Sentence examples for petty thoughts from inspiring English sources

… reaching a crescendo with: Thy rope of sands, / Which petty thoughts have made … / Away; take heed; / I will abroad.

All right, fine — let's set aside the awful fund-raiser, and all petty thoughts in general, and just take a moment to breathe.

Petty thoughts, perhaps, for the most important guy you've never heard of in advertising.

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She disparages writing, calling it lines of black segments that look like insect feces, and fame is "a ribbon tied around a sack filled with blood, flesh, words.... and petty thoughts".

Mr. LaBute, who specializes in nasty, has transformed his petty thought into a tough-minded play whose ideas are highly provocative, even by its author's own prickly standards.

The book's final story, "Sixty-Five Million Years," tells of a priest, Father Hennessey, who has gone numb to the voices he hears in confession, the "catalog of little cruelties, omissions, vanities, impure thoughts, petty indulgences, hatreds and angers, curses and unchecked passions of his completely ordinary parishioners".

This may seem petty at first thought, but I think its an underrated aspect of taking part in electronic communities.

Long term, somehow we have plenty of room for all those years ago, for the big thoughts, the petty grudges, the songs that carried our dreams along.

I can see the little petty, sulky worms of your thoughts, eating you up because you're dead.

Trivia, indeed, consumes many of Tom's musings, but Chadwick's achievement is such that Ripple's small thoughts — slight observations, petty miseries, daily regrets — come to seem worthy of center stage.