So, as always, Betty's pettiness is to blame for all things. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Mad Men' finale: Who the heck is Megan?] Reference
Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Mr. Romney, fired back today in a statement: This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee. From Wordnik.com. [Huckabee’s Choice Words for Romney - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [The World Breathes a Sigh of Relief as America's Light Goes Back On] Reference
Your pettiness will be the wreath you lay at the foot of your childrens graves. From Wordnik.com. [Perino on McClellan] Reference
Your pettiness is showing, Repubs. From Wordnik.com. [Obama calls job numbers 'very encouraging'] Reference
Can we please move on from this kind of pettiness?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Scandal!] Reference
But I'm not looking forward to 4 years of this kind of pettiness either. From Wordnik.com. [MSNBC's Shuster Suspended After Hillary Camp Criticizes Chelsea "Pimp" Remark] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Seitzman: Barack Obama and the Return of Grace] Reference
MP Brig Kobus Bosman said South Africa could ill-afford this kind of pettiness when education was of primary importance to the country. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
If you people are such good Christians, why don't you stop this kind of pettiness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines] Reference
I'll accept criticism that is well-intended, but I find this kind of pettiness tiresome. From Wordnik.com. [Blog updates] Reference
But really - what use is this kind of pettiness when the world's financial markets are in turmoil?. From Wordnik.com. [Startups | Home] Reference
Holistic medicine transcends every kind of pettiness including petty identity and concepts born therein. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The kind of pettiness shown in these comments would sounds like my 10 year old talking with her friends. From Wordnik.com. [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference
JOHOR BARU: Do away with the "pettiness" when it comes to approving development projects from investors. From Wordnik.com. [nst online] Reference
I've been involved in Old Firm games that have never had this kind of pettiness and I'm quite surprised, to be honest. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Len McCluskey, assistant general secretary of Unite, said the warning on staff travel perks was an act of "pettiness". From Wordnik.com. [Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Let us put aside partisanship and pettiness and pride. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Complaints about the pettiness of politics are perennial. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor’s Desk: Obama's Nobel Headache] Reference
He had fled from discomfort, magnifying pettiness into tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
Had his pettiness been merely external, that would not have mattered. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference
You're supposed to forget about the consuming pettiness of daily life. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams ofReality, 11] Reference
I didn't say I'd like to cure him of the pettiness that comes with poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Seasonal Discord] Reference
Humanity without any social prejudices, personal feelings, or pettiness. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
It is not the pettiness, but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
History is littered with big moments that turned on the pettiness of small men. From Wordnik.com. [Bazooka Joe] Reference
For all of Nancy's grasping and pettiness, Kelley provides ample reason to sympathize. From Wordnik.com. ['The Hairdo With Anxiety'] Reference
Dazed but elated, he can no longer relate to the pettiness and mendacity of everyday life. From Wordnik.com. [Altered States And Demoman] Reference
For all the complaints and the pettiness and the drama, I'm really going to miss all of them. From Wordnik.com. [Agitated Birds] Reference
A hopeless pettiness, an irresistible effect the ludicrous, lies at the bottom of all things. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It seemed a revelation of some incredible pettiness of character hitherto unsuspected in him. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
Yet there was a pettiness in all his remonstrances, wholly inconsistent with greatness of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
We were good friends, plain and simple — and neither pettiness nor others 'opinions came between us. From Wordnik.com. [‘God Bless My Friend’] Reference
They -- especially black Washingtonians -- were upset with what they saw as Fenty's arrogance, disrespect and pettiness. From Wordnik.com. [DeMorning DeBonis: Sept. 20, 2010] Reference
'I'm bemused to see so many senators leaving Washington because they're depressed by the pettiness of politics,' he says. From Wordnik.com. [A Lovely Donnybrook] Reference
Why cannot this book be set apart exclusively for those lofty spirits who, like you, are preserved from worldly pettiness by solitude?. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
The next morning, the staff is being fired, and what comes out is all of that pettiness, all of that nastiness, all of that infighting. From Wordnik.com. [Further Under the Radar: More Books Not to Miss] Reference
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