pettinesses

Despite her friend's gallant defense, this acquaintance, and others, relished telling of Mrs. Gutfreund's supposed 'pettinesses'.

Michael Henry Adams: Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part IV 2009

Cameron is refusing to engage in Brown's games (pettinesses) on Brown's terms.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

Cameron is refusing to engage in Brown's games (pettinesses) on Brown's terms.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

Love has its childishness, other passions have their pettinesses.

Les Miserables 2008

Only so are we 'magnified', given our full dignity and splendour--not by rushing around in panic defending ourselves and standing on our dignity, but by being still enough to reflect and absorb the light flowing from God the Holy Trinity, something so wonderful that it can put into perspective the fears and pettinesses that we think are real life, and silence us for a moment, letting true life in.

Archive 2006-10-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

Only so are we 'magnified', given our full dignity and splendour--not by rushing around in panic defending ourselves and standing on our dignity, but by being still enough to reflect and absorb the light flowing from God the Holy Trinity, something so wonderful that it can put into perspective the fears and pettinesses that we think are real life, and silence us for a moment, letting true life in.

Our Lady of Walsingham Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

Only so are we 'magnified', given our full dignity and splendour – not by rushing around in panic defending ourselves and standing on our dignity, but by being still enough to reflect and absorb the light flowing from God the Holy Trinity, something so wonderful that it can put into perspective the fears and pettinesses that we think are real life, and silence us for a moment, letting true life in.

Sermon on the occasion of the National Pilgrimage to The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Walsingham 2004

That little pink – cheeked dancing – master to marry Katharine? that gibbering ass with the face of a monkey on an organ? that posing, vain, fantastical fop? with his tragedies and his comedies, his innumerable spites and prides and pettinesses?

Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004

Government — straightforward, commonsense men — who were above all pettinesses.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

The light played gently in her mind, dispersing old night-shadows, pettinesses, the little, nagging memories of dreams.

Heir of Sea and Fire McKillip, Patricia A. 1977