Washington Memo Pettiness, such pettiness, in this noxious swamp of maybe-morons.
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And that's because it is — but when heartbroken, a simple exercise that enables one's pettiness without actually reaching out to the person who deserves said pettiness is a win.
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His best explanation for Reza getting lawyers involved -- pettiness.
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Let's leave the pettiness and the scamming to the professionals.
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Emphasis on the love part — pettiness won't get you anywhere.
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Apple is no longer serving pettiness at the Genius Bar.
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But some inexplicably mature people are beyond social media's pettiness.
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There's pettiness all around, and it's pretty fun to watch.
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Your children will read about your pettiness one day soon.
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Unfortunately, the rest of us will only remember the pettiness.
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We betray both our history and future with such pettiness.
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The pettiness to Stalin's complaints about the film is chilling.
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Enter Adrian Pearce, a 65-year-old Edmonton man who has reached previously uncharted levels of pettiness—a level of pettiness that has somehow, someway been around so long it's kind of become sweet.
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In its own way, there was something inspiring to Townshend's pettiness.
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Pettiness then becomes the filter of choice for all communication, henceforth.
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Diddy's pettiness is on a diff level 👌🏿😀 #DiddyCrop pic.twitter.
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She became a powerful symbol for pettiness because she emerged triumphant.
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The callousness of this proposal is surpassed only by its pettiness.
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Tempers can be aggravated based on distorted perception, leading to pettiness.
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Is there anything more comforting than hearing about other people's pettiness?
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Dan Snyder has an endless budget for pettiness, it should be noted.
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Those are the people that are actually being punished by this pettiness.
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Both of these were remedied, but not before Trump's pettiness showed through.
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Even after McCain passed away, Trump could not rise above his pettiness.
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Here is her system of enlightened grudge keeping to process your pettiness.
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It comes out of his character, his humanity, all of his pettiness.
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The other is the sheer pettiness of many of the ragers' complaints.
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I think people want us to rise above the pettiness, the smallness.
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What's worse: Eichenwald's (alleged) humiliating reviews of his own book or WikiLeaks' pettiness?
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Pettiness cannot be allowed to stand in the face of such overwhelming problems.
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The politics of pettiness trivializes even the most serious social and political matters.
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While there's plenty of pettiness to keep us occupied — including Taylor Swift vs.
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They market name-calling as truth-telling, pettiness as boldness, vanity as conviction.
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"The level of pettiness is quite familiar," Richards said with a thinking emoji.
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Avoid aggression and pettiness, as Mars is still retrograde—don't be a bully!
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Put pettiness aside and return to the agonizing creation of your guest list.
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To make something musically uninspiring enough to represent the pettiness that underlies it?
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No one has ever won a Bachelor franchise by waging a pettiness war.
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"There's some pettiness and jealousy in the air," he told a shareholders meeting.
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It's too sprawling for that, and too affectionately aware of its characters' pettiness.
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In more progressive circles, a varied but related pettiness has become fashionable as well.
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Even more exhausting is his fascination with resentment, jealousy, and pettiness as guiding emotions.
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But this book's story of selfishness, pettiness, anger, and poor choices is comparatively predictable.
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"Too bad his legacy will be that of pettiness," yet another Trump fan remarked.
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It just feels really, really good to do something out of spite or pettiness.
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In a Communist morality tale, Yan's mother's pettiness would have made her the villain.
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" "House Republicans had front row seats to @POTUS's dazzling display of pettiness and insecurity.
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Even when unintentional, Swift can't get out of the way of her own pettiness.
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The pettiness made me feel sorry for this town for the very first time.
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We have both learned a lesson about the collateral damage of pettiness and polarization.
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If you are new to The Circle, get ready for pettiness, laughs, and scheming.
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Much about today's political climate is unusual, but pettiness and criminality are nothing new.
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No, it is not the Vindman brothers who have been disgraced by this pettiness.
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That this scene in Marshall unfolded with expert shade and pettiness was a brilliant inclusion.
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Such pettiness and mistakes will make it harder to build on today's important counterterrorism success.
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"It's not about the pettiness of champagne versus sparkling wine," said Paquette in a statement.
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Disapprove of the president's style if you like, but don't sacrifice sound policy to pettiness.
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Compared to Beyoncé, where the evidence of pettiness is there in her gesture, her persona.
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We should never be resigned to this dysfunctional pettiness, and there's nothing amusing about it.
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There's always drama, pettiness, cat-fights, not just in romantic relationships, but even amongst friends.
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That these leaders were overseeing such small-bore operations typifies the pettiness of gang business.
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Marvel rage recognizably drew on the same pathological pettiness as straw rage and hamburger rage.
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At the end of the second verse, Perry lifts her pettiness to a spiritual plane.
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I am still taken aback: the pettiness, the meanness, the extravagant flights of pure fantasy.
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When you do, some of his supporters will inevitably accuse you of humorlessness or pettiness.
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That's why the negativity, the pettiness, the small-mindedness of our politics today drives me crazy.
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The pettiness and impulsivity on display here would be pretty funny if it weren't so scary.
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This Apple flex has it all: razor wit, perfect comedic timing, and staggering levels of pettiness.
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His pettiness and cruelty and vanity are, without any accompanying authority, now merely pitiful and small.
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Because of Ethan and Sam's shenanigans in season 1, it was easy to overlook Lisa's pettiness.
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I think they see through the pettiness, they see through the politics of all of it.
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"Conrad saw that terrorism was just another mode of pettiness, of stupidity, of expression," he said.
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They should choose to rise above the ugliness and the pettiness, rather than succumb to it.
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Petty behavior does not get you a rose, and this whole feud is dripping with pettiness.
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But as reprehensible as that crime was, it was almost sad in its pettiness and hastiness.
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She would have made a superb president if not for American pettiness, misogyny, and cultured ignorance.
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Early last year, Ms. Collins chastised the group for what she saw as occasional reflexive pettiness.
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You could call it stubbornness, or reacting with pettiness to outsiders telling them what to do.
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And that pettiness itself tells you a lot about the kind of people now running America.
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Poetry isn't magical or removed from dirty, compromising political and personal acts, pettiness, racism, sexism, suffering.
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" White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, meanwhile, accused the Democrats of "pettiness" and "political grandstanding.
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Of course, lacking any creative pettiness, "Lying Ted" morphed into "Crooked Hillary" for the general election.
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Such a catastrophic outcome would, ironically, be a most unpetty result of Trump's innate, pathological pettiness.
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Many Democrats have resigned themselves to becoming attack dogs who use pettiness to keep their base rabid.
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" Gay, who often gripes about her six unnamed Twitter foes, has written, "Pettiness is a healthy outlet.
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After nearly two years of pettiness, Google has finally brought YouTube back to Amazon Fire TV devices.
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And yet the film isn't a work of pettiness, but rather a deepening of the series' themes.
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"I don't think pettiness is a strategy and I don't think retribution is a strategy," he said.
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Even if Sam doesn't know the dragonfire bit, the murder entitles him to some hard-earned pettiness.
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In the first few episodes of season two, Big Little Lies turns the pettiness up a notch.
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He doesn't hide his pettiness, bury his petulance or successfully distract us from his vulgarity and bigotry.
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The state's generally polite churchgoing culture seems uncomfortable with the president's pettiness, self-absorption, vulgarities and vanity.
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She has given me support, encouragement and gentle reprimands to let go, to resist pettiness, to forgive.
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Some of the movement's leaders were notorious for their egos, pettiness and their demeaning treatment of women.
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While they're not necessarily fans of Andrus, they don't want pettiness to draw the spotlight to Idaho.
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But the boyish and apparently not so subtle joy Brady exhibited after is delicious in its pettiness.
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Hulu's apparent pettiness for releasing its documentary right before Netflix's is getting a fair bit of praise online.
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" He added, "I think they see through the pettiness, they see through the politics of all of it.
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When compared to large-scale international problems, the pettiness of the art world becomes that much more glaring.
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In fact, their pettiness is, in a sense, actually an argument in favor of using them more liberally.
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"Pettiness and jealousy" are outweighing the common good, Arnault said Thursday at a meeting of LVMH (LVMHF) shareholders.
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Even if Trump isn't winning over many actual teens, he's clearly speaking their language of petulance and pettiness.
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Not least because the other thing about WWE babyfaces, the meanness and pettiness when challenged, was completely absent.
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Here, she begins to understand the Commander's true nature, and has to contend with unexpected pettiness from Nick.
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But amidst all of the pettiness and squabbles, Congress must pass the Taylor Force Act above all else.
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His characters give voice to paranoia, psychosis and pettiness, but their author isn't telling you what to think.
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Bots, which promise to make us more godlike, are instead revealing our all-too-human shortcomings and pettiness.
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"Attention," a highlight track featuring some of the album's best production, is fixated on the pettiness of dating.
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Mr. Sousa Mendes's actions were brought to the attention of his superiors by an act of fantastic pettiness.
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While writing this poem, I indulged my pettiness, and in revising, I did my best to pull back.
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The V.M.A.s had taken a stand against ego, against pettiness, against self-absorption — at least for this year.
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They also get pettiness points for canoodling at an event his ex, Fyre Festival's promoter Bella Hadid, attended.
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The pettiness radiates outward, as does the viciousness and lack of ethics — to his lawyers, to his kin.
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Now, unfortunately, his pettiness has gone dangerously international with his "Little Rocket Man" insult of North Korea's leader.
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People started sending money, and now some are actually getting paid to carry out such acts of professional pettiness.
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His talent for projecting pettiness, self-doubt, and stunted emotions has made him an unpredictable and engaging quantity onscreen.
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Never underestimate a Gallagher's capacity for pettiness, and also expect Liam's rebuttal of the song via Twitter by tonight.
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When bravado bubbles up in a woman, why do we view it as a sign of weakness and pettiness?
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Aro told the magazine that it was "scary" to see the U.S. government allow "pettiness" to affect public decisionmaking.
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His trolling of Emanuel goes beyond pettiness; it highlights the deleterious effect liberal policies can have on public safety.
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A lot has been written about what "Veep" has to say about the destructiveness and pettiness of American governance.
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With closer "1-of-1," however, she retreats to a more leisurely pace, denouncing the pettiness of rap rivalries.
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Because ur music and nose job are trash I'm about to take my pettiness to a whole new level.
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All three are strikingly bland, even in the middle-school pettiness of their preoccupations with looks, possessions and status.
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Just be careful not to linger on problems for too long, because you risk feeding into negativity and pettiness.
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It would be easy to assume, surveying the national scene, that pettiness is universally regarded as a bad thing.
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It may or may not have been done out of pettiness, but that hasn't stopped people's interest from being piqued.
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The whole idea made me laugh at its extreme pettiness, but ended up perfectly representing the process of moving on.
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Here we find courage, pettiness, self-deception, love, profundity, triviality, sadness, joy, munificence, greed, theatricality, restraint, wit, pomposity, despair, hope.
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Obviously, the song is bad—and funny—partly because of its extreme pettiness and unsavory references to Taylor's past beeves.
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Each reached a point where, for reasons moral or political, Trump's pettiness and viciousness could no longer be shrugged off.
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Of course if we flip over the card of the ordinary virtues we find the ordinary vices: resentment, pettiness, chauvinism.
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But what's really striking to me is not so much the extent of corruption among Trump officials as its pettiness.
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Better yet, we&aposre over the polish and pettiness of the Kardashians and we&aposre sick of West&aposs antics.
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Rather than rising to the honor of the office, Trump has lowered the office with his whiny, fragile, vindictive pettiness.
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In fact, he remains himself in every aspect, his miserable pettiness impervious to any glimmer of uplift through his office.
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It's the most empowering feeling, because it makes you want to worry about the pettiness and trivial things a lot less.
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Until then, and if the premiere is any indication, you can expect lots of pettiness, double-talk, snark, and sexual tension.
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Oddly, those who openly practice the politics of pettiness don't deny its flippancy, yet they still demand to be taken seriously.
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But there's something about the absurdity and utter pettiness of the lie — its uselessness — that broadcasts the impulse even more clearly.
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We hate that we have to keep saying this, but whoever claimed that Canadians harbor no pettiness was a goddamn liar.
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To wit: the maneuver that played out yesterday on Brand Twitter, that land of performative pettiness and intractable hey-fellow-kidsism.
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We go from Lance's pettiness to LeBron's bemusement to Lance's deviousness to LeBron's frustration to Lance's smugness to LeBron's genuine amusement.
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In a gesture of sheer pettiness the State Department took away his passport so that he couldn't fight outside the country.
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The same couldn't be said for Trotter himself, whose principles weren't always enough to keep his competitiveness and pettiness at bay.
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In addition to his demonstrable indecency, cruelty and lack of civility, President Trump has jealously sunk into the depths of pettiness.
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It was a classic move from the kid who has become the living embodiment of every pointless pettiness associated with Duke.
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It's worth keeping in mind the ways that N.F.L. owners have already engaged in pettiness: by refusing to employ protest leaders.
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It makes for riveting television only rivaled by the signature pettiness of Bravo's Real Housewives, but it has been utterly exhausting.
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She was the sort of person who could draw anyone out, talk about anything, and forgive everything except pretension and pettiness.
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As the inquiry builds, the suspects are stripped of their defenses, exposing pettiness, sharp teeth, false fronts and one pure heart.
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Such pettiness is rooted in thinking born in a previous century when the Soviet Union was the greatest menace facing the West.
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This pettiness doesn't require the user to be informed; nor are there any other requisite qualifications for the message to go viral.
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Give each other another chance" and in English, "Can we accept all of our differences, and put aside all of the pettiness?
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Twitter users have expressed a growing admiration for his pettiness, and there's even a Facebook fan page for Pelkey's wooden finger statue.
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This is (hilarious) sports fan pettiness, but it's also worth noting the syntax, and all that heady talk of martyrdom and armageddon.
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He does not judge their time-wasting pettiness, so much as he celebrates the flaws that make us so tragically, wonderfully, human.
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The pettiness is wearing because it is not underpinned by respect (which is odd, because on the field, the opposite is true).
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The inward instincts, the isolation, the nationalism and pettiness of the Trump administration had caused perhaps the biggest rethink since 9/11.
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The women in suburban Dallas all conceded they have cringed sometimes at Mr. Trump, citing his pettiness, impulsiveness, profanity and name calling.
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"Chinese government authorities clearly hope to create a reality in which bureaucratic pettiness could significantly limit people's rights," explains Human Rights Watch.
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There's a core instability to the relationships in his work, heightened by his refusal to buff out the pettiness and casual cruelty.
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In 2012 he was fired by him after a dust-up whose central elements — operatics and pettiness — sit atop fashion's periodic table.
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Any online time-waster offers an escape from the world, often by preying on your worst instincts: envy, pettiness, poor impulse control.
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There are too many people on both sides blaming one another for the way they voted and too much name-calling and pettiness.
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Because people are sucked into a maelstrom of pettiness, scandal and outrage, they lose sight of what matters for the society they share.
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Belichick might be too old to enjoy the rampant pettiness of social media, but I know he still enjoys the old-fashioned version.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, accused Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Schumer of "pettiness" in declining to attend Tuesday afternoon's meeting.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, pathological pettiness almost surely put Donald Trump over the top in the 2016 election.
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But with great wealth comes great pettiness; Obama's gentle rebukes provoked fury — and a huge swing in financial industry political contributions toward Republicans.
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Prioritization will constitute the intentional subordination, not just of one claim to another, but of all claims to the pettiness of congressional politics.
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Grande's tweets might have set everyone up to expect a thrashing laced with pettiness, but "thank u, next" was actually a pump-fake.
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Usually, these moments of pettiness are escalated and egged on by thousands of fans, who delight in watching celebrities bicker with each other.
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She represents the next evolution of mankind, where we all love our nipples, embrace our pettiness and burst out of the womb like this.
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Popularized by reality TV and social media quips, this pettiness lacks all the civic virtues that would make it constructive in the public square.
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The mundane, pettiness, regret—the whole spectrum of the everyday was alleviated, a better self got to get all the way the fuck down.
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"That's why the negativity, the pettiness, the small-mindedness of our politics drives me crazy," a solicitation email from Biden, provided to CNN, said.
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That all changed last year when Pearce made a Facebook post about it and the internet couldn't get enough of his next-level pettiness.
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These legal acrobatics show how far the government will go to silence journalists, including the pettiness of forcing me to spend the night in jail.
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You know when somebody brings out your pettiness or your anxiety or anger, and you find yourself saying and doing things that you otherwise wouldn't?
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Too often Clinton has voiced a kind of pettiness -- calling Trump supporters "deplorables" for example -- that casts doubts on her claim to a higher calling.
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His characters share a deliberate sort of pettiness, not just a smallness of drive, but a smallness in the impotent, baffled way they greet obstacles.
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Pettiness is one of the driving forces of humans as a species, meaning that we're all petty as can be—yes, even you (ESPECIALLY YOU).
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Her treatment of criticism is a reflection of ego, pettiness, and insecurity—the opposite of what her music represents: empowerment, bossed up energy and confidence.
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Trump exhibited pettiness by skipping the recent funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush, reportedly because of disagreements has has had with the Bush family.
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But a residue of pettiness clung to those tales, with their self-contained world of school rules, whereas the outrage in "The Insult" is uncontainable.
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"I think people want us to rise above the pettiness, the smallness — they want us to be big, bold, ambitious for this country," O'Rourke said.
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Unfortunately, this is too optimistic for jackasses like myself whose vices and pettiness and lack of discipline seem to persist through any state of emergency.
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In his work with Iannucci, Armstrong skewered political machinations, exposing the extravagant pettiness behind so much government bureaucracy, from Downing Street to the White House.
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While some critics perceived Trump's fixation on the matter as egotistic pettiness, it's important to understand why Trump considered it a worthwhile political talking point.
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But quite a few other people have — and their rage-filled pettiness is a more important force in modern America than we like to think.
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Sources connected to the rappers tell TMZ ... Drizzy and Tory ended their years-long beef after mutual friends got in their ears about the pettiness.
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Notwithstanding the agony and hypocrisy of the nation's past and the cruelty and pettiness of its present, these truths endure, in the form of liberalism.
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When they discover Chichikov's doings, they cannot believe the pettiness of his motivation, and decide there must be some more profound reason for his activities.
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And centuries after her death, we see the academics who study her story make dirty jokes at her expense and snide remarks about her pettiness.
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Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild slights by putting an absurd amount of energy into plotting meaningless reprisals.
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Giuliani, an opera buff, has made his time on the public stage an endless aria of political pettiness, braying self-aggrandizement and ethical and personal turmoil.
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" O'Rourke, who recently jumped into the 2020 Democratic presidential race, brushed off the tweet as "pettiness" and said that voters are not interested in "personal attacks.
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Partisan politics, at the end of the day, isn't just about pettiness — it has vast life-or-death consequences for thousands or even millions of people.
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"Today's vote highlights the pettiness of last night's delay and the folly of articles of impeachment that allege no crime and establish no case," said Rep.
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The trouble is that, when you strip pettiness of cultural necessity and make it accessible up the ranks of the privileged, it risks becoming something monstrous.
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But now, in the hands of Mr. Salvini and Mr. Di Maio, this sentiment is reaching new heights, in terms of both political expedience and pettiness.
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Taylor Swift has spun pettiness into some pretty successful songs, and turned her 2017 album Reputation into a scavenger hunt for mentions of all her feuds.
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These are the sort of acts you and I perform daily, are they not, and in this circumstance resides a certain pettiness, but also a grandeur.
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The Darkness are ultimate piss-takers so obviously this is not an entirely serious song; the pettiness of it is almost certainly well known to the band.
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And therefore, I felt this episode would best be recapped by rounding up Robert's pettiest moments, because his anger toward Frances has his pettiness levels at 100.
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Speaking of the Bravo staple, Arie's subsequent verbal joust with Krystal smacks of pettiness in the same way any man's appearance on a Real Housewives reunion does.
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Lama Ali, a fashion design student in Virginia, couldn't resist letting her pettiness about that stressful reality make a subtle appearance in one of her final projects.
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" As for Mr. Trump's reaction, Mr. Brun added, "I thought the pettiness of the president's response, on a personal level, is indicative of how far we've sunk.
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The interrogation scene underlines a major theme in the "Fargo"-verse: That the greed and pettiness of humankind can result in a vast and unnecessary body count.
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"Bad Hopes is a collection of songs that are mostly about pettiness and shitty things that people say and do to each other," Dead Horse Beats told Noisey.
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Season 4 has been especially pointed about how the Valley's oversized population of nerds, bros, and opportunists has fostered a business culture where pettiness is rewarded, not scorned.
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So, we'll be seeing the contract murderess operating on both the animal instinct of someone who's just been stabbed and a potent mix of pettiness, heartache, and rage.
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"I'm very proud to stand in a room with people who speak out against gender inequality, sexual harassment, and the pettiness that has poisoned our politics," she said.
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It sees how, when competition is framed in terms of some morally redemptive arc, it can confer a moral authority on a system rife with corruption and pettiness.
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A celebrity can't just unfriend their ex on Facebook and pretend they no longer exist: Tabloids are ready to document and post-split pettiness that happens to unfold.
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Wade or deliberate misrepresentations of Kavanaugh's judicial opinions and other writings, Chairman Grassley, unruffled, let Democrats put their pettiness, meanness, and foolishness on display for 300 million Americans.
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Trump's continued belittling of McCain speaks to the president's pettiness and also his desire to remake the Republican Party in his image by casting aside all internal critics.
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As majority leader, Mr. Schumer would join a line whose most famous and accomplished alumnus was Lyndon B. Johnson, a man of legendary wiles, pettiness, grandeur and platitudery.
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It's a useful descriptor of a specific kind of pettiness, but maybe one that shouldn't be used so flagrantly by those well outside of its community of origin.
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Imagine the spiritual pettiness required for someone to send a mean letter to a pair of innocent Scottish pensioners, all in the name of criticising their grandson's accent.
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But perversely — Rick and Morty's adverb of choice — that pettiness makes the moments when the show allows them to show a sliver of vulnerability that much more effective.
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"I'm very proud to stand in the room with people who speak out against gender inequality, sexual harassment and the pettiness that has poisoned our politics," she said.
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Anne Hathaway clearly relished a little rule-breaking and pettiness in Ocean's 8, so why not enlist her as a feuding royal in a special episode from the novellas?
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But a student in Taiwan took her pettiness to an entirely new level, reporting an in-house yogurt thief to the local cops, and demanding they launch an investigation.
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Mitchell had kept that camera for 40 years before attempting to cash out, and the pettiness on the municipal side looked a lot like NASA eating its own young.
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"It's weird to think what we had the potential to accomplish and what ultimately derailed that was pettiness," Redick said on the "Pardon My Take" podcast on Barstool Sports.
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But Cersei only gives when it benefits her somehow, and immediately vetoes Margaery's wish to give the leftovers from the feast to the city's poor out of sheer pettiness.
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There's so much noise, so much hysteria, so much hatred, so much pettiness, so much falseness, so much intolerance, so much that's stomach turning — and all of it public!
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What but some profound sense of inadequacy could explain the neediness and the nastiness, the pout and the pettiness, the vanity and the vulgarity, the anger and the aggression?
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But that's how we're doing it and how we should be, and it's an important example of broader kinship winning out over narrower interests and of justice trumping pettiness.
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First, an even temperament, or what we might fashionably call emotional intelligence: Understanding yourself and keeping your demons under control so that power, pettiness and narcissistic impulses don't guide you.
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There's a "collective disappointment", Schroeder – who was a member of James Baker's staff during the first George H.W. Bush administration – says, about the overt negativity and pettiness of the campaign.
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The fact is, being childish pairs awfully well with the very stupid, very childish act of making art (what, you think you can sing?), so pettiness makes for great songs.
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And yet the correspondence we encounter in this book lacks the wickedness of gossip, the mean fun of auditing human pettiness and absurdity—so often a natural basis for intimacy.
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Amid all the vulgarity and pettiness, that is what is being fought over this month: going back to the past, veering into an ugly future, or finding a third way.
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And so, in what amounts to a philosophical vaudeville performed by Gary and Janice, we get sketches depicting the savagery of elites, the pettiness of proles, the foolishness of dreamers.
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But it explores that pettiness with such pinpoint exactitude that the links between casual everyday misogyny and the violence of a Harvey Weinstein or a mass shooter feel uncomfortably clear.
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There are a lot of different routes she could have taken in the midst of legal drama with Rob and accusations that her daughter is the result of her own pettiness.
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"We don't have an index for pettiness," explains Professor Jack Rakove, a Stanford University expert in the presidency and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his work on the US constitution.
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I believe that the ability to help others who are marginalized, disenfranchised and voiceless is an important pursuit, and I remain committed to the cause of Christ beyond pettiness and politics.
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" White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the invitation "still stands, and [Trump] encourages them to put aside their pettiness, stop the political grandstanding, show up and get to work.
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On top of that, he's given no sign that the pettiness will ever end, and if he carries this campaign into the general election, he's going to get buried in November.
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But even she isn't above pettiness, telling Steve he and Fran are doomed for meaningless reasons like Fran wanting Olivia Newton-John's "I Honestly Love You" for their first-dance song.
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An essential theme of "Fargo" in all its forms is that the accumulation of bodies is pointless and absurd, exposing pettiness and evil in the harsh light of the winter sun.
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Trump's pettiness was on full display during the Republican primary season when, in his lame attempts to be "humorous" at someone else's expense, he adopted insulting names for his political opponents.
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Clive Barker's The Scarlet Gospels, while a disappointing final chapter for the monster known as Pinhead, spent much of its time exploring the mundane pettiness involved in running Hell as an institution.
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On 2015's joint mixtape with Future, What a Time to Be Alive, the pettiness of Drake's gripes seemed glaring when paired with the grim realities of Future's life and romantic issues.
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They touched on his severe degree of pettiness in waiting outside all night in the cold for Jaime to show up, as well as his shudder-inducing stares throughout the entire episode.
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This fixation not only further damages his presidency by showcasing Trump's pettiness and narcissism, it also ties him up—it damages his political capital and distracts him from pushing his destructive policies.
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Or is he absorbing the scene and the people, reserving what he sees for his great purpose, part of that mysterious transformation that will elevate all this pettiness into something improbably noble?
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I write about the things that bother me, and one of the things that bothers me is how we're continually dehumanized by the minutia and the pettiness of the world around us.
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America needs a president who can rise above pettiness and anger, treat real allies with respect and who understands the needs of adversaries -- even while he may not agree or accept them.
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But what cannot be erased is the fact that for eight years our country had a president untouched by pettiness or scandal, who tried to make America a fairer, more generous place.
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But the pettiness of last week's brawl in D.C.—not just using a sledgehammer to squash a fly, but the desperate narrative backfill claiming that the fly was at fault—is instructive.
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"That's a goal I set out when I changed my name to BloodPop®, was to present songs with a more positive light and trying to shed pettiness and anger," he says.
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Those Israelis who do want Mr. Netanyahu gone — and yes, there are many — want him gone because of his personality, his coarsening of Israeli political discourse, his pettiness and, maybe, his corruption.
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"Alexis Ohanian showing up to the match between Serena & Maria Sharapova in a D.A.R.E. t-shirt is the type of solidarity in pettiness I need from my partner," a different fan wrote.
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"This proves that once again, even on our side, he's above all the pettiness that we see in politics today," said one longtime ally who has spoken to Biden in recent days.
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The vote for Brexit was in fact the moment Britain turned its back on the world, succumbing to pettiness, anti-immigrant bigotry, lying politicians, self-delusion and vapid promises of restored glory.
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Killip's photographs invite us to contemplate the destruction of a way of life and the persistence of a populace in the face of governmental indifference and the pettiness and hostility of politicians.
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This magical stream of pettiness was nearly dead on arrival when Negansbaseballbat replied with "quilt," a British epithet unfamiliar to me, which, according to Urban Dictionary, is analogous to "pansy" in the States.
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Photo: APWith its endless parade of corporate shills, industry flacks, cronies, and quacks, it's become clear that there are no acts of pettiness too shabby—or grifts too cheap—for Donald Trump's administration.
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Larsen's dry, matter-of-fact humor is detectable everywhere in her paintings, along an eye for the absurd, not to mention panic, stoicism, boredom, anger, annoyance, and pettiness — often in the same composition.
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"Chinese government authorities clearly hope to create a reality in which bureaucratic pettiness could significantly limit people's rights," Maya Wang, senior researcher for the non-profit NGO Human Rights Watch, wrote in December.
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All this busy-looking inaction and wild rot, the crushing executive pettiness and toothless bluster and whack-a-mole futility, is as familiar as it is strange, wherever in the world you are.
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The latest such bit of pettiness comes from the sharing company Airbnb, which enables users to "share" their homes or apartments with visitors, ostensibly at reduced rates relative to the native hospitality industry.
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Googlers may have special coding skills or may fit seamlessly in the company's Googley culture, but it's now plain that much of their discourse represents a special kind of pettiness, stupidity, and intolerance.
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Schumer and Leader Pelosi are refusing to come to the table and discuss urgent issues" and urged them to "put aside their pettiness, stop the political grandstanding, show up and get to work.
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And it's hard not to draw a link between the aggravated pettiness—if not outright Trump-esque trolling—of Tarantino's recent comments on race, and the vitriolic provocation that characterizes The Hateful Eight.
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The intensity of such moments has a humbling effect: We are released from the pettiness of our own brittle needs and awakened to the far more fragile project of caring for a baby.
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He lamented that a "mean pettiness has overtaken our politics" and said "we seem to be at each other's throats" before again revealing angst at his party's contempt for his instincts toward conciliation.
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It would also be good for all of us if lawmakers could transcend partisan pettiness long enough to reach agreements on pressing issues like health care, gun control, climate change, and immigration reform.
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With all the mockery lobbed in Petersen's direction this past week, I think the worst that can be said of him is that he failed to anticipate the pettiness of a senator scorned.
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From the ad:We've had enough of the lies, the sanctimony, the arrogance, the hatred, the pettiness, the fake news… we are done with your agenda to undermine voters' will and individual liberty in America.
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Donald Trump got two Razzies: One for his "performance" in Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9, and one for constantly choosing to work with his "self-perpetuating pettiness" on an international stage.
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As President Richard Nixon learned, this kind of worldview can ultimately consume a President whose paranoia, pettiness and anger can push him into unethical or illegal behavior in an effort to protect his hide.
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Look, we can all agree that pettiness against Gregg Williams is good and deserved, but kicking the Browns while they're down, especially when not engaged to head-to-head competition, just seems unnecessarily cruel.
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Most separations, even the peaceful ones, are deeply unpleasant, full of paperwork and pettiness and pain—but the first season of Divorce had a distinct brand of joylessness that made it difficult to stomach.
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What struck me most of all, however, was the smallness and pettiness of the evening, starting with Trump ignoring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's outstretched hand and ending with her tearing up the President's speech.
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If Trump can restrain himself during his State of the Union address and stick to his strategic vision, he can rise above the pettiness of an impeachment that is a substitute for policy negotiation.
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As someone who since has experienced a presidential campaign, I look back at that with a greater admiration for the unbending principle he showed against a current of political pettiness and crowds of dog whistles.
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But in addition to that, she has honed a talent — rare in Washington — for rising above pettiness, and she and her speechwriters have aced a nuanced, soulful alternative to common reproach and garden-variety rancor.
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" White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders responded by saying that the invitation is still open and that Trump "encourages them to put aside their pettiness, stop the political grandstanding, show up and get to work.
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The original quoted Tweet is invisible to me, which means I'm left to guess at the specific putrid pettiness or clownfish preening of the original text from the way that people are recoiling from it.
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My glasses aren't rose-colored and my recall is clear: The presidency was degraded plenty by his predecessors, more than a few of whom had their own stripes and streaks of rashness, pettiness and cupidity.
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"The stakes are simply too high to let the pettiness from 2016 bog down what's going to be one of the most significant voter mobilization efforts the country's ever seen to stop Donald Trump," he said.
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Amidst allegations of pettiness and tales of public relations coups, the report reveals how hard Facebook tried to remain in the good graces of politicians, even at the expense of the "transparency" and "community" it champions.
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On the contrary, my critique of Clinton's self-assessment is that it revealed a certain pettiness and was so devoid of leadership and accountability that it lays bare how she may have handled herself as president.
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The contrast—between the greatness of the singer and the pettiness of her comment, between the sublime and the trivial—reminds us not that she was human like the rest of us, but that she wasn't.
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But if there's a meaningful signal in this noise—and you can almost hear it, something about the pettiness of power and the insufficiency of politesse in answering older, ruder imperatives—it is buried pretty deep.
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"Bloomberg, if his opponents are really going after him knives out, he may be able to take a position of above the fray, presidential, I'm not going to engage in this pettiness," the Missouri professor said.
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This is the fatal mistake of conservatives who've decided the best way to deal with Trump's personality — the lying, narcissism, bullying, bigotry, crassness, name calling, ignorance, paranoia, incompetence and pettiness — is to pretend it doesn't matter.
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"The president's invitation to the Democrat leaders still stands and he encourages them to put aside their pettiness, stop the political grandstanding, show up and get to work," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
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But if we're going by Twitter reactions, Maria is clearly winning — her tweet blew up, with over 6,000 retweets and 16,000 likes at the time of writing, as other Twitter users hailed her the queen of pettiness.
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TMZ caught him in the irredeemable act, and to you, it might look like Ne-Yo's doing the crowd a favor by giving them the unexpected real thing, but all I see here is peak pettiness. SMFH.
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I think I'm like a lot of people where I scoffed initially, then had a few weeks where I thought he'd be good, and then got really turned off by the New Hampshire debates and his pettiness.
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Each new awful atrocity or pettiness by "Trumpo" (the really unfunny Marx brother) just cements the allegiance of those followers who jeer and give the finger and worse to anyone who doesn't agree with him, or them.
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Redick was a part of most of those squads ... and he revealed earlier this week that the downfall of it all was because of a level of pettiness similar to what he's seen from the White House.
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Figuring out the best way to communicate as friends so we can be the best parents for Q. and A. Since we both decided to be mature and cut the pettiness, it's been working out pretty well.
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His death in this week's episode is treated like a sad inevitability, as the inept schemes and crippling pettiness of a not-so-clever man lead to another needless fatality and open the door to still more.
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"It all comes down to personal vengeance and pettiness rather than constructive criticism," she said, adding that the Polish dispute could not have come at a worse time for the European Union, as it debates its future.
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Like a scene from a Deadpool comic book, writer-actor-singer Donald Glover's rare Twitter appearance to reveal a Deadpool script that no one asked for was a surprise laced with audacity and the perfect amount of pettiness.
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But one paragraph in the speech urging Nigerians not to fall back "on the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our country so long" was copied from Obama's victory speech after his election in November 2008.
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" Lewis went on to suggest that McCain voted no out of "pettiness," concluding, "The late Arizona senator's grievance with all things Trump was well known, but this obsession on the part of 'Never Trump' Republicans has to end.
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The problem that City and Liverpool have is that their rivalry — off the field — is all pettiness, closer to the pantomime squabbling of professional wrestling than the sporting test of strength of the golden age of boxing, say.
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A baby orca nearly beaches itself in what might be homage; the most charismatic people at a dinner party are shown up in their pettiness; and the smell of a summer meadow manifests in the oddest of places.
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BuzzFeed, a master of laundering black internet trends for bigger, whiter audiences, recently added pettiness to its emotional palette, compiling celebratory lists of petty memes and petty texts scraped from social media — often originally posted by black users.
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Engineered by a musician named Tony K, Views from the Throne places the words of Toronto's very own Euron Greyjoy (both of their arcs make no sense and are based on pettiness) atop Ramin Djawadi's imperious fantasy score.
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You get dragged into the gutter of nastiness and pettiness and shame and all of these things, and it sometimes seems healthier and wiser to just move on with your life and not allow yourself to be re-victimized.
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" It was a level of pettiness that ascended (or descended, perhaps) to the level of the intro of Cam'ron's Jay Z diss "You Gotta Love It," which accused Jay of, among other crimes against humanity, "rockin' sandals with jeans.
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Over a career spanning 50 years Onetti depicted Uruguay in short stories and novels as a place marked by pettiness, idiocy and squalor — a Gogolian province in the tropics — and populated by characters who are by and large unhinged.
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The antidote to what we see in politics today / Is not more meanness, pettiness, smallness, and hatred / It is treating one another with civility and decency / And staying focused on the big things / We want to accomplish together 3.
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But I think that's a really good aspect of a diary — your life is just written down and on paper, and sometimes you read it, and you're just appalled by your judgment or by your jealousy or your pettiness.
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Yes, she hit back, but unlike Trump she acted not out of personal pettiness but out of concern for our democratic system and, with her tailor-made put-down, she showed she was not infected by Trump's juvenile style.
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Award "winners" in the past include our very own president, who won two in 2019, one for his "worst acting" in Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9, and another for "worst screen combo" with his self-perpetuating pettiness.
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"The reality in which political decisions or presidential pettiness directs top U.S. diplomats' choices over whose human rights work is mentioned in the public sphere and whose is not is a really scary reality," Aro told Foreign Policy about the reversal.
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But Jordan's persona was pierced by societal criticisms — for gambling excesses and a refusal to speak out on social issues, which James has done — that went deeper than the pettiness surrounding James's decisions on where to play, and how he played.
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At the end of their final, magnificently sung duet, "Move On," about getting beyond the pettiness and obstacles of daily life, Mr. Gyllenhaal and Ms. Ashford shared the most rapt and embracing smiles I think I've ever seen on a stage.
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Trump's well-known pettiness has created mountains out of personal beefs—witness the recent banning of CNN reporter Jim Acosta from White House press briefings over an exhaustively dissected video of Acosta pulling a microphone away from a White House aide.
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If Drake's previous albums suggested emotional depths and sky-high pettiness that contained multitudes, Views is all surface-level texture—a pristine, gigantic lake on an airless day, one that exists in its essence whether you pay any mind to it or not.
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The impossible pettiness and poor judgment of the team's owners and their associates is to blame, or it's a warped team culture that fosters Harvey-style entitlement is to blame, or it's the haunted moor upon which CitiField is built is to blame.
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Ryan Smith, a senior government and economics teacher at Hueytown High School and a supporter of the president, maintains that "the pettiness of the press gets ridiculous," while also noting that Trump "could shut his mouth — he gives them a lot of fodder."
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Her sin play cycle, beginning with Cinephilia, her exploration of "lust," in which a Brooklyn couple stays up late debating movies and sex and also nearly clawing one other's eyes out, is a triumph of vulgarity and pettiness and prickly human emotions.
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Creating an environment in which aides feel pitted against one another -- and, in some instances, actually are pitted against one another -- breeds dissension, pettiness and altogether too much focus on who's up and who's down as opposed to what is getting done.
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If you took the basic traits people are drawn to in Drake's music—the murky sonics, the comfortable blend of rapping and singing, the intensely solipsistic emotional gravity—while siphoning out the personality and amplifying the pettiness, you would get Bryson Tiller, a.k.a.
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In his recent article, "Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are," Teddy Wayne argued that instead of easing payments between friends, payment and bill-splitting apps like Venmo (Divvy is another) encourage pettiness in people requesting payment.
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Tuesday's marathon brawl over the rules of the trial, extending well past midnight, offered a bracing glimpse of what he can look forward to in the coming days: pettiness, partisanship, preening, dissembling and enough outrage, faux and genuine, to unnerve a lesser man.
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While many in the national media are content to play the role of fight promoters, and many of our nation's permanent political class default to partisan pettiness, there is at least one place in Congress focused on results-oriented, bipartisan problem solving.
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His long history of trying to silence critics with lawsuits, his inability to let personal slights go, his pettiness: The nightmare scenario is that these would incline him to use the power of the presidency to forcibly silence his critics and opponents.
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I chatted with Holmes about the "overview effect," where people, when presented with a view of earth from afar, are much more likely to empathize with others and see the pettiness of so-called major issues in the face of viewing our little planet.
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But even before he was rubbing shoulders with one of the wealthiest athletes of all time, Bieber was no stranger to trouble of his own that included egging houses, DUI arrests, Instagram pettiness with his ex girlfriend Selena Gomez, and a bunch of assault charges.
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We immediately can tell this is a bad idea, especially based on Robert's history of pettiness, but seeing as the estranged couple cannot hear our screams at the TV screen, we have no choice but to continue watching this speeding train head toward a wreck.
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But ask yourself: Is a jock-turned-junkie something to celebrate, or do we need to cast our teenage pettiness aside and root for the people we once envied because we understand that high school was a weird time for everyone and people change?
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Overshadowing the talks will be the tension on Israel's border with Gaza, where Qatar has funded Palestinian reconstruction, and the pettiness of the Gulf Cooperation Council split — the Saudis are proposing to dig a canal that effectively will make the Qatari peninsula an island.
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In a classic but brilliant case of online pettiness, users of both Instagram and Twitter literally zoomed in on the facial expressions of three Black people behind Milano in what appears to be a shoe store, or perhaps the shoe section of a department store.
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Rather than complaining about ethics reforms, Mr. Heastie would serve New Yorkers better if he put aside such pettiness and showed that the Assembly will be serious about enacting measures that can transform Albany from a punch line into a model of good government. Gov.
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday that he'll only accept the G7's offer of millions of dollars to help fight Amazon wildfires if French President Emmanuel Macron retracts calling him a liar, as the dispute between the leaders reaches new levels of pettiness.
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They warn the President of the United States is not only unfit to be the most powerful man in the world, but is a venal mix of ignorance and ego, pettiness, malignancy and recklessness that is putting the republic and the world itself at risk.
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On black Twitter, a certain brand of pettiness — the kind that involves gleefully asserting yourself over the smallest points and meticulously cataloging and avenging the tiniest of slights — is celebrated as a virtue and a skill, the comedic equivalent of possessing strong attention to detail.
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My allegiance initially came not out of any particular affinity for the team, but out of pettiness—I resented the Royals for having knocked the Blue Jays out of contention and would have rooted for any other National League team that faced them in the Series.
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This anticipates the female operating system, which Apple wasn't the first to dream up: The 1886 sci-fi novel L'Ève Future envisions a female android, with her voice embodied by phonographs, constructed as the author's response to the outward beauty and spiritual pettiness of the female subject.
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The portrayal of Swift we get here isn't dramatically different from what we've seen in the public, and the film doesn't spend much time addressing some of the sharper criticisms aimed at Swift, like her tendency to play the victim or the pettiness of her public rivalries.
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Some people think that success is the best revenge; the real kick in the teeth for your enemies, they argue, is your "glow up," your unbothered ascension to a higher plane of being where you're not focused on pettiness because you're too focused on doing you.
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There is a slight problem, however: We will, of course, wait with baited breath for the results of Philly's investigation into some Twitter pettiness, but in the meantime, thank God for the NBA and the 76ers giving us something to talk about during the down time before the Finals.
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Trump and his self-perpetuating pettiness, Death of a Nation and Fahrenheit 11/9 RAZZIE REDEEMER AWARDPeter Farrelly — From The Three Stooges & Movie 43 to Oscar contender for Green BookMelissa McCarthy — For following up her dual Razzie winning appearances with her more complex role in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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Swamp creatures viciously nip at my ankles, and they come in many forms—the misguided and frenzied post-503 election takes, sex jokes that are simply TMI, unfair snap judgments of various public figures, tired memes and lazy jokes, vulnerable displays of pettiness; sarcastic asides that look psychotic out of context.
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While I think the idea that Blac Chyna is a gold digger who wanted nothing but fame and fortune from Rob is invalid, I can get behind the theory that their relationship was motivated by revenge and pettiness — and for what it's worth it, the revenge plot was executed flawlessly.
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But Drake's knack for turning specifics into naggingly memetic catchphrases (and rafter-shaking anthems, as on the unstoppable "Know Yourself") has never been more fine-tuned than it is here, and the persistent undercurrent of pettiness feels like him channeling the grievances of his city's long-ignored hip-hop community.
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However, Mr. Trump's aspersions against Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau (whom he called "very dishonest and weak" at June's G-7 summit), and foreign minister reveal a pettiness and a profound ignorance of how to treat a neighbor that has repeatedly demonstrated good will and support of the United States.
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Yet not only does it encourage pettiness, distilling the messiness of human experience down to a digitally precise data point, but by making it so easy to pay someone back for purchases as trifling as a coffee, the app arguably promotes the libertarian, every-user-for-himself ethos of Silicon Valley.
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Wohl made a good joke of this in her fine book for the underrated 2015 musical "Pretty Filthy," but she seems to lack what J. T. Rogers has too much of in "Oslo": the belief that we're capable of great love and inspiration in the midst of anger and pettiness.
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The House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy, now loudly bemoaning Democratic oversight as partisan pettiness, had a far different take in 2015, when he boasted that the Benghazi circus was part of "a strategy to fight and win": "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?" he told Sean Hannity of Fox News.
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But listen, it&aposs time to put those identity politics aside, put this pettiness aside, try to suppress this black/white divide that the left is trying to promulgate int his country, and sit down and have some meaningful, productive dialogue that can lead to some meaningful, productive change in this country.
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Typically, when an artist releases a song blatantly about an ex, particularly following a very public break up, we get broken-hearted ballads with high levels of pettiness that invoke listeners eyes to widen, lyrics to be tweeted, speculative hot takes to be written, and nostalgic late night text inducing deep thoughts.
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The actress Silvia Pinal, who plays one of the guests, suggested that Buñuel invented reality television when he made The Exterminating Angel, and it's hard not to see the film, with its savage and gleeful presentation of human pettiness, as a precursor to early reality shows like Real World and Big Brother.
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All of soccer's era-defining rivalries descend into pettiness: think Arsenal and Manchester United and the flying food fight at Old Trafford, or the schism between Barcelona and Real Madrid players that threatened, at one point, to derail Spain's international dominance, or, further back, Brian Clough and Don Revie exchanging barbs on television.
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Of course, when your political appeal is based around pandering and pettiness, xenophobia aimed at the American melting pot, thin skin for critics, and the cannibalizing of a low-information electorate, all in the guise of bucking convention and The Establishment, it's not hard to be more likeable in any other setting.
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The trajectory of the Republican primary has been one of growing pessimism, intensifying acrimony and abundant pettiness, and it reached its ugly nadir on the stage in North Charleston, S.C. This happened when Cruz was asked to respond to Trump's claim that he might not qualify as a "natural-born citizen" eligible for the presidency.
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The whole case is sad and depressing, from the astonishing pettiness of Barriss and his associates to the total lack of concern over the consequences of his actions — extending, it seems, even to his prison term: he has been in before and attempted to get online and continue his hoax habit even while incarcerated.
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Carlson has given himself over as material to a series of magazine profilers through the years—GQ and The New Yorker have done excellent jobs with him—and it's all been right there on the page, wherever he's been in his shifting career: the self-assurance, the pettiness, the inconsistencies, the indifference to the inconsistencies.
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The signifiers have changed—though a good butt will still get you very far—but far from transcending the pettiness of the girls' locker room as adults promised me I would, I have come to understand that popularity is a darkly powerful force at play in basically any endeavor that involves interacting with another human.
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"If Trump's team had been organized, effective, or putting the party and winning above pettiness, they would have immediately worked — after he became the Republican nominee — through a list of his opponent's supporters," explained Republican lawyer Charlie Spies, Romney's chief financial officer and counsel in 2008 before helping launch his super PAC in 2012.
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The people that they governed suffered greatly from the political reality that those personal failings created—Christie's historic unpopularity in New Jersey owes as much to his disastrous and petty misgovernance as it does to his own personal disastrousness and pettiness—but the truest tragedy of it is that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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"That this administration feels the need, nearly a decade later, to take potshots at an effort to identify common ground between the Arab world and the West speaks not only to the Trump administration's pettiness but also to its lack of a strategic vision for America's role in the region and its abdication of America's values," it said.
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That does fit her character, since Cassie makes an effort on her Instagram to rise above the pettiness than can happen on shows like The Bachelor (instances of the women being against each other is part of what makes being a fan of this show so difficult), which means that she definitely has a good head on her shoulders, too.
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"That this administration feels the need, nearly a decade later, to take potshots at an effort to identify common ground between the Arab world and the West speaks not only to the Trump administration's pettiness but also to its lack of a strategic vision for America's role in the region and its abdication of America's values," the group said in a statement.
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Barbra StreisandBarbara (Barbra) Joan StreisandBarbra Streisand calls for end to 'antiquated' Electoral College Trump's vindictive pettiness renders him incapable of taking the high road Ocasio-Cortez: If male politicians could get pregnant, there'd be as many Planned Parenthood clinics as post offices MORE is calling the Electoral College an "assault on our democratic principles," saying it's time for the institution to end.
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As President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE begins his second year in office, his pettiness, prevarication, casual racism and misogyny are clearer every day.
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" He writes that the job of the news media is to hold the president accountable, the job of activists is to resist policies they find objectionable, and the job of the president is to "set an example of calmness, decency and rationality — to rise above the pettiness and the vindictive shovel fights occurring in the darker corners of the internet.
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"I think it's important to at least call out the current incumbent of the White House on his simply amazing behavior, and for the pettiness, his vindictiveness and the unreconstituted meanness he displays," Weld was telling the crowd who had turned out to see him on a rainy Sunday afternoon in March at a house party in the town of Dover.
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From the obfuscatory slow-rolling of the injury to the retrospectively bizarre decision not to give him a MRI test after the mysterious debilitating arm pain—Syndergaard didn't want one, the team didn't insist—to the ambient pettiness and high-handed passive-aggressive weirdness around it, everything the Mets did and, more saliently, did not do, conspired to draw out the situation and make it worse.
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He has twice rejected this annual occasion where artists ranging from left-wing Barbra StreisandBarbara (Barbra) Joan StreisandTrump's vindictive pettiness renders him incapable of taking the high road Ocasio-Cortez: If male politicians could get pregnant, there'd be as many Planned Parenthood clinics as post offices Trio of causes brings famous songstresses to Capitol Hill MORE to right-wing Charlton Heston have been honored.
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But to dismiss all this as merely much ado about heels, or an example of the pettiness of our divided electorate, is to ignore the reality of the current conversation around the president — to pretend not to notice how sensitized everyone has become to his unpredictable reactions to major events, and to deny the power of the telling detail to invite applause, condemnation or misinterpretation.
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" John Randolph, a steadfast Republican but no lawyer, drafted the articles of impeachment against Chase, which broadly charged him with prostituting his high office to the low purpose of partisanship but, narrowly, rested on all manner of pettiness, including the charge that during Callender's trial Chase had used "unusual, rude, and contemptuous expressions toward the prisoner's counsel" and had engaged in "repeated and vexatious interruptions.
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Which didn't stop the Scottish National Party from recently blocking an opt-out scheme in Scotland for the utterly incredible reason that the motion had been proposed by a Labour MP. Such pettiness is not exclusive to any one political party, of course, but demonstrates why thinking about these things in the abstract, as part of an overall system, can sometimes help you to focus on the real argument.
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I also see a guy from X Factor boy band Union J who I went to sixth form with (known to 17-year-old me as Josh Cuthbert, now rebranded as "Joshy") but refuse to take a picture of him or look him in the eyes because he once posted a Facebook status about me and I won't let my pettiness and integrity within it slide—even for popstars.
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Give me Jason Kidd's vision; Steph Curry's shooting ability; 1994 Hakeem Olajuwon to protect the rim; Larry Bird's chin (he's gotten punched in the face several times and never gone down); 2010 Dwight Howard's shoulders, which are beautiful; Russell Westbrook's pettiness; Dirk Nowitzki's one-footed fadeaway (it's impossible to block); Tim Duncan's end-game demeanor (he just never gets flustered); Gary Payton's trash talking ability; and Reggie Miller's late-game heroics.
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It's here, maybe, that the Olympics comes closest to delivering on its promise to Bring Us All Together—in the futile and selective enforcement of doomed laws, in all the compromised functionaries of all the rotten ministries, in the fussing and rhetorical bloat of various podgy acronymic agencies, and especially in the destructive, all-consuming pettiness and raw, dick-swinging recklessness of the people in charge, we really do see the world.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), who officially announced his 2020 presidential bid Thursday, responded to President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's mocking of his hand movements by suggesting that voters are seeking "to rise above the pettiness" in political discourse.
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Trump & His Self Perpetuating Pettiness / Death of a Nation & Fahrenheit 11/9 Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or SequelDeath of a Nation (remake of Hillary's America…)Death WishHolmes & WatsonThe Meg (rip-off of Jaws)Robin Hood Worst DirectorEtan Cohen / Holmes & WatsonKevin Connolly / GottiJames Foley / Fifty Shades FreedBrian Henson / The Happytime MurdersThe Spierig Brothers (Michael and Peter) / Winchester Worst ScreenplayDeath of a Nation, Written by Dinesh D'Souza & Bruce SchooleyFifty Shades Freed, Screenplay by Niall Leonard, from the Novel by E.L. JamesGotti, Screenplay by Leo Rossi and Lem DobbsThe Happytime Murders, Screenplay by Todd Berger, Story by Berger and Dee Austin RobinsonWinchester, Written by Tom Vaughan and The Spierig Brothers
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Summery over the last few years, sparrows casting Quarter and eighth notes on the mulberry leaves, Someone in an empire waist Sunday cotton Strawberry pastel, shoeless, tulips, slate dust On the pads of her feet, oatmeal cooling, caking, Honey colored kitchen, buttons falling From my sleeves, everything is writing Feathers through the pillow linings, puffed up lungs, Voyager passing through our stellar cloud, robot Sleepwalkers/rock combers, sea-blue sky, Sky-blue sea, tide up, hand held technologies Coming soon to change us, rain counts up From one to twenty million pixels filling in The film we're in, maybe I'm rewriting the whole Thing right as I watch it, time won't release The sequel till it's ready, centripetal marketing Keeps the blips from passing through the firewall Of the future, birds in the storm drain wearing Our interiors out, hot in pettiness, sweeping image After image across the table, trees segmented Into emulsions of light and bark.
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