Sentence examples for petty concern from inspiring English sources

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

Are wealthy Americans above the petty concern of preserving natural resources?

Maybe unpopularity is a petty concern to adults, but to teenagers, it can be brutal and bruising.

After Argentina plunged into economic chaos in late 2001, discrimination based on sexual orientation seemed to many like a petty concern.

When viewers are facing the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, in which hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were slaughtered in 1994, it's easy to think that ice cream is a comparatively petty concern.

I pretty much eat whatever I want at the moment, to the great detriment of my egregious figure, but without the petty concern of not wanting to be seen roaming the streets as an amorphous blob, my eating would go into overdrive.

Luckily, not everybody is bound by these petty concerns.

Eventually, one's day goes on and one's petty concerns take over again.

Maybe the refined intellectual, engaged with ideas, manages to think herself above petty concerns like nationalism?

They can be torn away from petty concerns, and they can be roused.

"The more serious the enterprise, the less that petty concerns of turf come into play," he said.