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How wonderful that you are not beset by stupid everyday concerns and petty moral dilemmas.
U.S. coverage of the story rapidly descended from humanitarian anguish to material cynicism to petty curiosity.
The trouble with a legal system that allows a significant probability of convicting innocent people is that it allows unscrupulous prosecutors to become petty tyrants.
And then I saw, right in front of my eyes, on the deck of the carrier, a chief petty officer sliced into three parts by a propeller blade.
He is unfair, often in a petty way, to people with whom he disagrees--notably, for some reason, Alan Greenspan.