banalizing

You might say the incidents leading up to it could hardly be topped, so why banalizing it or making it a simple shocker.

Kraken by China Mieville Adam Whitehead 2010

But it seems as if the poppification of the unicorn has gone beyond this, banalizing the image so that it is almost impossible to use it in a semi-serious context, even in fantasy where, one would think, an occasional unicorn might find an unspoiled field to roam in.

Unicorns: Have they been mylittleponied into blunt four-color rainbows? Lou Anders 2008

Far from banalizing the issue, Calculating God seeks to think seriously of the questions involved, focusing of scientific proof.

Reflective Surface - Archives: 2005 January 2005

Far from banalizing the issue, Calculating God seeks to think seriously of the questions involved, focusing of scientific proof.

Reflective Surface - Calculating God 2005

Esthetes decry the banalizing of liturgy in which all worshippers are fully able to participate.

The changing language of God Argent 2006

We do get dulled of that to which we are overexposed in a banalizing way.

President At Character Education Conference ITY National Archives 1995

The Brazil that avoids punishing or even pointing its torturers ends up banalizing violence, which spills over the dictatorship and victimizes ordinary citizens in full democracy, especially in the two largest capitals, São Paulo and Rio.

Home Luiz Cláudio Cunha 2010

One of the essential reasons why Germany today appears to be a complete cultural wasteland-and on this practically everyone agrees with me-lies in the unbelievably banalizing and stultifying entertainment industry for people of all ages.

LaRouche's Latest 2009

In the final analysis, the big-lie tactic is aimed at downplaying, banalizing and ultimately scuttling the primordial issue of the right of return for millions of people uprooted from their ancestral homeland at the hands of the Nazi-like movement known as Zionism.

Palestine Blogs aggregator 2008

So, it's all very well to say that I am popularizing or banalizing Buddhism, but basically what I'm doing is responding to my understanding of Buddhism as an evolving, adapting organism, rather than as a fixed body of truths that is passed down, uncorrupted, from one generation to the next. "

James Rotondi: Buddhist Backlash: Stephen Batchelor Braves The Storm 2010