The woman voiced a great truth who said that the soul which can irradiate the numberless pettinesses of home management (and it is folly to deny that there are numberless pettinesses in it) is the soul "nourished elsewhere.
The woman voiced a great truth who said that the soul which can irradiate the numberless pettinesses of home management (and it is folly to deny that there ARE numberless pettinessesin it) is the soul "nourished elsewhere.
If love in its relation to sex be conceived in this manner, it will purify it by doing away with its pettinesses and it is just into these pettinessesthat the most honest and upright of matrimonial loves too often degenerate.
It is a mistake to imagine that our Lord merely repudiated the inane pettinesses of Pharisaic formalism.
Would that we all, in all conditions of life, kept truth and duty ever before us, as he did even amid the pettinesses of a Court--the solemn trifles of etiquette which would have stifled the nobleness of a less noble nature.
Voltaire's intimacy with the Great Frederick was destroyed it had for a while done honor to both of them; it had ended by betraying the pettinesses and the meannesses natural to the king as well as to the poet.
For the rest, no puerilities or pettinesses in the practice of devotion; government is learned better from studying men than from studying books.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pettinesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
