Sentence examples similar to * petty minded from inspiring English sources

Mr. Burns told USA Today that he was disappointed that Mr. Olbermann, a baseball expert, "would have such a petty mind".

The closed systems i.e., the passions and prejudices into which petty minds shut themselves—hide the Dao, the "Supreme Master" who resides inside themselves and is superior to all distinctions.

"He was a small, bald man and as such didn't like to be seen doing small, bald things" pretty much takes care of a petty- minded editor.

There are plenty of twists and turns, including Ms. Connor's being suspended from duty for overzealousness by petty, bureaucratically minded department officials.

Conrad relegated "Africa to the role of props for the breakup of one petty European mind," Mr. Achebe argued in his essay "An Image of Africa".

He is also spiteful, petty-minded and a prig.

And they frequently engaged in petty-minded bureaucratic squabbles with rival organizations.

So thanks to Christopher Elliott for pointing out a way for Americans to avoid this petty-minded fee.

Any dealings with the legal system are bound to make the protagonist look petty-minded, venal or underhand.

Puritanical and petty-minded folk blame Jenkins for the alleged moral collapse of British society in the 1960s and since.

His laughter had the counter-authority of human intelligence, triumphing over the petty-minded authority of a regime.