pettiness

So, as always, Betty's pettiness is to blame for all things.

The 'Mad Men' finale: Who the heck is Megan?

Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Mr. Romney, fired back today in a statement: This type of pettiness is beneath Mike Huckabee.

Huckabee’s Choice Words for Romney - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

And when I came to the word pettiness, and his request that we stop it, well, isn't that the bottom line to any kindof grassroots movement?

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Your pettiness will be the wreath you lay at the foot of your childrens graves.

Perino on McClellan

Can we please move on from this kind of pettiness?

Matthew Yglesias » Scandal!

But I'm not looking forward to 4 years of this kind of pettiness either.

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I don't think that this kind of pettiness is a very good match with Obama's notion of hope, change and progress...if anything, it seems like backpedalling...

Frankenstory

So it is either a kind of pettiness one would expect more from a John McCain than an actual adult, or it is John Bolton-esque contempt for diplomacy with those “godless commies,” or, probably, a combination of the two?

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And those issues are far too important to all of us to be obfuscated by the kind of pettiness we hope to never see in our leaders.

Michael Seitzman: Barack Obama and the Return of Grace

Those who by dint of mental effort can understand a kind of pettiness which, for that matter, can be found on any and every social level, will realize the awe with which the bourgeoisie of Angouleme regarded the Hotel de Bargeton.

Two Poets