For several episodes, this group didn't focus on much more than their own very personal, often petty concerns.

What did such petty concerns matter?

"That supersedes any petty personal concerns."

Here, in the vast flatness of the Valeron Plains, nature held sway, dwarfing petty human concerns.

Trusting, or above such petty concerns.

He spoke as if he were not a man, with a contempt that dismissed petty human concerns.

Through them, Tuthill displayed a sort of amused contempt for the more petty concerns of ordinary urban life.

Not thinking that the divine spirit named Link was never motivated by such petty concerns.

A glance over his shoulder wiped such petty concerns out of his foggy brain.

It was only a little thing, taken all in all, and he felt obscurely that he ought to be rising above such petty concerns.