| 单词 | picayune |
| 例句 | I made the mistake of saying we were back to the picayune grind. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z These rules may seem picayune, but frequent fliers take them seriously. Perspective | On airplanes, personal space is a vanishing commodity 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Instead they shift their sentiments onto biographical subjects and labor to gather every last picayune fact about a life, as if in an act of penance. Calvin Tomkins Continues to Chronicle Artists 2011-10-04T20:34:15Z “I am so sorry to bother you with this picayune enquiry,” he closed, “but it is just conceivable that you may also be interested in the reply.” Review: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters in ‘The Man With the Golden Typewriter’ 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z His issues are largely of his own grandiose design but also fairly picayune. Review: In ‘The D Train,’ Jack Black and James Marsden in a Steamy Bromance 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But, however overwrought Anna’s sensibility sometimes is, Mrs. Lessing points such powerful significances therefrom that, in comparison, many other highly touted novels dealing with man’s acceptance — or defiance — of his fate seem picayune indeed. Review: ‘The Golden Notebook,’ by Doris Lessing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The concerns of the Chateau — and “The Château” — feel picayune by comparison. More Russian meddling: Paul Goldberg comic novel, ‘The Château’ 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z It may sound picayune but, in big organizations, such things matter. Can Paul Andrew Fix Ferragamo’s Fashion Problem? 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z It was never more than “picayune sloganeering,” sneered one millennial-flavored dude in the 10 o’clock hour. Circus of GOP talking heads: I spent my post-election day watching Fox News 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The assumption, in advanced circles, was that abstraction was wholly superior, raising large, lofty questions about the essence of painting instead of getting bogged down in the picayune details of postwar life. David Hockney, Contrarian, Shifts Perspectives 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z And one of the secretaries said, “Women lawyers,” and this is not an exact quote but, “they’re so paranoid about making mistakes that they’re incredibly picayune.” Tightrope-walking and “gender judo”: What women have to do to get ahead 2014-03-20T22:59:00Z Readers who pick up such books, drawn by their admiration for a writer’s work, are likely to find themselves distracted and disappointed by a welter of iffy theories and picayune data. Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z I mention them not to be picayune, but because writing about drug research is a delicate business, requiring a certain amount of control in one’s voice. Review: ‘A Really Good Day,’ Ayelet Waldman’s Better Living Through LSD 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The next-largest categories, and we think the most concerning, encompass election administration and absentee voting – often challenging mechanical, even picayune matters. "Chaos may be the point": Courts already overwhelmed with election lawsuits weeks ahead of midterms 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z When Jacobs tells a Kryptos message board he’s visiting the sculpture, the solvers have absurdly picayune requests. Review | What makes puzzles so alluring? A.J. Jacobs looks for clues. 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Marshall's confirmation was a giant step forward in Supreme Court and U.S. history, but along the way he faced Senate Judiciary Committee questions that were race-baiting, arrogant, irrelevant and picayune. Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearing is reminiscent of race and crime in Thurgood Marshall's 1967 hearing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The NFL’s picayune rule book is difficult enough to enforce without an inherently arbitrary judgment on what happens after a play. Analysis | The NFL’s taunting emphasis turned referees into hall monitors. It needs to go. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z It seems clear that the NFL’s intent is to be picayune in its enforcement at the beginning of the year in the hope that players will be “scared straight.” ‘It’s almost like we have to play football quietly’: Seahawks players skeptical of NFL’s taunting rule 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z They made it harder for the Navajo: County clerks refused to register them, knocked Native candidates off the ballot for made-up or picayune reasons, and printed ballots only in English. Crisis in the Navajo Nation: Voter suppression, racism and a deadly pandemic 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Members fail to do their homework, and embarrass us with their picayune questions. After this week’s hearing, Libra really might be in trouble 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Kesler contends that “most of Mr. Trump’s alleged transgressions,” when measured against the standards of the past, “seem picayune. They offend against the etiquette of modern liberalism and modern liberal governance, not the Constitution.” Perspective | Discarding norms is not always bad. But how you do it matters. 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Glasgow’s operation, housed in a run-down old shopping plaza and cluttered with the unruly archives of Mama Tina, Mr. Glasgow’s mother and co-missionary, can seem picayune. From Fighting Injustice to Facing Death Row: The Bizarre Case of Pastor Glasgow 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z More often than not, the police station fielded neighborhood disputes that were remarkable for their picayune character. The Case of the Purloined Poultry: How ISIS Prosecuted Petty Crime 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z He said the funding commitment was minimal, joining Goldman who said the $1.25 million represented a “picayune amount” when held up against the agency’s $1.8 billion operating budget. Board funds more Red Line service to Shady Grove, but Metro doesn’t know if system can handle it 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z No detail was too insignificant; no question too picayune for our scrutiny. Wait, what’s this about a royal wedding? 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z He’s so loathed that any passable Democrat with a picayune chance of toppling him was bound to draw more attention and inspire more hope than the political dynamics warranted. Opinion | Watch Out, Ted Cruz. Beto is Coming. 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Further to my rants, I'd like to add that there are a batch of people here claiming, "I'm a Democrat, but de Blasio is lousy for the following picayune reasons". De Blasio Coasts to Re-election, as Second-Term Challenges Await 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z In other words, to put aside whatever picayune differences might separate mere opponents of economic globalism from those who openly joke about pushing Jews into ovens, all in the name of reactionary solidarity. If this is a civil war, pick a side: Donald Trump, white nationalism and the future of America 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The picayune typo could have led some to interpret the communique as a U.S. policy reversal on some territory where sovereignty was disputed. Trump likes to be ‘unpredictable.’ That won’t work so well in diplomacy. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Duterte’s beef with the U.S. spans historical atrocities and picayune slights — such as being denied a visa to visit his college girlfriend. A Brief History of U.S.-Philippine Relations 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z By mutual agreement, the CIA was not supposed to access the Senate’s side of the network for any reason aside from picayune IT help. 'A constitutional crisis': the CIA turns on the Senate 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z "I'm a Democrat, but Hillary is lousy for the following picayune reasons". De Blasio Coasts to Re-election, as Second-Term Challenges Await 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Nor should picayune matters where there is almost zero chance of prevailing, such as the award of legal fees, be pursued to the ends of the possible legal terrain. Editorials from around Ohio 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Entire departments seem to spend their days coming up with picayune but expensive rules that cry out to be mocked. Of Trumpkins and Brexiteers 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z District Judge Richard Leon refused to approve the deal, writing in a February ruling that the penalty was picayune compared with the company’s admitted conduct. Corporate Prosecution Deals Headed for a Legal Test 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The image linked to Mr. Jefferson’s University looks like it’s from way back in our nation’s shameful history — a bloodied young African American man, thrown to the ground for a picayune alleged offense. Is U-Va. going Bravo Network on us? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z No detail escapes his notice, no matter how picayune. Redskins’ new outside linebackers coach Brian Baker is a teacher and a perfectionist One is that the police are enforcing too many picayune laws, and that practice led to Mr. Garner’s death. Two Fatal Police Encounters, but Just One Video 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z The story is likewise ignored in America by “news” media too busy handicapping the chances of Hillary Clinton’s grandchild in the 2054 midterms to bother with anything so picayune as a mass kidnapping. In U.S., there’s no room for compassion 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z So, my expectations in looking back at this gaming headset, released in 2011, are very high — technically picayune on performance and sound quality. Looking Back at The Razer Chimaera 5.1's Design, Performance and Sound 2013-03-21T20:51:01Z Dodd Frank is so sweeping in scope yet so picayune in application that it will be close to impossible for the public to tell whether it's making a difference. DealBook: In Obama's Second Term, Regulation Is Not Likely to Be Simplified 2012-11-14T17:00:38Z In movies, they're the rogue cop, exasperated by the infernal chief's picayune obsession with propriety. Bad To the Bone 2012-06-25T04:00:00Z A vicious legal battle between the city and advocates left even picayune details of shelter operation — the availability of milk-bottle warmers, for example — up to the courts. Ordinary Families, Cloaked in a Veil of Homelessness 2012-02-03T18:23:40Z See here, old woman, if you’ve got some little picayune payment to make, make it and clear out. Three Little Women A Story for Girls 2011-11-17T03:00:30.707Z To “dig his trenches” and save his health, For a picayune a day and find myself, Far away, far away, far away, From de cotton land of Dixie. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z No, too many picayune cares on my mind. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z For making you think it matters a picayune what I have to eat. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z Nearly two million page views were registered last September for the article “September 11 Attacks,” a typically Wikipedian effort with exhaustive, even picayune, details of the events, bolstered by nearly 289 footnotes. Link by Link: On Wikipedia, 9/11 Dissent Is Kept on the Fringe 2011-09-12T01:51:35Z The difference between "an extended period" and "at least through mid-2013" might seem a picayune matter to most people. The timidity of Ben Bernanke, explained 2011-08-27T15:01:00Z Why, we have men in Central America and South America who could make Murdock and Madison look like picayune persons if they came in competition with them in the matter of insurgency. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z He was good at picking such picayune locks; the concentration camp on the Isle of Pines was full of native fascists whose careers ended when Eduardo jimmied open the locks that protected their secrets. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z I don’t see from the samples of New York women sent us, that they are a picayune cleverer than ours are, but, if Mollie wants to go, she’s going. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z “He wanted to make this all about the Obama administration’s picayune rules rather than our error.” A Governor?s Blunt Talk Isn?t Always Straight 2011-03-10T02:00:18Z On turning down a wide street, I met three gentlemen, each of whom took a copy out of my hands and gave me a picayune in return. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z The small stuff, down to the most picayune detail, is the Old Guard's way of honoring the fallen. To join the Army's Old Guard, Iraq war veteran learns to sweat the small stuff 2010-05-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Kyriacou’s actions appear simply to be a failure to adjust to the culture of state government, which requires that the most picayune details about the use of public resources be accounted for and recorded. Ex-Head of State Agency Criticized for Misusing Employees 2010-04-28T03:33:00Z The charges against Mr. Espada range from the breathtaking to the picayune, linked together only by what appeared to be a sense of entitlement. Espada Will Be Remembered for Soundview and Sushi 2010-04-23T03:24:00Z After this, the hoards of the most notorious and hard-working pirates seem picayune, trifling, shabby, the small change of the age of buried treasure. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day By twelve o’clock my work for the day was finished; and I returned to the lodging-house with a dollar in picayune pieces—having made a hundred per cent on my capital. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z In a play, however, this method becomes monotonous, tiresome, picayune, fussy, overelaborate. Interpreters Nevertheless, he strode, and though it seemed impossible that a chap like himself could come to want, he finally reached his last "picayune," and at the same time owed the week's board and washing. Fairfax and His Pride "I've known many of those picayune islands where there was no safe anchorage at all." Doubloons—and the Girl Some de folks gives me de picayune—dat what us call a nickel, now, and some gives me two shillin's, what same as two-bits now. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 All but one “picayune” of it was required, for the payment of the score we had already run up. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z “I don’t care a picayune for either, but I will use one against the other.” Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America "Now," said the merchant, "I'll give you a picayune for the strops." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. I'll bet a picayune that if this company sees any service at all, it will not be mustered out with the same officers it has now. Rodney The Partisan Did he want to begin in a picayune, obscure way? Jennie Gerhardt A Novel It made much fun—the bride herself cut the first slice—hoping it might hold the picayune, and thus symbolize good fortune. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South It sounds at first like rather picayune saving but it counts up at the end of the year. One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America And to add to their rage, they knew that neither Lois nor Amzi cared a picayune whether peace was restored or not. Otherwise Phyllis "I don't care a picayune what he thinks," replied Rodney, his excitement increasing as the Governor's carriage began to circle around toward the front and center of the company. Rodney The Partisan And turning back to the low fire, Mose stirred the coals a little, poured the remains of Duke's "picayune o' molasses" into a tomato-can, and began his labor of love. Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales So many things had to go in it—the darning needle, thimble, picayune, ring, and button. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South I shall not proceed with the play for that picayune sum before me. Desert Dust This mystified me, but to object to the tent, of course, would have been picayune. The Prairie Mother And if you'll quit your place and take mine you'll get your coup de grâce in some picayune Indian fight and be forgotten. Waring's Peril And I gave you back two bits and a picayune, and—sir? Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana Just because you have written a picayune book on some picayune specialty, you pass for bein' educated in our half-civilized country. How Doth the Simple Spelling Bee They spoke little of the Fair Harbor or its picayune problems, and of the errand upon which they were going—the judge's will, its reading and its possible surprises—none at all. Fair Harbor Take no chances of marring your reputation by the picayune and unworthy endeavor "to get square" with a stingy or mean employer. Pushing to the Front Kind of stale and picayune, Steele, it strikes me," says I. " Shorty McCabe on the Job The creative energy that was in him had at last found an outlet which was congenial though somewhat picayune. The Blood of the Conquerors It did not matter a picayune to any one what became of him. The Triflers "That you would be a wicked fellow, marry a lovely woman, who wouldn't care a picayune for you, and live after you wished you were dead, I believe, or something to that import, wasn't it?" Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems But then, as Josephine reminds me, the fact that our David does not care a picayune for anything of the sort, robs my resolve of much of its solemnity. The Opinions of a Philosopher Must spend one picayune for one cheap dinner, or else must have one cheap coffin made for me at the expense of the corporation! The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans "You are an earth-worm," he retorted, forgetting his place wholly in his scorn for my picayune ideas. Olympian Nights I don't care a picayune for the doctor or the old lady. Bad Hugh He did not care a picayune for children, nor whether their feet touched the floor or not, and he had not intended pledging himself to build the house when he began. The Cromptons Few such picayune craft now venture outside the landlocked waters of Long Island Sound, or beyond the capes of the Delaware and Chesapeake. American Merchant Ships and Sailors Suddenly, a trembling hand was laid on Guly's arm, and a supplicating voice murmured humbly: "Un picayune, Monsieur; in pity, Monsieur, one picayune to buy me bread." The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans Oh," she cried aloud, impatiently, contemptuous of herself, "what picayune creatures human beings are! The Brimming Cup All that I had done was to walk along their sidewalk and gaze at their picayune waterfall. The Road I am a modest man—very—but I never lost a picayune by it in my life. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852 To these picayune points the breezy gentlemen make no reference. Walking-Stick Papers The brothers looked upon him for a moment in mute astonishment, until again startled by that squeaking, supplicating voice—"Un picayune, Monsieur—one picayune to buy me bread!" The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans I wouldn't give a picayune to own one of those castles, back there. The Second Violin Now the Des Moines is a picayune stream, unduly dignified by the appellation of "river." The Road His duties at the trust company began to seem picayune. True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office "What selfish egotists we are over our picayune vexations!" A Young Girl's Wooing Wouldn't give a picayune for the whole affair without her—that's what you mean, and why not say so? 'Lena Rivers "Tell the truth, now, for your life isn't worth a picayune." Frank on a Gun-Boat Frowenfeld, naturally, was not anxious to reply, and was greatly relieved to be touched on the elbow by a child with a picayune in one hand and a tumbler in the other. The Grandissimes "Well, be sure you do; your life isn't worth a picayune if you raise any row." Love under Fire Anna, every dollar we had, every picayune we could raise, grandma and I, even on our Mobile house and our few best jewels, is--is--" "Oh, what--what? Kincaid's Battery It is bad enough I'll admit, I hadn't any business to make fool love to her when I really didn't care a picayune. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth That is not patriotism, but a picayune partisanship which I profoundly pity. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 "The last picayune we have in the world--ha, ha, ha!" The Grandissimes Who would care a picayune in these degenerate days what Dr. Warburton said pro or con a book? The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac I give him a picayune, now and then; and you see he dresses well. Uncle Tom's Cabin Little newsboys, tiny grandees, infinitesimal sons of coachmen, picayune archdukes, honorableines, marquisettes, they are all pretty much alike under their skins. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories I'd like a fighting career well enough, but not picayune affairs out in India or Africa. The Sisters-In-Law "Well, then, send to buy a picayune's worth of something." The Grandissimes They smile a grim smile in their grizzled beards at the fuss which has been made over this "picayune war," as they call it. America To-day, Observations and Reflections "There's a picayune for you to buy candy with, Dodo," said Henrique; "go get some." Uncle Tom's Cabin "Yes," said Eddie, "and mamma will give us many a picayune, when we tell her what it's for." A Child's Anti-Slavery Book Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life. He hurled himself up-stairs as he had done seven years before, but again—"Ah, bah!!"—the door was locked, and not a picayune of rent due. Old Creole Days Faith in God came to be faith in "a microscopic and picayune Providence," governing the meanest detail of the elect's existence, and faith in man had no place in any scheme of life or thought. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time It seemed to him a picayune piece of business on the part of the authorities to detain it, and all for the paltry sum of two cents. Colonel Carter of Cartersville If we were only there, our chances wouldn't be worth a picayune. Uncle Tom's Cabin As I feel to-night, I don't care a picayune for stars or anything else relating to the cursed war. His Sombre Rivals By means of your story I can make her ashamed ever to indulge in those picayune, contemptible feminine traits which exasperate men. Miss Lou Here is necessary the great ability to take some picayune trifle, an insignificant, paltry little stroke, and then will result a dreadful truth, from which the reader, aghast, will forget that his mouth is agape. Yama: the pit "I can't go but a picayune this time," said Martin, when the pieces were arranged for the third game. The Lights and Shadows of Real Life "I bet a picayune you are my new brother, Robert," she said. A Daughter of the Land Now this Lane proposition is a little bit of a thing; it's picayune; I should live right along if I didn't get it. The Rise of Roscoe Paine Or do you mean to say that the conversation of two gentlemen upon delicate professional—and—er—domestic affairs—is to be broken upon by the blank profanity of low-bred hounds over their picayune gambling! Colonel Starbottle's Client I set my teeth and vow I just will dive from ten feet above the water, and every time it gets down to a poor, picayune dive off the lowest round of the ladder. Back Home "I jest reckon ye don't care a picayune whether ye strike anything or not," she said half admiringly. From Sand Hill to Pine You kant show the poor man he's ever took a picayune from. Snow-Bound at Eagle's Why should he bother about petty, picayune minds which could not understand this? The Financier, a novel |
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