10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PETTILY»
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pettily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pettily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A ...
But the pettily economical man primarily intends the smallness of his expense,
and consequently the paltriness of his work, an effect which he does not stick at,
so that he can make the expense small. Thus then it is clear that the pettily ...
Saint Thomas (Aquinas), 1896
2
Love and Death in Lawrence and Foucault
... in Lawrence's day, by the megalomaniac /promiscuous Bertrand Russell, and
in our day (say) by the megalomaniac /promiscuous Martin Luther King and John
F. Kennedy — "liberals" who were indeed "so pettily selfish" in their narcissism, ...
Barry Jeffrey Scherr, 2008
3
The Pocket Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus
... group'ie /grabpee/ n. sh ardent follower of touring pop- or rock-music groups,
celebrities, or activities. grouse1 /grows/ n. (pl. same) game bird with a plump
body and feathered legs. grouse2 /grows/ colloq. *v.intr. grumble or complain
pettily.
He was pettily jealous of Moreau and Berna- dotte. He was afraid of the
shrewdness and envious of the wit of Madame de Stael, and hated her
accordingly. His dislike of the patriot of.St. Domingo was as ludicrous as it was
wicked; and, with ...
over against the imbroglio of the world and to an elevation above the pettily
human bustle of life. Man is able to experience and live a Higher and Nobler
within his own nature, and to overcome an alien and even an envious world. And
here ...
6
The life of the spirit: an introduction to philosophy
The predominant tendency is first of all to declare that thought is that
spontaneous creative effort which raises man by himself above the pettily human
and leads him to truth by enabling him to participate in the life of the world. It was
thought in ...
And, prosaically though it rolled, what a very different life it always became from
what any man imagined that his life would be, from the future which he had
pictured, from the illusion, high or small, which he had gilded for himself, with his
pettily ...
8
Belgravia: A London Magazine
He was pettily jealous of Moreau and Berna- dotte. He was afraid of the
shrewdness and envious of the wit of Madame de Stael, and hated her
accordingly. His dislike of the patriot of St. Domingo was as ludicrous as it was
wicked ; and, with ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1867
9
The Collected Essays of Barbara Hardy
The ultimate boast and gratification can seem (immediately) rather pettily
feminine and (ultimately) pettily masculine, though the poem is concerned to
dismiss conventional beauty, and its rejections of cosmetic and narcissistic
devices ...
... strength was secular sagacity, which, of course, in a deeper sense was exactly
its lack of strength, the art of governing that in its craving for power at times pettily
tormented people and in its fear of people at times pettily bargained with them.
Søren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, 1998
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PETTILY»
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pettily is used in the context of the following news items.
Why everyone should chill out about the term 'ethnic restaurant'
Compared to that, we're not hateful, but we are pettily pissy, ready to one-up anybody who doesn't comply with the constantly changing rules ... «Chicago Reader, Jul 15»
'Entertainment Weekly' Apologized For Using A Racially Insensitive …
... two women were pettily fighting. In addition to this angle, a lot of the art used with the stories was regrettable, including Entertainment Weekly, ... «UPROXX, Jul 15»
Some Aspects of Corporate Governance
Rather pettily the Minister instructed the Chairman not to settle the bills submitted to the Corporation by the lawyer. Fairly typically the Chairman ... «The Island.lk, Jul 15»
Greenman: De Blasio outright blasting Cuomo is a big risk for New …
Cuomo was still going out of his way to pettily punish de Blasio, sometimes at the city's expense. It was time to try something different. But the ... «New York Daily News, Jun 15»
Sierra Leone News : Lawyer Drags Bar into Filthy Morass
... against His Excellency the President who has better things to do than involve himself so pettily in any aspect of Bar Association elections. «Awareness Times, Jun 15»
5 Questions For Prakash Belawadi
Witness, for instance, how the yoga day was mixed up so pettily with anti-Hindutva sentiment. So, that's the ambivalent answer to your question. «Swarajya, Jun 15»
In Sierra Leone, a Lawyer took Bar Association into the Mud
... a shameful untruth against the President who has better things to do than involve himself so pettily in any aspect of Bar Association elections. «Awareness Times, Jun 15»
ONE TAKE ON JAPANESE CINEMA:From goodness to greatness
One notable dissenter was contrarian cinephile publication Eiga Geijutsu, which pettily put it at the top of its worst 10 list. “The Light Shines Only ... «Asahi Shimbun, Jun 15»
How The BBC Brought The "Unfilmable" Strange & Norrell To TV
... you can see that basically underneath he's just a lost little boy who's made this terrible mistake and is just quite pettily trying to not let anyone ... «io9, Jun 15»
Film Review: 'Spy'
The film confuses missplaced female empowerment with luxury consumerism and pettily competitive comaraderie, further distracted by gross body humour and ... «CineVue, Jun 15»
