How To Use Pettiness In A Sentence
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Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Mr. Romney, fired back today in a statement: This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee.
Huckabee’s Choice Words for Romney - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Learning how to rise above the pettiness, disagreements, and judgements establishes in you a love for all humanity.
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Don't you think in a lot of these cases it is just as much a case of hates, jealousness and pettiness on the part of directors, sponsors and producers and it is being blamed on low ratings?
Post-gazette.com - News
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We all experience times of feeling mightily right and dismissing dissent as small-minded pettiness.
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Whitman hoped that the tedium and pettiness of his senior years would not infect his poetry.
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Consider, too, how a holiday of action would disenthral the writer from the pettiness of cliques and coteries, with their pedantic atmosphere and false perspectives.
Without Prejudice
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For pettiness, for triviality; for all the little things that had vexed him.
EVERVILLE
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disgusted with their small-minded pettiness
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I sometimes think it must be some sinister conspiracy designed just to freak men out with the sheer, dazzling pettiness of it.
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So it is either a kind of pettiness one would expect more from a John McCain than an actual adult, or it is John Bolton-esque contempt for diplomacy with those “godless commies,” or, probably, a combination of the two?
And I Blame You | ATTACKERMAN
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And those issues are far too important to all of us to be obfuscated by the kind of pettiness we hope to never see in our leaders.
Michael Seitzman: Barack Obama and the Return of Grace
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Vanity, pride, pettiness and a desire to impose one's will on others are among the effects of original sin which Augustine discusses at some length and he says explicitly that Adam and Eve held God's original command in contempt because they were "puffed up with pride" ( "elatus superbia").
Sex and Sin
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I wouldn't say that I was born to do this job, but there is a certain aspect of my personality that suits the pettiness & grammatical obsessions of subbing.
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It was described as petty by some, however I would rather watch a person express genuine pettiness than contrived magnanimousness.
LUKE IS BACK
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And to mirror the level of flat expectations, the show is shot docu-style - clearly a nod to The Office - so all the banality and pettiness gain a kind of mock-heroic stature.
Adam Hanft: Move Over Obama: Can Amy Poehler Make Us Fall In Love With Government Again?
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Your pettiness will be the wreath you lay at the foot of your childrens graves.
Perino on McClellan
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They create a portrait of a rural community filled with pettiness and cruelty.
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Can we please move on from this kind of pettiness?
Matthew Yglesias » Scandal!
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Never had she met such spite and pettiness.
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But his vanity, pettiness and egocentrism exasperated even his closest friends.
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But his vanity, pettiness and egocentrism exasperated even his closest friends.
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Twain's Puritan pessimism casts great doubt on humanity's ability to transcend the pettiness of human existence.
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When I look for my profoundest opposite, the incalculable pettiness of my instincts, I always find my mother and my sister.
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Life on board ship, with the pettiness of its human hierarchy in miniature, makes him all the more certain that the sea is beyond all that.
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So, to all readers, as well as those I've written about - let me apologize for the displays of pride, pettiness, slander, belligerency, cruelty, and offensiveness - be they intentional or not.
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Youth is no excuse for pettiness.
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His sensibility transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
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But I'm not looking forward to 4 years of this kind of pettiness either.
MSNBC's Shuster Suspended After Hillary Camp Criticizes Chelsea "Pimp" Remark
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Old grudges have been dredged up to justify this descent into pettiness.
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At the same time, dogs typically lack the worst human traits, including avarice, apathy, pettiness, and hatred.
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It was playground pettiness, grotesquely selfish folly that was not only self-destructive but bound to do serious damage to the interests of his team.
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But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
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Republicans – your pettiness and attack machinery cannot work among the electorates who are intelligent and appreciate the disadvantage of divisive politics where cohesion is needed.
DeMint: Senate could've voted on TSA chief 'months ago'
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I love my children in ways that can never be put into words, but there is no hiding the fact that they are imperfect creatures, capable of the same pettiness, resentment, and mean-spiritedness that sets us adults to warring.
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Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness.
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Like many modern Irish writers, Beckett resented the pettiness, prejudice and prudery of his country of birth.
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For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Everything about her was grand, even her pettiness.
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Wipe out pettiness, irritations, illusions, trivialities.
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And when I came to the word pettiness, and his request that we stop it, well, isn't that the bottom line to any kindof grassroots movement?
The World Breathes a Sigh of Relief as America's Light Goes Back On
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In the public sphere, it became a criticism, denoting an excessive egoism and pettiness that precluded a consideration of the greater good.
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I don't think that this kind of pettiness is a very good match with Obama's notion of hope, change and progress...if anything, it seems like backpedalling...
Frankenstory
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The play still shocks with the pettiness of the offences that have brought the convicts to the flogger or the hangman.
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There's plenty of meanness, pettiness, selfishness, and loathsomeness out there; let's focus some attention on the greatness.
Arianna Huffington: Introducing HuffPost's Greatest Person of the Day: Lessons in Creativity, Generosity and Passion
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Picturesque ruins become eloquent backdrops for biblical dramas, daydreams of shepherds and bacchantes, or meditations on the pettiness of modern life.
Museums: The Romance of Ruins
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His was by no means the only example of academicians' pettiness.
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He had 'teached' for twenty years, he said, but in spite of this there was about him something indescribably rural, something of the sod -- not the dignity, the sturdiness of it, but rather of the pettiness, the sordidness of it.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction
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The council is inefficient and bogged down in its own process of faction fighting and pettiness.
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Pettiness is really a Republican trademark, together with unsatiable greed.
Poll: Obama approval rating dips under 60 percent
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What we're watching is the long-running victory of ballet itself over that pettiness and disarray known as being human.
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Every moment I spent within the city limits caused me to hate the pettiness of the townsfolk even more.
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The film captured the pettiness, bitchiness, and downright surrealism of working in an office.
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He becomes Ron: the shallow-but-photogenic anchorman whose back-stage pettiness contradicts his on-screen friendliness.
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Finally, someone out there saw beyond the pettiness.
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His pettiness and even cruelty come to the fore, untempered by the overwhelming charm and essential generosity of spirit.
The Times Literary Supplement
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With new clarity, he sees the pettiness and futility of his life.
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So, as always, Betty's pettiness is to blame for all things.
The 'Mad Men' finale: Who the heck is Megan?
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No, saris are not symbols of delicacy, of fragile femininity; of posh don't-get-your-hands dirty pettiness!
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Those who by dint of mental effort can understand a kind of pettiness which, for that matter, can be found on any and every social level, will realize the awe with which the bourgeoisie of Angouleme regarded the Hotel de Bargeton.
Two Poets
