pettifoggery

1 The hand responds to the heart, the pettifoggery is expressive, is in the folk art essence.

心手相应，刀笔传神，为民间艺术中的精华。

2 Not without cause, though: She also uses words like “pettifoggery” in her articles.

3 Sixty-seven years ago, the Supreme Court unanimously cut through decades’ worth of segregationist pettifoggery with a simple declaratory sentence: “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

4 Surely, therefore, his lawyers will not engage in frivolous arguments, obfuscation, pettifoggery or dilatory tactics that would complicate uncovering the truth, right?

5 All of that to my mind is serving his interests, when we get trapped in these kinds of debates about pettifoggery or meta-pettifoggery.

6 Mitchell characterized the Guantanamo war court hearings as “pettifoggery, an over-emphasis on petty details.”

7 The world’s greatest deliberative body falls to pettifoggery.

8 Now, the world’s greatest deliberative body has devolved into a palace of pettifoggery.

9 He was a Silva—for the "de" was acquired from the king after much pettifoggery on the part of that monarch with the prognathic jaw—and he was of Portuguese blood.

10 Do you take for philosophy this twaddle, this intolerable pettifoggery adorned with a few scholastic trimmings?

11 Both are friends of the oppressed and haters of pedantry and pettifoggery.

12 Amid his atmosphere of pettifoggery, this rudimentary scholar, waging battle on life's acerbities, certainly paid no attention to the insect; at most, if he met it, he would crush it under foot.

13 For nearly three years now, I’ve been fascinated by the performance art of this blustering pettifogger.

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