Übersetzung für 'pettiness' von Englisch nach Deutsch

pettiness

Kleinlichkeit {f}

Belanglosigkeit {f}

Geringfügigkeit {f}

Trivialität {f}

Unwichtigkeit {f}

Unbedeutendheit {f}

Kleinheit {f}

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pettiness [small-mindedness]

Engherzigkeit {f}

• Ian Johns of "The Times" "obsessed" over the similarities to "Curb", though singled out Crilly and Gardner for their performances, and described Dee's characterisation of Rick as "turning childish pettiness into something almost endearing".
• With pettiness and further dispute, they abandoned every reform and went back to the original scheme of appointing three chiefs to lead and govern them.
• A 1901 review in "The Academy" said that "Sister Carrie" was "absolutely free from the slightest trace of sentimentality or pettiness, and dominated everywhere by a serious and strenuous desire for truth."
• In particular, Trilussa has the ability to highlight people's pettiness and weaknesses through incisive and biting metaphors, often based on episodes involving domestic animals.
• In keeping with the variations in the tale type, a tale from Athens shows an abridged form of the story: it keeps the promises of the three sisters, the birth of the children with special traits (golden hair, golden ankle and a star on forehead), and the grandmother's pettiness, but it skips the quest for the items altogether and jumps directly from a casual encounter with the king during a hunt to the unveiling of truth during the king's banquet.

• In his memoirs he gave an unflattering portrait of Gordan, and described his pettiness and self-indulgence.
• After wandering for months or years and making do with what humanity has left behind, he encounters Kirsi (Elena Radonicich) and the two form a romantic relationship but Armin reproduces all the same pettiness that he had before humanity's disappearance.
• The novel focuses on the cruel pettiness of a small town country community as it is experienced by Vinny, Helen Striebel and English teacher Moller.
• Experimenting with the disease of pettiness, the novel itself finally comes down with a fatal case".
• After realizing the pettiness of the news station, Kent decides to return home.

• Part one is a satire of the Russian landed gentry, showing their coarseness and pettiness. Part two introduces the type of the "superfluous man" in the person of Beltov.
• Talia thus decides to look into the mysterious past but when she approaches the Delcourts she faces their pettiness, especially in her birth sister Mathilde, who nurses the worst intentions.
• He also teases the local blackout warden for his ridiculous pettiness when it comes to enforcing blackout restrictions.
• From the absurd antics of the TV writers' room to the even more absurd network board meetings, The Jesters reveals the key ingredients of what goes into making the people of Australia laugh: jealousy, pettiness, treachery, extreme stupidity.
• However, he became disillusioned by the pettiness and dissent of those he called "piss-pot socialists" and increasingly turned to a nascent Scottish nationalism as a means of achieving social justice and cultural revival.

• Second, the powerful presence of nature that simultaneously evokes awe and apprehension in the reader and dominates the characters’ will and highlights their pettiness; and, third the recurrence of extreme situations that blur the line between the characters’ humanity and their animalistic nature.