pettiness

How To Use pettiness In A Sentence

• His was by no means the only example of academicians' pettiness.
• 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.
• 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'
• 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.
• Too bad his son inherited his mother's virtues of pettiness and badger-like meanness.
• Like many modern Irish writers, Beckett resented the pettiness, prejudice and prudery of his country of birth.
• 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
• Everything about her was grand, even her pettiness.
• Wipe out pettiness, irritations, illusions, trivialities.
• 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