Sentence examples for petty affairs from inspiring English sources

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.

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…."The world is a system, not a collection of individuals," I heard him say in one of his speeches (not an applause line, you can be sure).

For LGBT folks, a local protest like mine and global protests like those against Barilla and Russian vodka brands are not petty affairs.

Operate under the noses of authority figures, there is no need to involve them in the petty affairs and wars of their charges.

It was a petty affair, but she hadn't written about it in her memoirs, never mentioned it, and when I asked her about it she had a coy way of undermining the allegations".

In fact, in view of the world-shaking nature of these impending events, Arians are extremely selfish to bother astrologists for help with their petty personal 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.

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.

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".

I've immersed myself in far too many accounts of the nervous breakdowns, love affairs and petty rivalries of poets and novelists.

The whole package of life contained here--the effluvium, the superstitions, the magic, the illness, the affairs and petty disagreements--all of it, in Davies's hands, deserves an attentive and wondering audience.