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But reviewers fault Lefkowitz for "sweeping platitudes and clichés that trivialize" (Sally Jenkins, the Washington Post ) when he links the rape to Glen Ridge's obsession with sports.
He was--and, weirdly enough, still is--writing principally as a Nixon apologist aiming to trivialize Watergate itself.
And while I don't think I've received a single response to today's question that seeks to trivialize Louima's suffering, I still feel uneasy, and so I've omitted those replies.
When we do not apply the term charismatic to figures like Khomeini, we trivialize them and we trivialize their followers.
In my own experience, including with courts, I am stunned by how willing people are to trivialize the concept of free speech in order to exploit it for some form of political advantage.