Sentence examples for petty compared from inspiring English sources

Brady, said Boyd, argued that "in some ways his behaviour was petty compared with politicians and soldiers in relation to wars".

But that donation looks petty compared to the tremendous thing the group could have done simply by cancelling the marathon earlier in the week and diverting the supplies for the race to those in need.

Without criticizing his predecessors or overtly changing Catholic doctrine, Francis has made the theological hair-splitting of recent Popes seem irrelevant and petty compared to the radical imperative to love others and do good.

It may be that the playwright Trista Baldwin intends to show that the lives of the play's four shallow, sex-obsessed young people are even more petty compared with this natural marvel.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Cameron Boyd, who along with a judge and another expert, will decide whether Brady is fit to serve out his sentence in prison, said Brady's view on his crimes was that "his behaviour was petty compared to politicians and soldiers in relation to wars".

The Paradox of Success: Higher Rents and Gentrification The current concern over liquor licenses and backyard cafes may seem mild, even petty, compared with the worries of the past, although newly outraged residents have taken to calling the neighborhood an "alcoholic theme park" and "inebriation central".

The credit crunch is petty when compared to the nature crunch.

Even that is a petty concern compared with the worry that troubles their sleep.

Airplane noise may seem like a petty nuisance compared with drug gangs or a toxic waste dump.

Glenn Petry, a publicist who works with the Emerson, said, "Punk rock was like really just petty angst compared to what this guy went through".

It is only at Satan's Ball that we observe the full range of Woland's power, and see that the havoc wreaked in Moscow is petty crime compared to the precise tortures he prescribes the occupants of Hell.