| Meanness, pettiness, paltriness seem to shrink away abashed at the sight of that radiant purity. |
| And Anna had been hurt, had been made miserable, by the paltriness of this fib. |
| The opportunity of contrasting the paltriness of earth with the sublimity and reality of the unseen was too great to be resisted. |
| I checked out and went home to reassume my whole-body suit of paltriness and immediately felt much, much better. |
| It is sad that Shakespeare should be credited with the paltriness of lesser men. |
| Most of the successful politicians nowadays win not by their own greatness but by the paltriness of the rest. |
