petty造句

I'm not that petty.

She is very petty at times.

Computer is not a petty human.

The party split into petty factions.

A petty distinction or an irrelevant objection.

Mr Baruch dismisses that as petty and spiteful.

"Bicker:To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble."

This was a only petty, front-line skirmish.

In a world preoccupied with consumerism and petty self-interest, that gives life dignity.

The paymasters of these petty crooks are the big crime syndicates.

BOBO refers to the modern romantic petty bourgeoisie, but also the upper class intellectuals in society.

Ehrlichman's hiring of Young was not uninfluenced by the petty jealousies of the White House staff.

The authors speculate that the new middle class is not an aspiring bourgeoisie of petty businessmen.

They take the petty-bourgeois stand and produce works that are the self-expression of the petty bourgeoisie, as can be seen in quite a number of literary and artistic products.

Therefore, according to Liu, such "petty" school rules are still necessary even though students may resent them.

It proclaimed the German nation to be the model nation, and the German petty Philistine to be the typical man.

Exhibits a sort of lofty detachment to the more or less petty things that weigh most of us down.

Today, writers who cling to an individualist, petty-bourgeois stand cannot truly serve the masses of revolutionary workers, peasants and soldiers. Their interest is mainly focused on the small number of petty-bourgeois intellectuals.

When you use these imaginary rules on yourself, you clog your mind with petty restrictions and childish orders.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, — that petty fears and petty pleasure are but the shadow of reality.

For all their petty foolishness, the Republicans are bringing issues like tax reform and entitlements into the national debate.

Mr. Loriquet characterized defiant trespass as a “petty disorderly persons offense” that carried a maximum sentence of 30 days in jail.

This united front is so broad that it includes the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie.

There was one man impervious to obstacles, impatient with petty calculation, undisturbed by latent tensions: the father of the European Community, Jean Monnet.

At the present stage in China, they are the working class, the peasantry, the urban petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie.

So instead of responding to a saber-tooth tiger lurking behind a tree, the body reacts to petty annoyances like getting caught in traffic, being reprimanded by a supervisor, or worrying about bills.

It was more like a holiday spree as the result of discovering the schoolmaster Life with his cane to be a myth, and thereby being able to shake myself free from the petty rules of his school.

More recently, the most popular apps are those that enrich the users life in rather more sophisticated ways – or at least take the edge off some of life's (admittedly petty) problems.

And there are the proletariat, the peasantry, and the different sections of the petty bourgeoisie other than the peasantry, all of which are still the subject classes in vast areas of China.

Then I remembered how often, too, had been indifferent to the grandeur of each day, too preoccupied with petty and sometimes even mean concerns to respond to the splendor of it all.

taste this, and in an hour you will be a king, not a king of a petty kingdom hidden in some corner of Europe like France, Spain, or England, but king of the world, king of the universe, king of creation;

More valuable, he can always keep a clear and calm mind in this benefit-pursuing game world, a mind that is independent from advantage and matters, different from the scholar-bureaucrat’ s leisurely and carefree mood or the content and conservation the petty farmer has.