Sentences with phrase «seems petty»

Do you end up fighting about stuff that seems petty on the surface?

The deletion of the poll also seems petty when you look at how close it was — Xiaomi's often maligned skin was only narrowly beaten by the favorite.

So often, discord in e-discovery seems petty to the judges, with both sides striving to portray themselves as the «good guys» who are reasonable and conciliatory.

That seems petty even for Bowser.

All that said, the proposed ban seems petty.

Even if the matter seems petty to her friends, it is a big deal to your ex.

Seems petty now, especially if one forgets that Verne and Wells were fighting for the soul of an art form that would frame the great debates of the modern age.

Suddenly, all the hoopla about the upcoming special election to fill the North Fork's vacant seat in the county Legislature seems a petty, meaningless distraction.

It seems the petty squabbles and bitter strife within in the opposition New Patriotic Party [NPP] is not ending anytime soon — information gathered by Peacefmonline.com reveals that a new political party is about to be formed from the NPP by some party gurus.

To prevent trade unions from using this route seems petty and unreasonable.

There are so many different paths to becoming a parent that it seems petty and pointless to try and rate one against another.

Turning down the invite seems petty, and it shifts the focus away from the honor that's been bestowed on the team to one player's personal politics.»

Sometimes it seems petty to argue about word choice in the face of life - threatening problems.

Seems petty to me.

So it may seem petty to remind you of what Heidegger pointed out some time ago: «science does not think.»

It seemed petty to complain as the good times rolled in: Maybe things just work out that way, I rationalized.

Pienaar should have been booked for a bad tackle on Alexis but wasn't and there was a blatant foul throw with the linesman looking straight at the player and failing to take action and although it may seem petty, these things can make a difference.

Today's Telegraph headline about Juncker's drinking just seemed petty.

That might seem petty to some people, but where you are in your life you need someone close to home.

However, and his might seem petty (in fact, I'm sure it is VERY petty), but I really feel the double casting of Howard Stark is one of Marvel's biggest mistakes within their Cinematic Universe.

This is the true story of the backbone of movies like Scarface, that actually seem petty in comparison.

Griping over a very small piece of DLC might seem petty, but I know TT Games can do better.

Such quibbling over semantics may seem petty stuff, particularly when it's done over terminology, however, eLearning is described in the literature using a wide variety of terminology, such as e-Learning, eLearning, Computer Assisted Learning, Instructional Technology, Educational Technology, Information and Communication Technology, Computer Aided Learning, Computer Aided Assessment, Distance Education, and Computer - Mediated Communication (Bayne, 2015; Januszewski & Molenda, 2013; Moore, Dickson - Deane, & Galyen, 2011).

Ashton Kutcher is getting paid three times as much as me» would help big - name stars like Portman or Lawrence, but for us regular folk, because dropping names could make you seem petty in an office environment.

You'll seem petty.

If you're in serious financial distress, discussing the fate of frequent flier miles might seem petty.

This type of error might seem a petty one on the face of it, but it can lead your resume straight to the list of rejected candidates, as many employers lay emphasis on this aspect.

Some of these points may seem petty to you.

It's easy for bad habits to creep in, to let things slide because they seem petty but ultimately, that's all they are unless there is something more serious that needs to be addressed, so discussing them should not be a problem.

Not exact matches

Meeting negativity with more negativity will make your business seem immature, petty, and vengeful.

This «threat» seems to increase when a leader perceives the gospel different than before: an elder or pastor will face some pretty petty attacks.

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.

The petty squabbles seem even pettier.

But after 9/11, many of these things now seemed wrong, or petty, or just ill - fitting.

and yes by «petty» I do mean being angry that a basketball tournament seems to be getting more interest than your religion.

Mocking that seems a bit petty.

When you teach a religion that seems to be obsessed with petty issues you get petty people.

To exclude him seems to be petty and I hope that this is not because of his faith, because on that day he made the choice to be there to help in any way possible.

It seems to always be this same group getting headlines and making the rest of us enlightened non-believers seem as petty and ignorant as the believers.

Disinterest in an expression of sorrow, even if it is in protest of not including a different expression, seems callous and petty.

Indeed, one may speculate on the absurdity of Amos» position, as it must have seemed to his contemporaries, and most of all to the foreign lands here so boldly castigated by this peasant spokesman of a petty deity.

I'm not saying that certain Atheists don't resort to disrespect and petty name calling, but in this specific case it seems that it is aimed toward OTHER atheists.

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.

This would be a nice change but in my exprience on these blogs a great number of the people seem far more interested in petty insults and jabs and any serious debates.

you can find examples of this pathetic god and its very human traits... its all thru out the bible, and it even makes excuses for why god seems so human — two possible reasons for this — either those who wrote the bible screwed up and forgot to make god seem godlike because its all a lie... a fabrication of man... or god isn't a god but rather a petty, hateful alien with a napoleon complex (not sure they have a napoleon in the alien form... godzilla — lol, but godzilla at least is a true possibility... god and those who believe are living in a fantasy world!!

Seems kind of petty to make a child feel alienated or suffer or have to struggle just to prove a point to someone.

Things that seemed to be household routines and petty indulgences in the parish are by myth lifted to the mystery of the whole storied world, the oikoumené

So to comment on the price paid for a player by another club seems a bit petty to me.

It seems pretty petty to get a college student fired from his job, just because he made a joke about needing better defense.

It just seems so malicious and petty.