Pettiness, your chief's patent.

Most people long to overcome pettiness and become part of something larger.

I don't know what you think my life is like, reducing it all to the pettiness of somebody stealing from the cookie jar.

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

The hubbub of tawdry disclosures and investigations addressing every aspect of a widening scandal may well last for weeks. In the meantime, Americans can only hope that their national elected representatives show an equal willingness to face up to and take responsibility for their failures, pettiness, and insistence on putting partisanship ahead of the country s manifest and urgent needs.

The biggest idea was that Britain s monarchy serves to connect the country s past to its future in ways that transcend the pettiness and ugliness of quotidian politics. The heritage of kings and queens stretching back across more than a millennium the enduring symbolism of crowns and coaches, and the literal embodiment of the English and now the British state binds Britons together in a common journey.