pettiness

She has lost a lot of friends due to her pettiness.

The great have the vision to see beyond such pettiness.

"This is too big a deal to get involved in that kind of pettiness," he said.

Pettiness or no, this time the food was up to previous standards.

Time and again, Yeltsin shows how his pettiness got the best of him.

Art can indeed rise above the pettiness and politics of any particular age.

We must not forget that this is by no means a case of pettiness.

It highlighted the pettiness of what happened to me recently.

She'd been close to death, and that made a person think about how much time was wasted on pettiness.

All the pettiness of life itself is my complaint, I fear.

I'm just saying you get tired of all the academic pettiness.

She thought more of herself, her true self, than to be concerned with such pettiness.

But there is more to her story than pettiness or perks.

He, too, could have stopped progress with a fit of pettiness.

She was tired enough of his pettiness to consider making him a challenge.

It is this kind of pettiness that led the Brown government to disaster.

I do not like good tools being damaged through pettiness.

There was no room in this structure for pettiness and prejudice.

With the stakes so far diminished, nothing is left but the pettiness.

Even the most mundane exchanges took an air of pettiness.

Life was too big to leave room for pettiness.

She would never again have to bow down to pettiness and incompetence.

The sheer pettiness of it was enough to make her want to scream.

They would work together, though, because this goal far transcended their pettiness.

"What drove us here was the love of this nation, free from pettiness.