Sentence examples for so petty that from inspiring English sources
These were the wretched rags of resentment so bitter and old, so petty, that I had been too ashamed even to mention them in therapy, so now I balled them up and tossed them onto Denis's court.
The first three questions are fascinating at the level of character; the Brexit decision was so significant, and the human flaws and vanities that created the moment so petty, that it is impossible not to get drawn in.
In it, the Fort Lee traffic jam was mentioned as just one of many cases (and, I have to admit, not the one that stayed with me) of vengefulness so petty that it inescapably called to mind the American President who incarnated that quality, and was brought down by it.
At the time, I was Geraldo Rivera's senior producer for his nighttime news discussion program on CNBC, and the two hosts (and future Fox colleagues) were engaged in some kind of public feud so petty that I can't recall the substance of it.
Coral were insistent that That'll Be The Day should be the first single, so Petty decided that the song should go out under a collective group name rather than Holly's.
The question is: are we Americans so predictable, so small, so very petty that what we want to discuss in the run-up to the 2016 election is what that husband did with his private parts almost 20 years ago?
Mocking a female candidate's face is fine if you are sitting around with friends or performing a sophomoric sketch, but in doing it in a campaign speech Trump became so petty and stupid that he lowered the bar for creepizoids like Ben Carson, who admits to going after people with bats, bricks, boards, and a hammer when he was a kid, and who tried to stab a friend when he was fourteen.
How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty?
But his righteous indignation can seem misplaced, when so many of the injustices that exercise him are so petty.
New Jersey now boasts America's No. 1 crime family, and New Yorkers are so petty and jealous about it that we won't let Uncle Junior or Dr. Melfi march in Manhattan's Columbus Day parade.
