'Do you seriously expect to start a rebellion with picayune stuff like that?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
Why should he bother about petty, picayune minds which could not understand this?. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Again, if you don't follow this sport, it may all seem pathetic, picayune and unimportant. From Wordnik.com. [weight room!] Reference
A picayune was the price of a small sheet in my time. From Wordnik.com. [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference
It seems kind of picayune in the grand context of the stimulus effort. From Wordnik.com. [The Calculus (and Politics) of Stimulus II] Reference
However, the "picayune" promises are the types of promises made by most people. From Wordnik.com. [Why Do Politicians Break Their Promises? Part 1, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
First of all, Wayne Garcia is part of the same coverage he describe as "picayune" in the rest of the article. From Wordnik.com. [Wayne Garcia says I am a "one-man election wrecking crew" -- I can't say he's wrong] Reference
And frankly, maybe we can come up with something better than the Shroud, which looks kind of picayune in its new company. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Connick also made fun of Davis 'use of music terminology like "picayune" and "strident" and his reference to songs as "copyrights.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
HAUGHEY: No. I think that might be a little too picayune. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Pope John Paul II Makes Unprecedented Apology For Sins of Catholic Church - March 12, 2000] Reference
Ooh, as long as you're answering picayune questions. From Wordnik.com. [If You Receive an Airborne Contaminant in the Mail... Is It Potpourri?] Reference
It did not matter a picayune to any one what became of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
The more picayune the matter, the more eloquent he could be. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Byrd's Passions: Poetry, Power And Home-State Pork] Reference
To these picayune points the breezy gentlemen make no reference. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
That's not being picayune, it is the way the law of the land works. From Wordnik.com. [Democratic National Committee Gives Blessing To Michigan Re-vote] Reference
The possibilities I'd imagined originally had been much too picayune. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Brass Shadows]
They worked themselves into the picayune state of the perpetually aggrieved. From Wordnik.com. [My Dark Places]
Always craved a national audience about your disturbingly picayune pet peeve?. From Wordnik.com. [the Bearcats ate the Retrievers] Reference
But Hugh's ambition was of no such picayune caliber; he wished to move his world. From Wordnik.com. [Destiny Narrowly Avoided] Reference
Now he's staring down a spending explosion that makes those battles look picayune. From Wordnik.com. ['Elections Have Consequences'] Reference
In normal times, questions about such small amounts of financing would seem picayune. From Wordnik.com. [Information, Please...] Reference
But who is there, or will there be, that cares a picayune whether the third cobbler in. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884] Reference
So many things had to go in it -- the darning needle, thimble, picayune, ring, and button. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
And they want to use cockamamie, picayune little items to keep people off the voter rolls. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2008] Reference
'It's not picayune stuff, because it acts directly on their emotions, below the logical level. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
Xref: bloom-picayune. mit.edu news. announce.newusers: 736 news. groups: 38809 news. admin: 17975. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Positive Thinking] Reference
Of course, it was a standard remark of disparagement, meaning that a given person had picayune magic. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
Here are some of my answers, on matters profound and picayune, personal and philosophical: PRIVATE GUY. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Dissecting Howard Dean's Implosion] Reference
The juxtaposition of monumental stakes and picayune rules puts one in mind of the 2000 Florida recount. From Wordnik.com. [WHO CARES ABOUT IOWA?] Reference
Reminds me of how much interest can be got from paying attention to the most picayune details of life. 5. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Michael Lewis] Reference
The creative energy that was in him had at last found an outlet which was congenial though somewhat picayune. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
You are impoverishing this bar by your picayune charges of fees, and the lawyers have reason to complain of you. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
It is bad enough I'll admit, I hadn't any business to make fool love to her when I really didn't care a picayune. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
Get rid of the hodgepodge of picayune tax deductions (such as sales taxes) that cluttered your box of tax receipts. From Wordnik.com. [CAPITAL IDEAS] Reference
Even if we didn't know he was lying, we'd know he was because there are way too many picayune details in the heist. From Wordnik.com. [Holly Cara Price: Weeds, Episode 9 Recap] Reference
The less the soldiers have to pay attention to picayune details of their real-life situation, the more "present" they can be. From Wordnik.com. [Tunnel Vision] Reference
It made much fun -- the bride herself cut the first slice -- hoping it might hold the picayune, and thus symbolize good fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
But his legalisms -- seven times he said that no "" controlling legal authority '' prohibited his making the calls -- seemed picayune. From Wordnik.com. [With Friends Like These...] Reference
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