Sentences with phrase «into petty»

«I was no angel, got into some petty stuff, on the perimeters of gangs, drove cars illegally.

With the entire war wrapped up by the end of the first movie, the second movie just features Hawkeye back on Earth, getting into petty slap - fights with Justin Hammer in another malfunctioning knockoff Iron Man suit.

But not so far behind this wide - eyed poetry is a desire to turn it from discovery into a petty - minded bureaucracy.

They dismissed the person who put them on the map, Bob took this in good humour and would not be drawn into the petty quagmire of climate vulgarity.

Through the band's tense dialogue, the mythological status of the pop song dissipates into the petty realities behind something seemingly perfect.

Those stink bombs, along with his forays into petty vandalism, and pushing his sister from a window, are luridly outlined in Rose's new memoir - cum - educational manifesto, Square Peg: My Story and What it Means for Raising Innovators, Visionaries, and Out - of - the - Box Thinkers.

Diving into petty boyfriend jealousies and one riotous sex scene required by the demon, Truth or Dare ultimate

Diving into petty boyfriend jealousies and one riotous sex scene required by the demon, Truth or Dare ultimately plays like soap - opera trash, making you wonder if these onscreen possessions weren't scripted by bored kids grown tired of their own party games.

Thanks to Danny DeVito's directing and the facial acting of its two leads, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, we understand that this once - loving couple has eased slowly and uncertainly into petty (but steadily escalating) behavior.

In Ariel (1988), an unemployed Laplander hits Helsinki with nothing but hope and a Cadillac convertible with a stubborn roof and falls into petty crime.

But even in the romantic scenes, her Elizabeth is so strong - willed and charismatic, the character's forced excursions into petty hysterics feel completely absurd.

But Loveless has a careful alchemy of psychological acuity and societal insight that imbues nearly every shot (a close - up of a face, an epic vista, a tension - filled pan) with a gathering insight into the ripple effects of turning private miseries into petty wars.

My friends and I may get into petty disagreements and some of the lessons that Positive Discipline teaches you can even help us.

What started out as a war of words evolved Wednesday night into a petty timeout, one head coach being held back from going after the other, that head coach refusing to shake hands after the game, a minor on - court fracas, and then one of the most savage postgame press conferences you're ever going to see.

Each of these notions will inevitably fail to capture the fullness of a reality, and so they will continue to crash against each other until they fall into petty paradox.

You have taken a story about a community pulling together, drawing strength and inspiration from one another regardless of race and drawn it into a petty argument.

Dragging the president into this petty bickering and hatred is not making the world a better place.

Self - service checkout technology may offer convenience and speed, but it also helps turn law - abiding shoppers into petty thieves by giving them «ready - made excuses» to take merchandise without paying, two criminologists say.

When the original Lloyd's café degenerated into a petty den of stockjobbing and gambling during the 1760s, customers induced a waiter to open New Lloyd's Coffee House — with its own New Lloyd's List.

Not exact matches

His band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.

This was the lesson taught by William Petty in the 17th century and used by economists ever since: The market price of land, a government bond or other security is calculated by dividing its expected income stream by the going rate of interest — that is, «capitalizing» its rent (or any other flow of income) into what a bank would lend.

And to try to frighten people into belief just identifies your god as a petty punk.

into motion making petty, mean spirited, sarcastic, and unsubstantial comments.

They are impulsive, they backslide, they fall into temptations, they are petty and prideful!

If jesus (might have existed) was telling the truth, and your god is so petty that he MUST be worshipped for one to get into heaven, then that's not a place I would want to be.

And don't be petty and vindictive and try to weasel this into some kind of back handed threat because it is none of that.

Feeling ashamed at being so petty does not banish the pettiness, for fresh occasions keep cropping up which fan the smoldering sparks of resentment into flame.

As I got out into the world myself, I was stunned by how petty and (for lack of a better word.)?

Most of the selfish trolls on here are turning this young man's sacrifice for his faith into a forum for their own petty grievances.

Petty frustrations, rushed lessons, and snatched conversations were marshalled into neat sixty - minute units, the school bell obliterating any memory of Pärt's tintinnabuli.

I'm an atheist, and I don't really care what others believe, as long as no one is trying to force me into their beliefs (and I don't mean things like putting Bible passages in courthouses, those arguments are just petty).

What turns Shylock from a petty, circumspect miser into a ruthless avenger is his daughter's elopement.

This seems extremely petty... Erecting a billboard that in all honesty will do nothing in terms of convincing people and then getting into a «billboard war» with Christians at the cost of thousands of dollars.

Yet such fulfillment could come only through obedience to the God whose moral demands had undergirded it at its best, not through the petty legalism into which it had fallen.

Actually, most of us vote for the person we think wil best lead this country away from the petty mocking and insults and into a better, more economically sound future.

This, then, is what ecumenism means for the black Christian: crossing those petty lines of division which we have patterned after white churches and denominations and entering into that broader area of the Christian faith which God has delivered into our hands.

You know, we who CHOOSE to believe in REALITY and who choose a morality based upon HUMAN love, compassion, mindful awareness, and LOGIC as opposed to a salvation - based transactional morality - exchange entered into with a petty, arrogant, childish, vengeful, MYTHOLOGICAL «Sky Father» in the hopes that, should we live a «good» life according to «His» contradictory, hypocritical, and inconsistent «rules» (or Commandments, or whatever you enjoy calling them) or else spend «Eternity» burning in everlasting torment in «Hell» you know, because «God» loves us so much.

Another vernacular reference came fast on the heels of that one: as soon as they picked up the spoon, they smashed the bowl — bringing the whole Church into disrepute by wielding their petty powers.

What was essential to them, however, was to incorporate Jesus into the divinity in such a way as to raise him beyond the petty gods and goddesses of their tradition.

It's just incredibly petty and desperate to claim that 1 goal that you didn't even make any sort of effort into.

The pathology of this collapse is obvious: the politics of the ring, which are based on petty feuds and revenge: the failure of Madison Square Garden to put money back into the sport that did so much to make its reputation; the lack of a commanding figure to lead the game out of the wilderness, to bring a semblance of organization and thought to it, in brief to revive public interest.

It made me a better driver and I'm taking everything I learned into this opportunity to run for Petty Motorsports and run for championships.

Jack Roush and Richard Petty Motorsports, two organizations with a close working relationship, both made offers to bring Bowyer into the Ford camp.

The man and the event are synonymous; no one has ever gained so much attention for losing a race as Petty did at the Daytona 500 in 1976, when he and David Pearson crashed into each other with the checkered flag in sight.

As they entered the home stretch, Petty pinched Pearson into the outside retaining wall.

What is wrong with the Jets moving on, getting a handle on Smith, moving Bryce Petty along, throwing rookie Christian Hackenberg into the fire?

Big Jesse Sykes, who at 450 pounds is an unofficial Petty bodyguard and something of a sage in the garages, stuffs his catcher's - mitt hands into his overalls and remarks on the drivers of past and present.

In 1986 Petty gave some telling advice to the young Bill Elliott, who was hurtling into stardom but was baffled by the limelight.

He's an absolute joy who doesn't really dip into the NBA's petty personality culture — a culture with immense charm of its own, of course.

Because Franklin is a competitor, which is another way of saying he's as petty as petty can be, from saying Pitt and Akron were basically the same team to nearly getting into a fight with former Georgia (and current Mississippi State) defensive coordinator Todd Grantham in 2011.