Sentences with phrase «like petty»

I know it sounds like petty complaints, but I could never get used it.

Architects make installation art look like petty theft by comparison.

And the more content BioWare and Electronic Arts release for ME3 multiplayer, the more these choices feel not only like a disincentive to bother with multiplayer anymore, but also like a petty method to try and make a few extra bucks that is getting in the way of an otherwise brilliant multiplayer mode.

I mean, I've had matches where I sabotage the final two players, each in their own tower firing rockets back and forth like petty videogame aristocrats.

He's a heavy smoker and drinker, and often a friend to those in the «undesirable» classes of society like petty thieves and prostitutes.

The arguing, name calling, and finger pointing may have seemed like petty high school drama to some people, but one individual is taking the issue seriously.

This may seem like a petty complaint, but at this end of the spectrum, your every whim should be catered to...

Everybody, that is, except Natalie Portman, who seemed none too pleased about having to follow Oprah's speech, and made her «here are the all - male nominees» quip look like a petty attempt to upstage the queen.

Even if he were tempted by it, a compromise would look to all the world like a petty quid pro quo, if the world is paying attention.

In his shopping cart of items with multi-billion-dollar price tags, the government piece of a new Penn Station almost looks like petty cash.

«It just seems like a petty squabble when we've got a real fight on our hands.»

there's still some things like petty theft or whatever going on, but these people are the people of the 20th and 21st centuries, and they like the world they built, and they keep these seemingly redudant roles intact because they are who they are.

Some of the biblical pictures are so curiously patterned after human action that God comes off looking like a petty tyrant.

It's interesting, because he's drawing most of his inspiration from heartland rockers like Petty and Springsteen, whose voices floated to the top of the mix.

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

Indeed, many are now taking the name of God in vain and using it to support worldly desires like petty political causes.

An investigation by USA Today found that the technology was used even for routine crimes, like petty theft.

Not exact matches

You are a ruthless, vindictive, petty, selfish scoundrel (like the boss on The Simpsons) who cares nothing for his employees and chooses instead to hole yourself up in your castle of a home except when you emerge to fire someone eating donuts instead of working.

That led me to do more things along those lines, and when I got the Cup level I saw drivers like Bill Elliott, Richard Petty, and Dale Earnhardt doing great things for charity.

In order to maintain a cohesive team, do not spread gossip, cause another to feel like an outcast, or grumble about petty things.

You know Petty from hits like «Free Fallin», «Stop Draggin» My Heart Around,» «American Girl,» «Breakdown»... the list goes on and on.

Tell Pandora your favorite song is «Casey Jones» by the Grateful Dead, and within seconds it will create a station — Casey Jones Radio — that streams nonstop songs from artists such as the Youngbloods, the Byrds, and the Beatles, along with stuff you might not expect, like R.E.M., the Jam, and Tom Petty.

You may find that like the Tom Petty song lyric that «the waiting is the hardest part.»

Instead of focusing exclusively on petty things like ROI (return on investment), Hsieh's team focuses on an ROI of a different kind: ROCH (return on collisionable hours).

Like a medieval petty lord demanding a toll for transporting goods across his territory, Coderre has claimed that his municipality can now override federal jurisdiction in blocking national infrastructure under the guise of «social license».

She jumped before she was pushed and she implemented an expense disclosure policy that, like ball bearings underfoot, created chaos by exposing the PC government's culture of entitlement in painstaking and petty detail.

You look petty when you do stuff like this.

@edgelbraith — i assume you are talking about your religion of atheism and I have to agree that some of you are very childish (in addition to being hateful, petty & devoid of compassion for others) but I don't think it's fair to lump all of you in a group like that.

Because they focused on their petty, pseudo-religious rules while losing sight of the important stuff like loving God and loving people.

This «god» you chuckleheads have made up sounds so petty, jealous, and hypocritical that it sounds like god is just like man.

I especially like all the parts about god punishing innocent people for petty reasons.

Really you know, its stuff like this that just makes christains look so petty and ridiculous.

(Critics of blasphemy laws like Pakistan's argue the laws are primarily used for petty vendettas and persecuting minority groups.)

Like the 10 steps... been very diverted by some petty behavior at my church, trying to get above it all.

Like Seth and Amy: Rachel Stone at Her.Meneutics with «Breastfeeding in Church, and Other Petty Crimes»

Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.

If «God Almighty» is really so petty as to require people to incant the correct name (whether it's Jesus, Mohammed, Bodhisattva, etc.), eat the «right foods», dress the «right way», treat women like dirt, etc., then God has a lot of growing up to do.

Their only sin is not believing in god, I mean how petty for something like an all powerful creature in the universe.

Given the awesome might and splendor and triumphs of Assyria and then Babylon, was it not obvious that the shepherd - god of Israel was but a local spirit, a petty tribal god who was hardly a match for the likes of Marduk, god of Babylon?

Instead they acted like political hacks rather than spiritual authorities, doubling down on the invective and serving up to the American public an even deeper draught of petty partisanship.

Ooh I know I'll live like a decent human being and if there is a God I doubt that he / she will be as petty and small minded as followers like HeavenSent, fred, and George.

Those who believe in the true value of service wouldn't write a commentary like yours which is petty and self serving.

Guys like this only make atheists look petty and intrusive.

This lawsuit is simply petty and spiteful — like the fundamentalist wretches that it represents.

But, what is almost more saddening, situations (and the articles highlighting extreme examples, naturally excluding the other entirely peaceful side of Islam) like these will only polarize the West against the Islam in an unending cyclic battle that has degraded to petty insults and complete hatred for one another (these comments are perfect proof, i.e. calling the other «barbaric» or «incompetent», or my favorite, say «death to be you»).

You do realize that when stories like this are published, the writers have made damn sure they have their facts straight to avoid petty lawsuits... right?

topher: i would like to debate why anyone would want to worship such a vindictive petty pr1ck, if not out of fear

Perhaps the Occupy Movement will bring us to the point where we once again as a society decide we want to uphold the rule of law, not just for the petty crimes of the poor, but also the high crimes of the rich and their politician puppets like Blair.

Sounds like a relative of a petty despot to me.

If people like you would just stop being so small, hateful and petty, liberals would have a lot less to say to you.