The people of Europe "don't want this petty envy between the various institutions.
Strip away all the distractions, of which there were many, and the petty envy and mistrust, of which there was a surprising amount, and you are unquestionably left with one of the greatest of English post-war careers.
In turn, he complains that the board and company have turned him into a scapegoat for their own mistakes, arguing that much of the resentment toward him is based on petty envy over his rights to Graham's works.
The pain, fear, sorrow and grief that all of us experience at moments in our lives can be overwhelming, as can the petty anger, the envy, the ambition and the greed that we experience almost every day.
Avoid envy, petty jealousy, strife, fighting, gnawing harshness -- breaking down your influence, harming or destroying your own life dream and happiness.
But not for the petty partisan, power-envy reasons that have woken you to the issue.
While claiming to represent the entire body of Wallachian émigrés, Heliade had by then grown disappointed with the political developments, and, in his private correspondence, commented that Romanians in general were "idle", "womanizing", as well as having "the petty and base envies of women", and argued that they required "supervision [and] leadership".
Made by Ms. Leibovitz's younger sister, Barbara, it speaks to a sibling relationship seemingly devoid of envy or petty resentment.
They might never have found out about each other, John O'Neill might never have left the FBI, the World Trade Centre might still be standing, the world would be a different place, had it not been for the eternal human flaws of envy, pride, petty-mindedness and vanity from which errors of judgement flow and tragedies invariably unfurl.
They're also tracing the pathway of envy's equally petty foil, the sensation of schadenfreude — taking pleasure when those whom you envied are themselves brought down low.
(Nor does the thought that envy would be petty directly reduce envy, sadly).
