petty annoyances

Winter has more than its share of petty annoyances that people can do little or nothing about.

So he had kept silence under the petty annoyances and vexations of the king.

All these features help to make convalescence comfortable and free from petty annoyances.

It never amounted to much, a few petty annoyances.

But those flights had been necessary to avert such petty annoyances as being arrested.

Moscow, in the end, is worth the petty annoyances, and fall is an ideal time to visit.

One had to be flexible, to learn to tolerate the petty annoyances of one's underlings.

To the Editor: How do I deal with life's petty annoyances?

I grew impatient with her tendency to record so many petty annoyances in a querulous tone.

He treats life's great tragedies and petty annoyances with the melodrama of a movie star's funeral.

However, they were about to encounter a problem of such magnitude that these petty annoyances were promptly forgotten.

And of course help for all the petty annoyances of life-ah, real life-was at hand.

There were other petty annoyances, too.

It cannot be these petty annoyances.

The petty annoyances of the household.

It also reduces petty annoyances: No need to fumble with cash, drive a precise distance from the collection window or wait for a receipt.

Of course, another answer would simply be to put up with the slow speeds and petty annoyances of a dial-in modem.

But that day had held a long series of petty annoyances; and here was a really important thing kept from them as if they were mere outsiders.

I had been subjected night and morning to this continuous stream of petty annoyances, and my temper was wearing thin.

The dreamer of ants should expect many petty annoyances during the day; chasing little worries, and finding general dissatisfaction in all things.

To look for a janitor and fail to find him, petty annoyances will disturb your otherwise placid existence.

Ling is concerned with petty annoyances that disrupt her pleasure or inconvenience her.

As she talked she managed to pull herself back from a chasm of grief and got lost in a series of petty annoyances.

"A human being should not stop acting like a human being just because some petty annoyances enter his daily life," Chiun said.

Worse was the constant petty annoyances, the lost tools, the misplaced personal effects, the wrong turns, the misremembering, the misjudgments.