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pettiness
1. She never gave him digs about his children as other Glen women did; she never bored him with local gossip; she had no malice and no pettiness
2. scope of pettiness, its astonishing reach, is unbounded inside the
3. The greed and pettiness of those priests and monks had been grating on Nancy for months, apart from bringing popular disrepute to their church for decades now
4. Read Mighty Be Our Powers for the inspiration as well as for the warnings about the pettiness that gets in the way of progress, sometimes caused by addictions
5. Many a time have I wondered at the unworthy ways of Fate, at the pettiness of the pleasure it takes in frustrating plans that are small and innocent, at its entire want of dignity, at its singular spitefulness, at the resemblance of its manners to those of an evilly-disposed kitchen-maid; but never have I wondered more than I did that night at Thiessow
6. The pettiness of the reason that finally
7. He was harshly critical of his own countrymen and I think it was because he truly loved Greece and its ancient civilization and could not bear the pettiness the average Greek, or should I say, the majority of Greeks, had fallen into
8. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness
9. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness
10. Oh, that was too hard a penance, she her penance, there would be the dreadful sight of Melanie’s face changing from fond thought in anguish, to have to live out her life remembering Melanie’s face, knowing that Melanie knew all the pettiness, the meanness, the two-faced disloyalty and the
11. place among the colossi whose huge legs our living pettiness is observed to walk under, glories in his copious remarks and digressions as the least imitable part of his work, and especially in those initial chapters to the successive books of his history, where he seems to bring his armchair to the proscenium and chat with us in all the lusty ease of his fine English
12. Lavrushka was one of those coarse, bare-faced lackeys who have seen all sorts of things, consider it necessary to do everything in a mean and cunning way, are ready to render any sort of service to their master, and are keen at guessing their master’s baser impulses, especially those prompted by vanity and pettiness
13. But even then, at moments of weakness as he had accounted them, his mind had penetrated to those distances and he had there seen the same pettiness, worldliness, and senselessness
14. He scrutinized his own heart in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept
15. Moreover, there was in all these words of Thenardier, in his accent, in his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth
16. obeyed as an intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Caesar, Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents of consciences; accepted by the surface, but little in accord with France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too much and not enough; his own first minister; excellent at creating out of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; mingling a genuine creative faculty of civilization, of order and organization, an indescribable spirit of proceedings and chicanery, the founder and lawyer of a dynasty; having something of Charlemagne and something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe
17. A lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed immensity
18. What is to be done in such a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her freaks of pettiness
19. I sensed something about his love for her, that it was immense and beyond pettiness, and that he claimed no dominion over her, that he adored her
20. 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
21. I might not indeed have told all this foolish episode, and it would have been better in fact for it to have perished in obscurity ; besides, it's revoltuig in its pettiness and gratuitousness, though it had rather serious consequences
22. Even at sixteen I wondered at them morosely; even then I was struck by the pettiness of their thoughts, the stupidity of their pursuits, their games, their conversations
23. His discontent, due to the pettiness and vanity of his immediate superiors, grew until an opportunity offered to enter the Senate
24. Lavrúshka was one of those coarse, bare-faced lackeys who have seen all sorts of things, consider it necessary to do everything in a mean and cunning way, are ready to render any sort of service to their master, and are keen at guessing their master’s baser impulses, especially those prompted by vanity and pettiness
25. Pettiness, intrigue, jealousy, hatred, malevolence, are ascribed to the Abbé Morisson, who is as deep-dyed a villain as one could wish to find in the Third Avenue Theater or the Grand Opera House
