Sentence examples for petty anxieties from inspiring English sources
He maintains that his avatars would not just end world hunger — because a machine needs maintenance but not food — but that they would also usher in a more peaceful and spiritual age, when people could stop worrying about the petty anxieties of day-to-day living.
In sum, they betray a mix of petty anxiety, absurdity, and genuine hazard.
Ask the people here what brought them to live, as the cliché would have it, "in the shadow" of a nuclear plant, and most of the replies touch on the same themes: not just the low cost, but a very familiar view of most modern lives being beset with danger, annoyance and worry – noisy neighbours, traffic, petty violence, anxiety about what might happen to children.
Losey, a master of downbeat Americana, burrows deep into the hidden intimacies of small-town life to capture a wide range of anxieties — the petty indignities and casual brutalities of childhood, the gnawing frustrations and shameless lies that await in adulthood — and presents the child's vulnerability as the existential condition of modern life.
Drawing on the general aggression model and theories of victimization and temperamental goodness-of-fit, we investigated trait anger and trait anxiety as antecedents of petty tyranny: employing a multilevel design with data from 84 sea captains and 177 crew members.
Subordinate trait anxiety was associated with subordinate-reported petty tyranny.
In the latest chapter in the musicians' petty, transcendent beef, Drake responded not with the venom of a battle rapper but with the anxiety of a pop politician.
