So up and up and up he goes — and away and away and away — until he reaches a realm of cosmic understanding of the larger forces against which our petty affairs are played out.
For LGBT folks, a local protest like mine and global protests like those against Barilla and Russian vodka brands are not petty affairs.
From there you seem to be even with Half Dome (though you're really 1,600 feet below it), and the spectacle is an invitation to consider eternity and forget petty human affairs.
Argentina's 0-0 dragainstnst West Germany at Villa Park in the group stages was, according to the Birmingham Evening Mail, "everything the World Cup knockers had been hoping for: a negative, petty, defence-locked affair".
There were tears and storms, petty and political affairs (along with a little unconvincing Sapphic panting) and, in time, the Amanda Foreman book on which the film is based.
I've immersed myself in far too many accounts of the nervous breakdowns, love affairs and petty rivalries of poets and novelists.
Here he excels, detailing the panicky mutual preoccupation and the mix of glamour and squalor, exalted passion and petty resentment, that characterize many affairs.
Green has also picked fights with some powerful people, including Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, which launched an investigation into his tax affairs following a petty disagreement over a Kate Moss fashion shoot.
In many cases, they are understaffed affairs, where one official settles petty disputes and draws up rudimentary documents.
As with many love affairs that explode over a petty slight, the tensions that soured this relationship are almost like a Greek drama in what they suggest about human flaws.
