If you go out shopping every time he would hold your hand, do not think his small-minded negotiations.
After all the guests had left, Mrs. Chang said, "That Fang fellow isn't suitable. He's too small-minded and values money too highly. He showed his true colors the moment I tested him."
It would be miraculous if the army's intervention shocked the country's battling small-minded politicians into a new and urgent policy of building dykes and embankments against the rising seas.
I know you'll never forgive me. And I don't blame you. I wouldn't forgive me either. I was ignorant and irresponsible and small-minded. But predators shouldn't suffer because of my mistakes. 我知道，你永遠都不會原諒我。我不怪你，換做我，我也不會原諒我自己。我又蠢又不可靠，還固執得不得了。但是，不能因為我的錯，讓肉食動物遭受這一切。
It strikes me as a negative, destructive emotion, usually possessed by small-minded individuals who see economics as a zero-sum equation.
Britten, according to the prevalent view, was a small-minded, provincial music maker, concerned chiefly with his own advancement.
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