| Like many modern Irish writers, Beckett resented the pettiness, prejudice and prudery of his country of birth. |
| Both had their reservations, but a lot of the pettiness had been put aside. |
| Whatever the motivations of those who supported his ennoblement, however, there was no disguising the pettiness of those who opposed it. |
| An intermittent pettiness about where throw-ins and free kicks are taken from that defies logic is to be expected. |
| What envyings, spites, meannesses and miserable pettinesses arise from this greed of money! |
| Mademoiselle Cormon had ended, as it was natural she should end, in contemplating herself only in the infinite pettinesses of her life. |
