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Discover LudwigThe phrase "petty frustrations" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it whenever you want to refer to small annoyances or irritations. For example, "My day was filled with petty frustrations, such as a computer that kept freezing up."
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Richard Linklater's new film "Before Midnight" probably comes closer to the messy delights and petty frustrations of modern monogamy.
American businesspeople who have come to firsthand grips with the many petty frustrations of doing business here know why.
The lyrics are full of insults and petty frustrations about office drudgery, spoiled rock stars and consumerism.
Job blogs bring frontline news from the modern workplace, documenting its stupid routines, petty frustrations and inane management-speak.
Discomforting and at times boring to look at, it conveys the tedium, incarceration and petty frustrations of war with unflinching veracity.
It is striking, too, that many complaints were over unclean offices, unclear fees for official services and petty frustrations, rather than corruption alone.Either fight, against dengue or shoddy public services, could yet be reversed in Lahore.
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This phase in our data security will remain perfect forever, and I am sure that this iteration of online security will never turn into a bunch of needless, petty frustration.
Events in real life – petty humiliations, frustrations, resentments – are explained by reference to this overarching "single narrative".
The outcome is less important to Mr. Farhadi than what leads up to it, and the film is remarkably deft in capturing the petty, cumulative frustrations of modern city life.
But though I am a very hopeful person I am not immune to petty emotions, frustration, and depression.
One tradition that Kelman has previously been happy to place himself within is that of Kafka: in his writing he is drawn to scenarios that depict the petty humiliations and frustrations of bureaucracy – in hospital, a job centre, or the first day on the factory floor.
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