue by making it political.

To say that these cuts cause pain trivializes what's going on.

No one else can live these moments with you and others want to trivialize them, not knowing just how important they are.

In doing so, you are the one guilty of trivializing female voters.

His fans say the news media have trivialized him, but others disagree.

And to say that this trivializes it, I answer again, nonsense.

I am not trying to trivialize that crime; it's a terrible thing.

For a start, by trivializing a discussion of women's self-esteem.

Too, and at least as important, this question trivializes the seriousness of the crime.

And even some Christian leaders criticized the park for trivializing religion.

Forget the moral debates about how art can trivialize history.

Why, the Prince wondered, did the press trivialize his ideas on social problems?

It does not do any good to try to run away from reality or to trivialise these issues.

Trying to play down or trivialise the matter won't do.

Some people, including certain delegates in this House, are trying to trivialise the issue.

These are ridiculous terms which trivialise an important issue.

The European Union has not attempted to trivialise the conflict.

The pressure for daily or weekly production may often trivialise their comments but it does keep them in touch with what is going on.

You've managed to trivialise the central tragedy of my entire life.'

In the foregoing, my aim was certainly not to trivialise the suffering of the Palestinian people.

This also means that we should not trivialise this debate or use it for political gain.

I'm not so sure about internet access being a human right as I feel such a move might trivialise the concept of human rights.

"Especially a progressive paper, you don't trivialise a woman politician based on her appearance," she said.

In this general context, it is not right to trivialise drug addiction as an insignificant activity of no consequence.

You might think that parliamentary sketch writers trivialise politics.

Or do you think it's an effective way to be in touch with the electorate, or does it trivialise the political process?

She worked to legitimise women's sport in a time when there was societal trend to trivialise it.

This, to my mind, is simply to trivialise a question which is much more subtle and pregnant with surprises.

A politician might argue that sketch writers trivialise politics by reducing it to personalities.

None of this is to trivialise or discount the horrific effects of domestic violence.

Michael White's remorseless drive to trivialise everything steamrollers on.

And no, it's not a group setting out deliberately to trivialise the Jewish experience of the Holocaust.

Such comparisons trivialise this monstrous, state-sanctioned violation of human rights, which was unique in history.

Don't trivialise quiet times, sleep and other seemingly unproductive moments - they're essential for your health.

They said it could trivialise heroin abuse.

Not that the work of Ralley seeks to trivialise her subject-matter.

But they trivialise a complex society.