| 单词 | bigness |
| 例句 | And yet, somehow, he did not give an impression of bigness. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It is probably true that all mountains are beautiful; there is something about them, the quality of bigness, of an ethereal joy to their size and scenic quality. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I could feel the bigness of it and the unknownness of it and a pent-up tension—whether of tears or anger, I couldn't tell. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Even those people who joy in numbers and are impressed with bigness are beginning to worry, gradually becoming aware that there must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His suppleness, combined with his bigness of frame, and his large, wide-set rather glowing eyes, heavy black hair, and markedly bronze complexion gave him some of the handsomeness of an Indian. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z That fall in the false warmth of a Brooklyn Indian summer, Katie sat on the stoop and held her sickly baby against the bigness which was another child soon to be born. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifted his feathers to scare her, but she was bigger, and bigness is boss in the peregrine’s world. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z "Andy's generosity to people and the bigness of his spirit are the things I will treasure the most about having known and worked with him," said Tait. WFMT's Andrew Karzas dies after cancer battle 2011-04-12T03:45:00Z Carroll isn’t just big in the little way that Beatrix Potter is big; his bigness is as universally agreed upon as the bigness of Mozart or Molière or Wayne Gretzky. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Life’s saving graces come in all sizes, with the small ones often accumulating and surprising us with their bigness when we least expect it. U2’s Music Shaped My Life. Then It Helped Save It. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Furthermore, their music has a certain questing grandeur and cultural weight that has people talking in terms of U2 and "next levels" and "bigness", all of which leaves the band feeling a little nonplussed. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z As a result, their pieces are swallowed up by the overall bigness of the theme park and, in effect, rebranded to fit the dark and spooky Meow Wolf mode. Paranormal Play in Denver From Meow Wolf 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z But much of tonight's set seems bogged down in its own bigness. Kings of Leon – review 2013-06-15T23:07:37Z He's big in every way, and there's the bigness in the confidence in himself. George Takei: Is "Star Trek" fandom over? 2010-08-05T01:01:00Z Seesawing between bigness and intimacy, the personal and the communal, it may tell you more about Canada’s identity crisis than it does about Canadian art. Art Review: ‘Oh, Canada’ Exhibition at Mass MoCA 2012-08-30T21:44:01Z "The bigness of it was so overwhelming and I just felt so much joy to get to be a part of movie history," she said. Anne Hathaway: Oscars criticism was 'tough' 2011-04-08T15:37:01Z Bloys might think that an emphasis on bigness — big budgets, big productions — is the wrong lesson to take from the success of “Thrones.” ‘Game of Thrones’ Changed TV. Let Us Count the Ways. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Childs credits Mr. Antonoff with “moving the radio toward him,” with songs that have a personal touch — and pretty much never a carefree attitude — but do not sacrifice any bigness in sound. You May Not Know Jack Antonoff. But You Probably Love His Music. 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z It’s a small record by big men with nothing to lose but bigness itself. Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z Still, you can't play a beautiful-but-damaged character with half your heart, and Hathaway jumps in with no fear, making us believe in the bigness of Maggie's soul and the depth of her wounds. "Love and Other Drugs": Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway get naked 2010-11-23T20:37:00Z But what struck me, watching these six episodes, is how poorly Carter’s politics are served by bigness, especially when compared to the other work being done on television in 2016. The truthers are out there now: “The X-Files” revival failed the show’s mysterious beauty 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z At 17,000 square feet, it “showcases the bigness of what I can do,” he said. For Detroit Artists, Almost Anything Goes 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The bigness invites you in, asks you to hear your way into the room where the album’s nine musicians convened. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Clark, I pull out all this clowning and bigness; my acting is broad but I try to be real. Q&A: Chevy Chase 2010-12-14T05:15:00Z At first, this bigness seems off-kilter, even distracting, perhaps because immensity in movies tends to serve visual spectacle. Review: Sully Landed the Plane. Then He Had to Endure the Spotlight. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The ship herself was thing of glorious bigness and frailty: imagining her might and grandeur as Henry VIII's flagship while contemplating her delicate timbers created a strange thrill of history recovered and power decayed. The Mary Rose museum has cast me adrift on a sea of 80s nostalgia 2013-05-30T16:00:01Z And the through line among the works is bigness: towering paintings, engulfing screens, walls covered not by one piece of faux bologna but by hundreds. Whitney Biennial 2017: Kamasi Washington collaboration is first among the big, the boundless and the beautiful 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z He approached artists with a certain “bigness,” he said, to match the passion of the teams, although most of the musicians he asked to participate were unfamiliar with the sport. Color Guard Is David Byrne's New Project. Yes, Color Guard. 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z This is a symphony, after all, that begs for overwhelming bigness. Beethoven, politics and a Ninth Symphony for all 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Because they talked about the banks, about the bigness of money, about the failure to create jobs. For Ry Cooder, a Dog’s Life and a Deal With the Devil 2012-08-24T17:43:15Z One is a small-government Jeffersonian perspective that abhors bigness and holds that prosperity flows from competition among independent businessmen, farmers and other producers. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Market Values 2012-05-25T15:43:15Z “This Is All I Got” is a testament to the bigness of the small story, to the power of intimate narratives to speak to something much larger. This Is What It’s Like to Be Homeless in New York City 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The last decade brought further examples – Snow Patrol's Final Straw, Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid – coming from different directions musically but each trading in a kind of soul-searching bigness. Who will make the next Great British Rock Album? 2011-07-14T21:00:02Z Instead, he appeared to be straining to articulate the bigness that the language implied. Review | Bill Callahan found domestic bliss. Then he wrote the great apocalypse ballad of 2019. 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The bigness of it makes literal the career it contains. Barbra Streisand Is Ready to Tell All. Pull Up a Seat. 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z That he did so on his own points out a key part of his message: bigness. A National Descent Into Trump’s Pants 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z In rapturous yet playful lines, she sings about her man: the bigness of his frame and smile; his head “full of big ideas”; his voice. Review: Police Violence Reaches Opera in ‘Blue’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z There were also backup singers, a violinist, a percussionist and a horn section — 17 musicians in all — and somehow the bigness of the output felt right. Music Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Izod Center 2012-04-04T10:27:12Z But Shyamalan spends so much of the movie trying to dazzle us with bigness and self-importance that he forgets to tell a good story. "The Last Airbender": Shyamalan's fantasy schlockfest 2010-07-01T00:31:00Z Bear witness to your life, to the bigness of your life. Author Jason Reynolds: Racism hasn’t changed ‘because we still haven’t talked about it’ 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Shall it be through countervailing power — that is, confronting bigness with bigness? Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z “Margaret” was not the only movie that tried to take account of that feeling of bigness, of mystery, that lurks within ordinary experience. Arts & Leisure: Film Favorites of A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in 2011 2011-12-14T13:13:18Z As a film director, Luhrmann is a poet of bigness, but his impulse to concoct an overwhelming canvas works against him here. Review: Baz Luhrmann's
The Get Down Misses Too Many Beats 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z “Mother!’s” astonishing bigness may not be immediately apparent. The Mythic Maximalism of Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z That’s still very much the case in “Ant-Man and the Wasp,” an engaging goof that resists bludgeoning you with bigness and instead settles for good vibes and jokes. Review: ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Save the World! With Jokes! 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z So while there are still nods to the Heartbreakers’ s 1980s bigness here, and to the bigness of others, they’re offered in an offhand style. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Sarah McLachlan, Devo and Tom Petty 2010-06-13T21:44:00Z There was no big bad in season four, and as a result Justified was freer to explore the bigness of the badness within the characters we already knew. Justified Watch: We Have Met the A-Hole, and He Is Us 2013-04-03T12:00:55Z But this was the quandary of every alternative breakout band born in the long shadow of Saint Kurt: You had to accept newfound bigness but find room within it to resist. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z The song was “Hostage,” written with Nick Valensi of the Strokes, and its message — feeling powerless to break free of a lover’s mistreatment — was a fine match for the expressive bigness of her voice. Music Review: A Big-Voiced Singer Takes Off In Several Directions at Once 2011-07-28T22:09:05Z For the collection has an interesting lesson about "bigness" — to have a life, the weight must be more figurative than literal, as what is more enormous than our eventual forever, the infinite postmortem. Ghosts soar in William Vollmann's hefty 'Last Stories' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z I’m not disappointed; I already get the bigness of Alaska’s mountain ranges. Before the summer rush, a spring road trip through Alaska is just as beautiful 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Feet planted squarely, hand on microphone, she anticipates the bigness of notes to come, then still sings them in such an overwhelming fashion that they appear to knock her off her center. Music Review: Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart Play Hammerstein 2010-08-04T21:37:00Z But this season’s blockbuster output has been curiously low on the summer’s stock in trade: bigness. A summer without swagger for Hollywood 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Opera is often assumed to be just about bigness. A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Something big will be gone, and being gone will be part of the bigness. Art: Marina Abramovic?s Silent Sitting at MoMA Reaches Finale 2010-05-30T22:22:00Z In 1962, Sylvia Plath wrote these lines: “I am a mountain now, among mountainy women / The doctors move among us as if our bigness / Frightened the mind.” Baby love: how pop stars embraced pregnancy 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z He offers the bigness without the joy, the adventure without the thrill. “Interstellar” Is a Flowery Greeting Card 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z An ardent but unfussy celebration for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s artistic director, it felt more than anything like a nod to the bigness of his ambition. Music Review: ?Wynton Marsalis at 50? at the Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-13T22:30:47Z So a large men's choir seemed like a great way to get that kind of bigness. "'Shia LaBeouf' Live," an oral history of the Internet's most bombastic meme on its anniversary 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “An engaging goof that resists bludgeoning you with bigness and instead settles for good vibes and jokes,” Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Lovecraft Country’ and the Billboard Music Awards 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Painting wasn’t dead to her and bigness and abstractness were not de rigueur. Deep Looking, With Vija Celmins 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The wonder of childhood is the opposite of the cozy vision of “Inside Out”—the sense of bigness, of a vast world remaining to be discovered. The Curse of the Pixar Universe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z And it aspires to bigness in many of the same ways. Review: In ‘Lempicka,’ Blond Ambition Is Set in a New Key 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The bigness of big food is a problem. Food for thought: will an era of hyper-personalized meals leave a sour taste? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z These may seem like technical problems, but in fact they spring from the book’s bedrock failure, which lies in its design, its desultory attempts at bigness, at significance. Maile Meloy’s ‘Do Not Become Alarmed’: This summer’s big literary novel? 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But I would rather speak of Anne Sexton’s bigness as a person than of her greatness as a poet. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z There was a bigness to it that I liked with some of the concepts they were taking on. Faithful to Two Worlds: The Marines and the Artistic Life 2010-12-19T22:58:16Z So, what do you do when you’re too big, in a world where bigness is cast not only as aesthetically objectionable, but also as a moral failing? The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Her smallness became a closeness which became a bigness. Perspective | Our biggest pop stars keep falling for lowercase letters (AND CAPS LOCK, TOO) 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z “You have the same” — she searched for the English word — “bigness to your face.” Mourning in Paris 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z She sang Stevie Wonder's "All In Love Is Fair" with a few huge notes, which were included just for the sake of their bigness. "American Idol" top 11, again: ranking the field 2011-03-25T17:37:36Z The bigness resides within the paintings, in the three-way tension involving panel size, the drawing of the linear motif and surface textures. Art In Review: CHUCK WEBSTER: ‘Paintings’ 2012-05-24T20:26:40Z Bay's only true ideology is that of spectacle for its own sake, of anxious, self-reinforcing bigness. "Transformers: Dark of the Moon": An American summer-movie masterwork 2011-06-28T21:01:00Z But at some point, that bigness is exactly what audiences came to predict from him. With ‘Dream Scenario,’ Nicolas Cage Reclaims the Memes 2023-11-05T04:00:00Z At the same time, it takes a particular kind of great-face bigness — the kind you see in silent movies — to get the points across. Review: ‘Judgment Day,’ an Allegory of Blame, Goes Big 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z But it wasn’t an unruly bigness, as in some better-known guitar-drum duos of recent vintage. Music Review: Banter Is Cheery, but Songs Are Not 2011-04-27T21:53:46Z In other contexts, and particularly from the mouths of wild-eyed go-getters, “epic” announces bigness for what’s personal and small: epic meltdown, epic sneeze, epic vacation. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Sometimes it is — her disparate threads sometimes feel like digressions and occasionally fail to cohere — but more often than not that bigness is a virtue. Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood? 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z But it also has to do with scale and sheer bigness. "Arthur": Russell Brand as Dudley Moore, from Mars 2011-04-08T01:01:00Z “Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock, these were figures that helped inspire me to not compromise in the commitment to the bigness of the audience’s experience,” Peele says. How the Universal Studios tram tour defined the modern theme park 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Jerome, who won an Emmy for “When They See Us,” plays to his apparent size with some exaggerated expressions, even as his soft features mitigate that bigness; his eyes are always asking questions. 'I'm a Virgo' review: A sweet coming-of-age comedy that hits on (literally) big ideas 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Jillani, the founder of the Pakistan Eats blog, said trying to re-create the bigness of Eid and its feasts was “exhausting.” 5 festive dishes for an easy Eid al-Fitr lunch 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The endearing sweetness of the early “Ant-Man” movies, which tapped Rudd’s ineffable charm, has been bigfooted into a noisy, smash-and-grab extravaganza that, for all its self-conscious bigness, feels smaller and less ambitious than its predecessors. Review | ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ goes big — and boring 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z But Chazelle drenches these moments in style, in music, in beautiful actors shrieking at the camera, in bigness; you watch not just for the story but for the immersion he creates. ‘Babylon’ review: Damien Chazelle’s latest takes excess to a new level 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z In all their bigness and brightness and variety, they serve as the season’s final salute to summer. Perspective | A gardener’s fall ritual: Swapping flower bulbs and dreaming of spring 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Another thing that feels particularly American: a belief in bigness, brashness, as if precision and structural intelligence weren’t also necessary artistic skills. Review: The biggest, most intricately ambitious little story you'll read this year 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z By the ’30s, “bigness became him,” but he knows he’s still on stilts. Review: Cary Grant takes acid. Fiction ensues 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Floats so long in his bigness and baldness that he comes to resemble a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon, though one on a really long tether. ‘Black Adam’ review: Dwayne Johnson’s superhero movie sinks like a rock 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z “Even when big gets bad, while antitrust is a powerful tool, the laws are not designed to address every problem we might associate with bigness,” he said in a speech this month. Markets Approve of U.K.’s Reversal of Tax Cuts 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z “I think this administration has focused on bigness as a problem not just in airlines, but Big Tech, agriculture — bigness across the board as a problem — and is looking to use these antitrust tools.” Biden administration challenges airline alliance as antitrust trial begins 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z But the bigness of the venue and broadness of the audience had the advantage of also stimulating vast quantities of adrenaline from the world’s greatest stars. Commentary: What the Hollywood Bowl's complicated history reveals about Los Angeles 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z But some analysts are not sure that airlines can easily reap the rewards of bigness through mergers. Bidding War for Spirit Could Undercut Power of Four Big Airlines 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z North Carolina-Duke, an 81-77 classic in which the players overcame the outrageous bigness of the game with impressive goodness down the stretch, featured two of the four winningest men’s programs ever. Yes, UNC-Duke was epic. No, it wasn’t the final scene of this movie. 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z The companies have also said the proposals — focused on their bigness — would hurt small businesses. Efforts to Rein In Big Tech May Be Running Out of Time 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “We must recognize that bigness in business does not necessarily mean badness,” declared Attorney General William French Smith. Opinion | Building a Better Meatpacking Industry 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Rather than focus attention, the bigness of the video and amplification seemed to accomplish just the opposite: inviting more distraction. Commentary: What the Hollywood Bowl's complicated history reveals about Los Angeles 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Tilson Thomas dug in, bringing out the bass, bringing out the mellowness of the horns and winds, but not asking for bigness. Review: Michael Tilson Thomas proves unstoppable in his second week with the L.A. Phil 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Eager to please his base, Biden mistakenly conflated bigness with boldness. Opinion | How Biden’s transformation ran aground 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z “If one really thinks about the bigness of it and its significance, it almost cripples you.” Frustrated by vaccine inequity, a South African lab rushes to replicate Moderna’s shot 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Yet our inability to escape Facebook’s personal data vacuum suggests its bigness is part of the problem. There’s no escape from Facebook, even if you don’t use it 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z This 40-year experiment with bigness isn’t over because Democrats could lose control of one or both houses of Congress next year — and lose the White House in 2024. Biden’s hope to tackle big business abuses faces big obstacles 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z A robust CCC would signal that new bigness and collective agency in our national posture. Civilian Climate Corps would be a win-win for climate and equity 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Maybe that’s because, despite aliens’ bigness in the grandest scheme, we’re looking at them from a cosmic distance — making everything about them seem much smaller. Opinion | Aliens might be the thing to finally unite us 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z They must now cooperate their way to a final product that doesn’t punish Big Tech for being big but rather ensures that it wields its bigness responsibly. Opinion | The plans need work, but it’s good Congress is finally bringing substance to the Big Tech debate 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z “But we’re not going to sacrifice the bigness and boldness in this bill.” White House infrastructure talks with Capito collapse, leading to fingerpointing as Biden shifts strategy 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z “But we’re not going to sacrifice the bigness and boldness in this bill. We will just pursue two paths, and at some point, they will join.” Biden ends infrastructure talks with Republicans, falling short of a deal 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z "She’s still a young kid who was playing against high school girls last year, so yeah, this is big. Nothing that I say is gonna change the bigness of it," Auriemma said. Bueckers, McDonald propel UConn and Arizona to Final Four 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z “She’s still a young kid who was playing against high school girls last year, so yeah, this is big. Nothing that I say is gonna change the bigness of it,” Auriemma said. Bueckers, McDonald propel UConn and Arizona to Final Four 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The current drift toward bigness began with a merger boom in the 1980s in corporate America that fattened profits for the dominant companies. Battling bigness: Congress eyes action against monopolies 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The current drift toward bigness began with a merger boom in the 1980s in corporate America that fattened profits for the dominant companies. Battling bigness: Congress eyes action against monopolies 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z So ingrained is this ideology of bigness that we routinely overlook evidence to the contrary. Perspective | Small pharmacies beat big chains at delivering vaccines. Don’t look so shocked. 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z We must learn to love their bigness, their inherent chaos, and admit how bereft we would be without them. We can rebuild American cities after COVID-19 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z There is a bigness to the sound of the quintet. Please, can we all listen to some Brahms and learn to get along 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z But hold on, some are saying, let’s not punish bigness for its own sake; better to look at each case individually. Battling bigness: Congress eyes action against monopolies 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z But hold on, some are saying, let’s not punish bigness for its own sake; better to look at each case individually. Battling bigness: Congress eyes action against monopolies 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Instead, it proposed the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. antitrust law in decades, a series of legislative proposals that could empower the government to battle bigness in the tech industry and prevent future problematic mergers. House investigation faults Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google for engaging in anti-competitive monopoly tactics 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Going massive with a work that contains similarly decorative aesthetic elements confers an importance associated with bigness. Six outdoor sculptures you might walk by without realizing they’re by famous artists 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Underneath the personal grievance you’ll find the same discomfort that Democrats are voicing with bigness — and the power it conveys. Opinion | Big tech has no friends in Washington 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z But the bigness problem, which includes competition-stifling market power and even systemic risks to the economy, is not confined to tech. Cyberbarons on the hot seat won’t solve the bigness problem 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Bigness is key to the blue whale’s diet, but bigness also adds to the whale’s overall energy budget. Why Are Blue Whales So Gigantic? 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z No matter how much his advisers and lawmakers nudge him to project unity and bigness, however, he keeps bingeing on the political equivalent of comfort food — convinced that it’s what his most loyal supporters crave. With Tweets, Videos and Rhetoric, Trump Pushes Anew to Divide Americans by Race 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Rather, his novels explored the ways in which small souls sought to cut their own safe path across the world’s unforgiving bigness. A great Hollywood novelist, nearly lost and rediscovered 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z But the very bigness of such questions is the opportunity for change that involves everyone. Can artists find a silver lining in the cloud of COVID-19? Peter Sellars is looking 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Facebook’s biggest liability is its bigness, and its biggest asset is … its bigness. Opinion | Facebook has so many problems, it really has none 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z I’m generally skeptical of the “big is bad” school of hipster antitrust, particularly if there’s no documented consumer harm from growing bigness. Opinion | Is it still art if big data is telling you what colors to use? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis termed this kind of concentration the “curse of bigness.” Opinion | ‘The curse of bigness’ spreads like a virus, thanks to big tech 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The ‘bigness’ Solomon is referring to all revolves around money. 'It's a start': Can the Aurora Games create a new model for women's sports? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z And that’s not actually productive, because it’s not just the bigness that is the problem. Q&A: Ex-Googler Harris on how tech ‘downgrades’ humans 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Smallness rules the imagination; bigness rules the high street. Starbucks v Dunkin': how capitalism gives us the illusion of choice | Richard Reeves 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Part of Big Jim’s bigness was his buoyant embrace of people of every color, nationality and creed. Opinion | A racist chant is not what patriotism looks like. This is. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z There is an unsettling bigness to Presidential politics right now. John Hickenlooper’s War on Socialism 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z And now the bigness is going to solve the mess? Big Tech’s problem is its lack of competition 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z So as far as O’Rourke is concerned, companies like Amazon do not suffer from “the curse of bigness.” Beto vs. Liz Warren 2020 Democratic Debate: at odds on breaking up tech giants like Amazon 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z The park would also include distinct areas broken up by the trees as well as areas designed for daily activities on a smaller scale than the bigness of the annual month-long festival. The mighty Mississippi defines Memphis 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z With the release of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to “break up” technology companies like Amazon and Google, fear of bigness is clearly on the rise. In “The Curse of Bigness” Tim Wu makes his case that big business ushered in the Nazis 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The big banks brought on the Great Recession — the best argument yet against bigness — yet they came out of the crisis even bigger. Don’t stop with tech in breaking up the giants — but making it happen is unlikely 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Along with bigness and elemental beauty, he credits it with crime-stopping powers: in particular, he says, it will stanch the flow of drugs that feed our country’s raging opioid habit. Trump Says That His Wall Will Stop Opioids—Two High-Profile Legal Cases Suggest That He’s Wrong 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z While it is understandable that Brandeis suspected there was a curse of bigness in the economy given the paucity of data available at the time, the same cannot be said in Wu’s case. Tim Wu's morality play: A review of "The Curse of Bigness" 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Despite his trustbuster image, Wu argues, Roosevelt had little problem with bigness itself. Review | A call to save democracy by battling monopolies 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z While many expressed concern about the bigness of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, there wasn’t a consensus on how to deal with them. The Week in Tech: Sundar Pichai Has a Chat With Congress 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z So perhaps the Microsoft lawsuit cleared a path, but the fundamental problem of bigness remains. Don’t stop with tech in breaking up the giants — but making it happen is unlikely 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But also that his bigness is relative to whatever he is being compared to. Meet Knickers, the giant cow that is neither a cow nor a giant 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Rather, recognizing the value of bigness is possible whether your primary concern is for the well-being of workers or economic productivity overall. Tim Wu's morality play: A review of "The Curse of Bigness" 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Riis thought of the bet with his friends, for which the meaning of bigness had not been defined. The Insect Apocalypse Is Here 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z This leads to a crucial further insight: that “bigness” – the domination of the economy and politics by giant firms – is a curse. We've settled on a shallow conception of democracy. And that's dangerous | Tim Wu 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z We need to figure out how the classic antidote to bigness — the antitrust and other antimonopoly laws — might be recovered and updated to address the specific challenges of our time. Opinion | Be Afraid of Economic ‘Bigness.’ Be Very Afraid. 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Thursday night it was one sound that integrated bigness, boldness, flexibility, power, precision, grace, finesse, flair and on and on. Review: Disney Hall's hidden corridors became a stage for dancers in Benjamin Millepied and L.A. Phil's 'Romeo and Juliet' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z But maybe bigness tips from a positive to a negative when a single firm takes over a whole market. Tim Wu's morality play: A review of "The Curse of Bigness" 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Once upon a time, American antitrust followed the “curse of bigness” doctrine coined by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. Amazon Is a Giant. But Bigness Isn’t a Crime 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Tim Wu, a Columbia law-school professor and the author of a forthcoming book inspired by Brandeis’s phrase, told me, “Today, no sector exemplifies more clearly the threat of bigness to democracy than Big Tech.” Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “It’s a bridge much further to say we should go back to the populist goal of leveling playing fields and checking ‘bigness.’ Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z “It’s a bridge much further to say we should go back to the populist goal of leveling playing fields and checking ‘bigness.’” Amazon antitrust critic has her own critics now 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z For many readers, the first thing that pops to mind when scanning the accompanying list of executive pay at golf's major associations will be the overall bigness of the bucks. Special Report: What People In Golf Earn - Golf Digest 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z “Fighting bigness and excessive concentration has been lost somewhere,” Timothy Wu, a Columbia law professor said. Amazon Is a Giant. But Bigness Isn’t a Crime 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The cult of growth leads to the curse of bigness: every day, a billion things were being posted to Facebook. Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “It is true that bigness is a curse and leads a company to become doddering and bad,” says Wu. It’s time to break up Facebook 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z This allowed for the triumph of consumer-based antitrust law, where regulators assess the merits of deals or bigness based largely on how they affect customers’ pocketbooks. It’s a record bull market, but most workers aren’t invited to the party. 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z It has been established as an unchallengeable status, to be too big to fail – charged with your failures, you simply insist upon your impossible bigness. Ignore Zuckerberg. With skill and imagination we can drive the haters offline | Zoe Williams 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Leon’s contention that the only way to battle bigness is with more bigness is not only an intentional misreading of-America’s rich body of antimonopoly law, it is a direct threat to American democracy. AT&T-Time Warner is Godzilla v Rodan: citizens will get squashed 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z But I do wonder if you are sensing a growing opposition in the public toward bigness, particularly in the telecom and the tech space. ‘I don’t think consumers are going to see any change at all,’ FCC chief Ajit Pai says of net neutrality repeal 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z “I think we’re in a time where we need to bring back the controls on bigness.” It’s time to break up Facebook 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Trump voters support a border wall and a ban on travelers from some Muslim-majority countries as part of their “mistrust of multinational bigness,” nothing more. Review | How to slice, dice and make nice with the Trump coalition 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z This was my first time attending Book Expo, and while the bigness of it all can be overwhelming, little moments like that made it seem like a book-loving small town. Lit Life: Finding small moments of connection at the enormous BookExpo 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Even if customers don’t pay more — or get locked into more onerous long-term contracts — bigness usually translates into a less dynamic economy. T-Mobile and Sprint: Don’t pop the champagne quite yet 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Until recently, bigness for its own sake was essential to Volkswagen’s identity. Volkswagen’s New C.E.O. Is an Outsider. That’s an Asset, and a Liability. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z And whether the modern unavoidability of bigness means we must be its inevitable victims. The FBI’s Parkland Fail 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z I loved the bigness, the boldness, the brashness. The time when America stopped being great 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z This was my first time attending Book Expo, and while the bigness of it all can be overwhelming, little moments of connection made it seem like a book-loving small town. Lit Life: Finding small moments of connection at the enormous BookExpo 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “There is a looming coalition of conservatives skeptical of liberal West Coast companies, and progressives who worry about bigness in any form,” said Darrell West, director of the Brookings Center for Technology Innovation. Facebook and Google’s enormous profits may buoy Wall Street. But it’s a different story in Washington. 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Does any other actor so fully embody the high-octane thrills, the colorful language, the sheer bigness of American movies? Q&A: Samuel Jackson on race, Trump and loving his job 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The sense of bigness in ‘Valerian’ is the basis for a lot of great science fiction These two shots serve no narrative purpose. Valerian is the ultimate argument in favor of CGI 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z By the time you’ve scraped yourself off the floor after all 149 minutes of the 3-D “The Last Knight,” you feel the need to compensate for the sheer gluttony of destruction, of unrelenting bigness. Review: In ‘The Last Knight,’ round 5 for the Transformers 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “Every decision is much harder than you’d normally make. . . . So you know, I really just see the bigness of it all.” Opinion | A deep dive into Trump’s elaborate fantasyland 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, appointed to the court in 1916, was a progressive era champion of federalism, attacking “the curse of bigness.” Federalism, explained: Is progressive federalism an oxymoron? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z The trees are so big that it would be cowardly not to deal with their bigness head on. In the Land of Giants 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z How bigness became an bipartisan cause on Capitol Hill. How Donald Trump Lost the Weekend 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z It is a world crying out for bigness, wisdom, steady hands and steady eyes. A World in Crisis, and No Genius in Sight 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z However, this is a big moment — the biggest moment in the series thus far — and I think all our key players on Team Targaryen deserve some points to recognize that bigness. The Game of Game of Thrones: it's time to let the grown women speak 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Rosen argues that “Brandeis’s opposition to the curse of bigness made him one of the greatest constitutional philosophers of the twentieth century.” Was Louis D. Brandeis ‘the Jewish Jefferson’? 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z But in person, their bigness still feels unexpected, revelatory. In the Land of Giants 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Dr. Milligan says he wants Gilead to remain a lean, focused drugmaker, and avoid the pitfalls of bigness, such as large committee meetings that go on far too long and interminable email chains. Gilead’s New CEO Faces Pressures on Hepatitis C Pills 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z But in a time of populist, elite-bashing rhetoric, his beliefs about the “curse of bigness” are even more topical. Citizen Brandeis 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But Mr. Robertson said that in addition to Potini’s physical size, what he found most intriguing was his bigness of character and integrity. ‘The Dark Horse’ chess film from New Zealand shines light on mental illness of Genesis Potini 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z It’s not entirely clear that the bigness of banks, per se, is the main problem. Breaking up the banks might make things worse. Instead, let's take ownership | Nathan Schneider 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z “Even the acting is not what you seen in low-budget indie films in terms of bigness and smallness.” Festival favorite 'The Arbalest' channels Wes Anderson, divides indie-film world 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Suspicion of bigness—in government and in business, especially banking—has been a venerable theme in American politics. Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z His real problem is simpler: both parties rather like some forms of bigness. Citizen Brandeis 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The barrier of bigness preventing human interstellar travel will be overcome by the enablement of smallness—the evolution of information processing and nanotechnology that will permit virtual exploration of other worlds. Oh the Places We Won't Go: Humans Will Settle Mars, and Nowhere Else [Excerpt] 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Perhaps the problem, then, is not bigness so much as badness. Breaking up the banks might make things worse. Instead, let's take ownership | Nathan Schneider 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The upside of American individualism has always been a suspicion of bigness, a resistance to monopoly, a preference for David over Goliath. We need a new trust-busting movement in America 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Lippmann and Croly would not have expected that hostility to bigness would still be around a hundred years later. Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z You have to generate some sense of bigness on your own; that’s an insufferable activity.” Jonathan Franzen interview: ‘There is no way to make myself not male' 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z “Knowing him, he wanted bigness, he wanted fullness, he wanted drama,” she said. New disc matches Elvis Presley with Royal Philharmonic 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z "Knowing him, he wanted bigness, he wanted fullness, he wanted drama," she said. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra takes on Elvis Presley's catalog 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z This means that bigness is a mirage, but it also means that smallness is a kind of illusion, too. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Brandeis, Urofsky writes, “made these arguments not as an economist but as a moralist and a democrat. . . . The curse of bigness adversely affected everyone and in every way, and therefore had to be fought.” Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Like then, nativist dismissal of inferior others still accompanies an exaggerated rhetoric of America’s bigness and irresistibility. GOP’s toxic white male bluster: Trump, Cruz and Christie bully to overcompensate 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z A: No, I'm not opposed to bigness per se—nor is the Government. Robert Kennedy Speaks His Mind in 1963 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z There was, and remains, a daring and a bigness to Mailer, derived from his preference for being knocked off balance instead of dug in. Mailer and Buckley’s Combative Camaraderie 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z High prices were part of the appeal, too, of the fight: in the absence of any enmity or camaraderie between the two principals, the bigness of the event became the main story line. Floyd Mayweather’s Longest Fight 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z But over the years Brandeis’s aversion to bigness seems to have trumped his friendliness to government. Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z From the combination of 2008 Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown and Our Josephina came Dortmund, and he has proved nimble for his bigness that by now, everyone watches. Dortmund is the big star of the Kentucky Derby 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Countless hours studying film and drawing up schemes, all this is done so when that big moment comes, it’s not about the bigness. A Coach's Keys to Getting Ready For The Super Bowl 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Little networks like LiveJournal exist, but they don’t grow into Facebook any more than beetles grow to the size of elephants—bigness requires a different metabolic principle. Users Love Ello, But What's The Business Model? 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Foer’s brief is that Amazon undercuts competitors so ruthlessly and squeezes suppliers so brutally — “in its pursuit of bigness” — that it has become “highly worrisome.” Amazon plays rough; so what? 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z In practice, though, the legal protection of the consumer is indifferent to bigness in business. Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Few actors are better known for their operatic bigness than Pacino. With 2 new films, Pacino keeps experimenting 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z In a world of snap judgments, big ideas are easier to notice, and their very bigness gives them an immediacy that smaller ideas lack. The Science Behind the Success of the Ice Bucket Challenge 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z I’m merely using the bigness of its universe as a leaping off point for this discussion. It Takes 5 Billion Years To Visit Each Planet In 'No Man's Sky' 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z They also require bigness, brashness and glitz: spa suites with private saunas and rain showers, trendy nightclubs, private butlers and on-site contemporary art consultants. Letter From France | The Paris Hotel Scene Gets a Glitzy New Player 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The Sherman Act is still the government’s main weapon against bigness. Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Beyond bigness, there is no compelling logic driving a merger of Time Warner and 21st Century Fox. In Modern Media Realm, Big Mergers Are a Bulwark Against Rivals 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z But the sheer bigness of big data can also represent a challenge. 2 Deals Focus on Big Data and Youth 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Another factor in this resurgence is a change of intellectual fashion toward bigness. The Case for Nationalism 2014-03-23T04:32:13Z Big numbers are big, and their bigness is hard to comprehend. A Different Pi for Pi Day 2014-03-14T11:30:15Z The act, as courts have interpreted it, does not prohibit bigness or even monopoly, per se. Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z While it’s hard to unambiguously define those things, we can at least get a rough sense of the contours of Big Data’s bigness. Interactive Graphic: How Big Is Big Data? 2014-03-06T21:50:32Z In an era when bigness has had value in itself, shaping museum and private collections, much of the art at the Jumex is small. A Mexican Showcase for Ambition 2014-02-19T23:14:19Z So we wondered about other New Yorkers, how they navigate the city daily, and whether for them bigness is a burden too. City Room: The Highs and Lows of City Life 2014-02-17T03:50:52Z Whatever the Soviet Union’s ideological failings, the ceremony reflected a view, clearly shared by Mr. Putin, that its sheer bigness — especially its unification of Russia’s multitude of ethnicities, should be admired. Russia Opens Sochi Games With Pageantry and Pride 2014-02-07T20:16:58Z Besides the Sherman Act, there is another long-standing weapon against bigness, unlovely and disorganized but probably more consequential. Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z But the tallest mayor in New York’s modern history is discovering that bigness can also be a burden, requiring a host of ergonomic adjustments and feats of stagecraft in City Hall. A Mayor Most Everybody Looks Up To, Even When He Slouches 2014-02-02T02:45:50Z “We want to convey that news and bigness.” Advertising: Super Bowl Ads to Help Start Busy Season 2014-01-24T01:30:20Z You have to do something about either the bigness, or the risk of failure. Libertarian populism: Bail-outs and safety nets 2013-08-12T17:18:17Z Any male that was larger than average to begin with, would then pass that trait onto its offspring, reinforcing the bigness advantage in the next generation. Kangaroos Know the Power of Big Biceps, Too 2013-07-30T16:20:27Z What opponents of economic bigness have always had in common is not so much party or ideology as location: the provinces. Why Big Business and Big Government Haunt America 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z As Becker put it, riches “change one’s natural situation from one of smallness, helplessness, finitude, to one of bigness, control, durability, importance.” Buying Your Way to Eternity 2013-06-05T09:45:22Z As Ernest Becker put it, riches “change one’s natural situation from one of smallness, helplessness, finitude, to one of bigness, control, durability, importance.” Pursuit of Immortality: Buying Your Way to Eternity 2013-06-05T11:05:27Z “But it’s now all about bigness, lifestyle and views.” Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market 2013-05-19T03:20:52Z To the extent that the demarcation line is adjusted for individual banks of different degrees of “bigness,” the end result might once again lead back to a ‘too big to fail’ problem. Is JPMorgan Too Big & Complex To Manage? 2013-03-21T15:06:56Z Yet it is still the undifferentiated bigness that prompts the teasing. Why Big Data Is Getting The Bully Treatment 2013-02-19T13:00:08Z Stan Greenberg, a veteran Democratic pollster, suggested that rather than play down the bigness of Obama the president, his party should embrace it. Obama campaign faces delicate balance at Democratic National Convention 2012-09-02T18:32:00Z NEON, then, truly does represent a shift by ecologists towards bigness. Terrestrial ecology: NEON light 2012-08-23T15:11:37Z I mean, even an iPad is just a beautifully put together piece of equipment, but certainly it doesn’t sell on bigness, right? Max Wolff on the Design of the Lincoln MKZ 2012-08-10T00:28:34Z It's also the centre of a small country that loves bigness, and prowess, and which appreciates the spectacular. Olympic torch route, day 9: Aberystwyth state of mind 2012-05-27T06:00:01Z "Now Granny, it's yerself knows me prayers won't keep them boys from growing, but it's hoping I am that the clothes will come with their bigness." The Misfit Christmas Puddings 2012-05-22T15:16:50.590Z The point of all this bigness is to get the reader to engage with your content, whatever it is. Large Type: One Web Designer Puts Content First in a Big Way 2012-05-20T06:37:57Z Instead of bread in the sacrament, I observed that they used wafers about the bigness and thickness of a sixpence. Curious Epitaphs 2012-04-26T02:00:22.397Z How shall we measure the strength and force of the human character other than by the bigness and the purity of the daily thoughts of the individual? Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Of course not, for I’m getting used to the bigness of the place and the noise no longer wears on me. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z His bigness, his masterfulness, his fearlessness, his daring had awakened in her a sense of awe. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z May we not strive for bigness but for fitness and may our reception of the Christ be our forgiveness and our salvation for His name's sake. The Optimist's Good Morning 2012-03-15T02:00:23.453Z Difficulty also not seldom occurs in women with normal pelves from an excessive size in the child through prolonged pregnancy, bigness of one or both parents, or the advanced age or multiparity of the mother. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z These showed not alone the vision but the breadth and bigness of the man. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z It was the pressure of the place, the bigness of it, and the roar all round me. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z It is a big thing indeed—as might be expected, where both Canada and the United States contribute to its bigness. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z Andy wondered what they would try her with to-morrow, and found himself sorry that he would not be there—to help her with his bigness and solidity. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z But all of this focus on bigness, to me, misses a truly interesting point: ESPN’s excellent execution for the small screen. Mobile First: How ESPN Delivers to the Best Available Screen 2012-01-30T15:41:53Z The city may contain three or four thousand persons, slaves included, all which make a town of reasonable bigness. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z “A large number of Americans have a general suspicion of bigness in the economic world — they equate bigness with power, monopoly.” Some Shoppers Rebel Against Giant Web Retailers 2012-01-15T20:34:03Z He had never before looked at the country except as real estate, never seen the plains, and a curious new sense of the bigness of the earth oppressed him. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z We reject mere physical bigness and mere strength. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The stress of her emotion added for the instant to the bigness and blueness of her eyes. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z I think this projection of Stratton's rage of reflections and observations and world-visions is in its vividness and humour and general bigness of attack, a most masterly thing to have done. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z All these stones are found in the River Tmolus; their texture is smooth and like that of pebbles; their figure broad, not round; and their bigness twice that of the common larger sort of pebbles. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z But as you gaze at the panorama of city lights spread out below some atrium sky-lobby, you can’t fail to recognize that their bigness goes with the century of the global megacity. ’Supertall’ Buildings Defy Cash Crunch, Ape Condoms, Scar Mecca 2011-11-01T17:16:12Z Execution will be crucial and bigness is no guarantee of success. The Newest Companies Coming Out Of Incubators: EdTech 2011-10-28T19:15:11.443Z Their bigness disturbs and their solemnity oppresses him. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z She fell very small; yet her soul rejoiced in its bigness. The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z For the first time, Tom understood what men mean when they speak of “the great wheat fields 46 of the West,” for the first time he realized the bigness of America. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z In every man's life there is one event that transcends all others in the bigness with which it bulks in his memory. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z And once more the sense of elemental bigness in his father came to him with vivid force. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z The teeth of the sea-lion are the bigness of a man's thumb: in Captain Sharp's time, some of the Buccaneers made dice of them. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z Anybody would think father was talking of ghosts, to see the bigness of your eyes. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z I am disposed to think that imaginative children, whose minds take in something of the bigness of the sea, are more susceptible of this variety of fear. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z And quite another when press secretary Jay Carney explained that “reasonableness and bigness walk down the street hand in hand.” Say what? Debt debate has all sides stretching for new metaphors _ and reaching too far 2011-07-31T13:06:02Z She had none of the sense of his essential bigness that Arthur had. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Not just the bigness of it - the volume of it - but also the diversity of it. Data dilemma 2011-07-27T23:02:31Z There is bigness and simplicity in their joys and sorrows and even in their sins. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z The great, big preacher looked at the small powders and then at his bigness, and said to himself: "I am so large I think I would better take two of them." The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z They are about the bigness ov an onion seed, and shine like a bran new shot. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z His father might be wholly wrong in his method of life, but that old sense of his father's bigness still dominated him. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z He then took from his bosom-pouch a neat ivory box, and out of it three ponderous lumps of stone, each about the bigness of a walnut. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z There is about Munken Vendt, for all his foolishness, a proud defiance of suffering, a noble pathos, a bigness and elevation of thought, which give his portrait a distinctive place in the Hamsun gallery. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z In Huntsman, Weaver saw another less doctrinaire candidate who could embody the same kind of bigness that had so captivated him in McCain. Magazine Preview: Huntsman Steps Into the Republican Vacuum 2011-06-21T00:54:10Z See; your flash of bigness is dying out. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z And with it came that old sense of bigness in his father. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z He had no kind of weapon in his hands, but a rosary of beads about the bigness of walnuts, and his credo beads appeared as large as ordinary ostrich-eggs. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z And for the sake of bigness let him go. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z He doesn’t enjoy anything close to McCain’s mythological presence, which means that if bigness is going to work for Huntsman, it’s probably only going to be because his rivals end up looking just that small. Magazine Preview: Huntsman Steps Into the Republican Vacuum 2011-06-21T00:54:10Z What had dazed them so—the bigness of the world? Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z On the contrary, there was sown in his mind a little germ of adventure which was to ripen later on, and he got exhilarating glimpses of the romance and bigness of life. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z This is all exacerbated by a perverse consequence of financial institution bigness. DealBook: As Wall St. Firms Grow, Their Reputations Are Dying 2011-04-26T20:35:10Z Among the stalagmites are a few of beehive shape; but there is one named the Jockey Cap, an extraordinary specimen for bigness. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z And then, Mary's voice rose gorgeous out of the bigness of sky and moonlight and water; it filled the whole empty world, without an effort. Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders 2011-04-09T02:00:09.887Z I believe," said the minister, generously, "that Reddy's competition is of a very honorable kind, and his presence here to-day is proof of his bigness of heart. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z I had seen nothing like this in New England, nor yet in Nova Scotia, for richness, for real magnificent bigness and beauty. Roger Davis, Loyalist 2011-02-17T03:00:22.690Z "Sylvia" is the greatest work that has come from the pen of this brilliant author, surpassing "The Jungle" both in the bigness of its theme and in its dramatic intensity. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z I longed to bring it away; but it was about the bigness of half an ordinary Dutch cheese, and weighed some five or six pounds. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z His bigness tells me of his great age. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Its lofty nave is bare of furnishings, which perhaps lends to its impression of bigness. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z The sun was in his tousled chestnut hair, turning it into gold, and the bigness and splendid beauty of his body thrilled her to sudden tears of joy that he was hers—hers. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z It may have been my mood, that night, but it seemed a drear and lonely land; the bigness of the North, its power, the implacable, elemental forces, had never taken definite form before. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Other trees do bear a fruit which they call Mameis, of the bigness of peaches. A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 2011-01-20T03:00:07.377Z And after inviting them to eat and make “their bigness” in the office camp, he went on into the lean-to. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z The man seemed very human for that moment; young, too, and in spite of his bigness, boyish. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Hollow leaved lavender is a plant that grows in the marshes, overgrown with moss, with one straight stalk about the bigness of an oat straw. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z Had he been of the bigness of a house and equipped with two pair of fists I would gladly have fought him after that one punch. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z There was another fish which sometimes the Indians brought us, of the bigness of a hog; they called it the pereo fish; it had rows of teeth beneath and above. A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 2011-01-20T03:00:07.377Z These oxen are of the bigness and color of our bulls, but their horns are not so great. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z "There is something in what you say," he answered, aroused by her bigness and strength. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Respect for quantity is accordingly something more than the childish joy and wonder at bigness; it is the fisherman’s joy in a big haul, the good uses of which he can take for granted. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z They do hold up the earbuds, but do nothing for their hard, round bigness. State of the Art: Battling the Earbud-Wearing Blues 2010-10-20T20:50:00Z The plums are of two kinds, red and gray, of the making and bigness of nuts, and have three or four stones in them. A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 2011-01-20T03:00:07.377Z Alan Shearer explained this week, conveying this concept of "bigness" through the image of a tiny acorn growing into a mighty oak via the medium of expressive modern dance. In England's hour of need, it must be time for the Big Man 2010-08-27T23:06:00Z Some said Ford's decision to relaunch the Explorer showed that the demand for bigness -- big homes, big cars, big meals -- has revived. Once-dominant Ford Explorer will relaunch with improved fuel efficiency 2010-07-22T04:00:00Z One philosophical strain involves a tendency towards skepticism about bigness. European Regulators Go After Google 2010-07-15T14:00:00Z We agree, and have consistently stated, that limiting bigness would have a far greater impact on American banks’ competitiveness and the vibrancy of domestic credit markets than would a raft of prudential regulatory initiatives. Another View: Punting Financial Reform 2010-06-02T13:00:00Z Indeed, they mostly seem to have eaten meat — they are sometimes described as “top carnivores” — and because of their bigness, probably needed more calories per day than we do. Kissing Cousins 2010-05-12T01:00:00Z They proposed that stricter capital requirements and hefty insurance premiums be imposed as a price for bigness. The End of Wall Street 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z Hummer had a different problem with bigness than Toyota has. Too Big to Succeed 2010-02-25T05:00:00Z For all vapours, when they begin to condense and coalesce into small parcels, become first of that bigness whereby such an azure is reflected, before they can constitute clouds of other colours. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. They are in bigness little inferior to an ordinary goose. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History They are plac'd at the two sides of the Head, and make a Semi-Circle of the bigness of the Ears, round the same Ears. The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. Remember that when a big man has an obsession it's in proportion to his bigness, and you'll have to admit that Glamorgan's a giant in his world. The Trail of Conflict And on the practical rather than on the theoretical, side there is wonder, and to my mind beauty, in the bigness and in the smallness of the spaces that man can deal with. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History If I didn’t know the bigness of a city he did and would have taken care.” Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch But mainly they are narratives, setting down simply and unpretentiously the impressions made upon European visitors by the bigness of dimensions and proportions and the abundance of natural products of all sorts. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Or if he did go into business, he wanted to have had a few years of college first, so that he might see things broadly and with a mind trained for bigness. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew If you set an apple kernel in the spring you shall find the root to grow to a pretty bigness in the summer and be not a whit bigger next spring. The Old English Herbals Out of the bigness of your heart you gave me of yourself, you taught me what life really was. The Bachelors A Novel The Parts of Bodies and their Interstices must not be less than of some definite bigness, to render them opake and colour'd. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light The town of Newport contains about six thousand souls, and is the most thriving, flourishing place in all America for its bigness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 He was therefore of the opinion that such kind of butterflies resting upon the walls had there shed such drops of the same size and bigness. Bee and Butterfly A Tale of Two Cousins One of their distinguishing designs is a very conventionalized cluster of four roses, the whole figure being about the bigness of a small hand. The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. Then the bigness of the great central thing at last came to me, and I recognized it. The Bachelors A Novel The bigness of the component parts of natural Bodies may be conjectured by their Colours. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light Somehow, in her awakening conception of the bigness and yet the simplicity of life, and of the part she wanted to play in it, the �sthetic arts seemed irrelevant. Thirty Paul was a big man, also, but he was short, and his bigness lay in his breadth. The Garden of Eden When I first came here the bigness of the hills frightened me, but now some of the best times I have are when I am walking over the hills and through the trees at night. The American Country Girl The sea comforts me, Meriel; the bigness of it, the beauty of it. What a Man Wills This is the reason why that Ring was of the same bigness in all the Colours, and why in a mixture of all it appears white. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light It was wonderful to see how the tears stood in the poor ghost’s eyes, how his jaws worked, and his throat swelled, as he swallowed mouthful after mouthful, the bigness of a big man’s fist. Seven Frozen Sailors The bigness of him, the strongness, the firm, dark face, the deep bass voice, the masculine presence after the long, monotonous months, with no companionship save that of two old women. A Question of Marriage There was that in his bigness, and in the very jollity with which he defied life and its pretended gravity, which opened all doors to him. Young Wallingford Brother Rhinoceros, thou art the next to me in bigness and strength, speak.” My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories For on a white Paper placed behind, it would paint Rings of the same Colour with those which were reflected, and of the bigness of their immediate Spaces. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light The lesson is quickly learned to honor commerce above farming, city speed above country thoroughness, superficial success above the homely virtues, and mere numbers, bigness, roar and hustle above the lasting joy of tested friendships. The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity The country is divided into twenty-nine counties, and the counties, as they are in bigness, into fewer or more parishes, as they are filled with inhabitants. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts There were no words for the bigness, the health and vitality of Stegner and the government bigwigs who had welcomed him here in South America. Of Stegner's Folly All, however, admired the bigness, and wondered at the height of the tower. My Dark Companions And Their Strange Stories And so the bigness of the parts of natural Bodies may be conjectured by their Colours, as shall be hereafter shewn. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light In the bigness of the lie is the gigantic quality of the liar. A Novelist on Novels It is commonly found by the sides of rivers and branches on small slender trees, scarce able to support themselves, about the bigness of the peach trees in England. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts The bigness of such a prospect took her breath away. The Head Girl at the Gables We can say that we are aware of a painful place, filling a certain bigness in our organism, or we can say that we are inwardly in a ‘state’ of pain. Essays in Radical Empiricism They depend on both Surfaces, and on the distances between them, because their bigness is varied by varying only that distance. Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light If the conductor be good, and of sufficient bigness, the fluid passes through it without hurting it. Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments They are of several sizes, between the bigness of a damson plum and a burgamot pear. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts As I walked through this valley I perceived it was strewed with diamonds, some of which were of a surprising bigness. Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women Anne was hysterical, poor soul: and “in view of this Observation, fell into an extasie before the Bench, and swell’d into a monstrous and vast bigness, screeching and crying out dolefully.” Witch Stories For in things economic there is far more dash and daring, and bigness of conception and rapidity of realization in Western business affairs than in those of the East. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making And he knew that somewhere out in that always increasing bigness lay the great camp for which they were bound. Dusty Star They delight much to feed on roasting ears; that is, the Indian corn, gathered green and milky, before it is grown to its full bigness, and roasted before the fire in the ear. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts "I think he would," replied Angela, little understanding the bigness of the heart of her father. The "Genius" There is nothing more to say; no, in the divine bigness of your nature don’t think you have to speak. The House of Fulfilment Farming is upon a bonanza basis, and the bigness of it all is reminiscent of the Dakotas, were it not for the majestic mountain skylines, blessed visual reliefs lacking altogether in the continental mid-regions. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making The intensity of the interest felt in Missouri was shown by the bigness of the vote, which aggregated 165,618. The Struggle for Missouri In these swamps and running streams, they have frogs of an incredible bigness, which are called bull frogs, from the roaring they make. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts He liked the bigness of his conception of his state and of his country. The "Genius" It was a ruby, the most beautiful I had22 ever seen, and about the bigness of a pigeon's egg. The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published Mangoes, on the other hand, attained a splendid bigness, many of them discoloured 199 on one side with a purplish hue which struck the note of autumn. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Generally it’s later, when a man has got used to the silence an’ the bigness an’ so on. The Coming of the Law The rich lands lie next the rivers and branches, and are stored with large oak, walnut, hickory, ash, beech, poplar, and many other sorts of timber, of surprising bigness. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts When the Northampton women were watched, a "little white thing about the bigness of a Cat" had appeared. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 And with its new bigness came an era of machinery and rush. The Crow's Nest For don't you see, sir, when once you've got hold o' the bigness o' things it's all one—flocks o' sheep and nations o' men? Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies In spite of the warnings put forth against thinking of mere bigness as great or fine, we must admit that size makes a very strong appeal to something in human nature. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life The seams they daub with clay or mud, and then pass over in these canoes, by two, three, or more at a time, according as they are in bigness. The History of Virginia, in Four Parts But the Squire's bigness and ruddiness were those of a man who took much exercise in the open air, the Rector's of a man physically indolent, who lived too much indoors, and lived too well. The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons Each pilgrim sings with a book in his grasp—a family Bible at the least for bigness; tomes so recklessly enormous that our second impulse is to laughter. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers You just finds 'em when you're alone among the hills and the bigness o' things comes over you. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies Perhaps the big is not necessarily grand, but the grand or sublime must be big or somehow suggest bigness. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life He accounts for the friendship between the Prince and Poins, from “their legs being both of a bigness;” and compares Justice Shallow to “a man made after supper of a cheese-paring.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature And, not to be outdone in bigness, he now advocated two fleet units. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time He is cerebral, as few before him, yet in this work the bigness of the design did not detract from the emotional quality. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Its bigness oppressed him, its variety confused him, its restlessness made him numb. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies That is one analysis of the esthetic effect of bigness. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life I call them trees for the bigness, but in truth they were just big weeds, and sappy to cut through like carrot. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) You remember when I first saw these plains and hills I told you the bigness frightened me a little when the sun brought it all out in detail. Mystery Ranch The town was ancient and compact—a domino of tiled houses and walled gardens, dwarfed by the disproportionate bigness of the church. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) But when things gets beyond a certain bigness you can't shut 'em in—not unless you first chops 'em up, and that spoils 'em. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies "I didn't think much of it," said Hutchinson, with the air of one who was wrong, and is quite delighted with his bigness in acknowledging it. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist You see, it was much of the same bigness; and it had the same quick light way with it; and then who else could have got in by the laboratory door? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) There's every human need to be met out there in all that bigness. Mystery Ranch A small four-footed person entered, the bigness of 325a baby’s muff and the whiteness of a marquis’s powdered wig. Aurora the Magnificent It’s a part of him–almost as if he had worked his own bigness and the kind of things he loves, into furniture and books and–fixings.” Chicken Little Jane on the Big John He is so conscious of his bigness, and makes chests at you like a pouter pigeon. A Diplomatic Adventure This was followed by a monstrous hissing and simmering as from a kettle of the bigness of St. Paul’s; and at the same time from every chink of door and window spurted an ill-smelling vapour. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) Out of the bigness of his heart–and then she had insulted him and accused him of robbing Death Valley Charley! Shadow Mountain Also, Sam's half-crown was docked from his wages; and Sam, after all, had never laid claim to any bigness of heart or philosophy of mind. Finn The Wolfhound The little group felt vaguely the bigness of things, though no one but the Captain knew exactly why. Chicken Little Jane on the Big John Nature, striving to cope with adverse environment sought to win the battle by producing bigness. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 There, when the yacht had been anchored, Millie sat gazing silently at the open sea whose bigness had so unexpectedly distressed her. Wild Oranges This tower, for its bigness and height, took my eyes the first moment, but the next they were attracted by the living figures in the court-yard. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire Oh, it isn't only the broomsedge, though that goes admirably with your hair—it's the bigness, the space, the simplicity. The Romance of a Plain Man They just magnify faults with the bigness of the hills around. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author The nobles justle one another to get nearest to the king's elbow, and wear gold chains of that weight and bigness as require no less strength to carry than they do wealth to purchase. In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts It is very impressive to see the quiet, optimistic calm with which they face the end, and the bigness of it. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone It was the day of our first impact with the novelty and bigness of Canada, and it was a trifle dizzying. Westward with the Prince of Wales Between its banks the Irrawaddy sweeps in splendid curves, producing an ever-growing sense of bigness and dignity. Burma Peeps at Many Lands Davis and his men went ashore under Mount Raleigh, where they saw four white bears of 'a monstrous bigness,' three of which they killed with their guns and boar-spears. Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas I saw a very big man, indicates that the man possessed much bigness, but makes no comparison with any other man or group of men. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses I threw myself into the lives of these men who were the living embodiments of all that bigness, boldness, punch that had so gripped and thrilled me. The Harbor London and a sense of bigness, of wide ideas and the constant interplay of many minds! Changing Winds A Novel We have been obsessed with the glamour of the bigness of the modern city and we are but beginning to seriously question its real efficiency. The Farmer and His Community This was the bog bean, growing on a stem a foot high, a silvery tuft of silky bloom hanging downward, two inches long and the bigness of a finger. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule These degrees are called positive, indicating possession of bigness; comparative, indicating possession of more bigness than some other man; superlative, indicating possession of more bigness than any other man. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses I remember being surprised at his talk, at the bigness and the intensity of this hunger of his for ships. The Harbor Lord, how I loved that man, as a child, in those days: his jollity and bigness and courage and 24 sea-clear eyes! The Cruise of the Shining Light His sheer bigness should have been still unspoiled; instead it was already beginning to lose its rebound; it was growing imperceptibly slack, like the springy stride of a colt put too soon to heavy harness. Once to Every Man She felt almost overpowered with the bigness of what the man’s words had shown her. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Standing back in the corner behind the door, facing Tom’s bigness and his inexorable strength, Mary Hope put on her Indian tanned, beaded buckskin gloves that were in the pockets of her coat. Rim o' the World And exulting in its bigness, the bold raw splattering bigness of my native Yankee land, "Now for some glory stories," I said. The Harbor The further we get from the scene of his life and work the more firmly are we, his countrymen, convinced of his sincerity, strength, wisdom, and bigness of heart. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 She was a master large gal, of her bigness, she weighed three hundred averdupoise, and a breakfast over. 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. The richness of the world was crowding on him, the bigness of it, the dangers. The Prisoner The loudness, the bigness, boisterousness, creaking boots and rattling oaths, of the young princes, appeared to have frightened the prim household of Windsor, and set all the tea-cups twittering on the tray. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges How small they were, these last ones, a coil of rope, two kegs of paint—the irony of it compared to the bigness of his life. The Harbor To my shame and regret I confess that it took me three years to recognize Jump’s bigness as an angler and his tenacity as a fighter. Tales of Fishes But far more than that, there was a sort of bigness about him. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Its bigness is no criterion of its goodness. Sandwiches She had a loud, gay voice like a boy's and as Maria was drawn into the commotion of greetings, she opened wide, half-intimidated eyes at the bigness and brownness of this Cousin Ruth. The Innocent Adventuress There was in the same chamber another bed of the like bigness, and it was into this bed the Ogre's wife put the seven little boys; after which she went to bed to her husband. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault They passed door after door, all leading to more and more empty rooms, till Lindsay began to grow almost dismayed at the bigness of their undertaking. The Manor House School She danced in secret before the Creator, she took off her clothes and danced in the pride of her bigness. The Rainbow They are 15 or 20 Fathom long, and much of a bigness from the Root, till within 5 or 6 Fathom of the end. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 His person gave an immediate impression of a polished but not over-polished gentleman—of a man who in acquiring a large grace of manner, has lost nothing of virility and bigness and purpose. Counsel for the Defense There are two kinds of grapes that the soil does yield naturally, the one is small and sour, of the ordinary bigness of ours in England; the other far greater and of himself luscious sweet. The White Doe The Fate of Virginia Dare The materials, the parts, the bigness, the shapes, the coaptation; and, in short, the whole structure, number, and way of applying the Instruments, that are made use off to free the Mines from Water? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World It isn’t merely its bigness, just as it isn’t altogether its freedom and its openness. The Prairie Child In spite of his bigness, his great burly figure and plain face, there was something very pleasant about him. Not Like Other Girls What a handsome dear he was, and how she loved the whole bigness of him! Rose O'Paradise "In her ears she had bracelets of pearls, hanging down to her middle, and these were of the bigness of good pease."—Voyage of Amadas and Barlowe. The White Doe The Fate of Virginia Dare Inches; the Ball, about the bigness of a somewhat large Walnut, and the Cavity of the Pipe by guess about an eight or ninth part of an inch Diameter. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World Little men they are, not half the bigness of the smallest baby you ever laid your two eyes on. The Irish Twins Making an Article Look Big A subtle method of conveying an idea of bigness is by placing numbers on odd-shaped cards or blocks, or on any blank white space. Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency The penalties imposed by bigness are for them peculiarly heavy. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition But always I return here; for the great church seems to carry my prayers away, and they are half lost in such bigness, and it is not so bright and so joyous as this. Prisoners of Poverty Abroad Touching the quantity of Light, by which the Earth is illuminated even in the Eclipses of the Sun, in proportion of their bigness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World Look at the grand clothes on him, and the scarf pin the bigness of a ha’penny piece, and the hat! The Irish Twins The nearest also chanced to be the largest—though in the flock there were individuals of different sizes, from the bigness of a large ox to that of a Newfoundland dog. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains An Opassom hath a head like a Swine,—a taile like a Rat, and is of the bigness of a Cat. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia And we don’t want to litter the place up with plates the bigness of cartwheels. The Magic World He added, that they struck one of a prodigious bigness, and by guess of above 100 foot long. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Order is that which makes, that all the parts of an Edifice have a convenient bigness, whether we consider them apart or with Relation to the whole. An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author In a matter of this kind—a moral movement—London is the hardest place in the kingdom to move, because its bigness and variety make it so many-sided. The Message The sun had already passed the zenith, the barbecue-fires were dying out, on the western sky-line rested a cloud in bigness like to a man's hand and of the blackness of night itself. The Doomsman Besides this, there are oftentimes found in the Mines round stones like Flints, of several bignesses, very like those Globes of Hair, which I have often seen in England, taken out of Oxes bellies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World She understood now what Virginia had meant by talking about the bigness of everything. Virginia of Elk Creek Valley This contains the Explication of the Catapulta, which was a Machine of War used by the Ancients to dart Javelins of an extraordinary bigness. An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author To realize the growing bigness of the land northward one has only to cross the wall from Iceberg Lake into the Belly River canyon. The Book of the National Parks But there was more than mere bigness with which to reckon. The Doomsman What are the kinds, length, bigness, and way of placing the Timber, Poles, &c. that are employed to support it? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World Big things were waiting him now, and his heart throbbed with their bigness as his regiment took its place. Winning the Wilderness This is double the bigness of the single, mentioned ch. xvi. n. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" For they make wine better then any in Spain: and they have grapes of such bigness that they may be compared to damsons, and in taste inferior to none. A History of Elizabethan Literature If it hadn’t been for you, what you did for me ... others ... new courage, example of bigness—Why! what’s the matter with you, Makimmon? Mountain Blood A Novel Whether they be all of one sort and bigness, or of differing? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World When I first went into one of the big New York hotels, the first impression was certainly its bigness. What I Saw in America The world had disappeared—hidden in its bigness; the world, indeed, was just at present a patty-dish. The Raid on the Termites But in this full view the impression of breadth and bigness of scale is combined with the impression of height. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Clayton stated that after the land was chopped fine, hills to set every plant in were raised to "about the bigness of a common Mole-hill...." Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" And particularly, what is the bigness and structure of the Aquaeducts, made in several places about Constantinople by Solyman the Magnificent? &c. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World “There’s something in its bigness that gets hold of one,” said Miss Schuyler. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter But Chesterton's taste for bigness has come to his service in criticism. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study No thoughts of the bigness of this country would have crept in upon them—except as they might have been reminded of the dreary distance from the glitter and 11 the tinsel of the East. 'Firebrand' Trevison He is a man with the bigness of the head! Flash-lights from the Seven Seas Great schools of herrings come in first; shads of a great bigness and the rockfish follow them. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia The bigness of him, the penetrating, kindly candor of his eyes, would paralyze base minds and violent hands seeking to do him an injury. Children of the Desert Prince," said the genie to him, "there is at the bottom of the sea a fish, the bigness of which is known only to Allah, and which every day comes to land. Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers Anna is nine and Val is six; but as for bigness—Anna is nearly as tall as I am, and Val is a good bit bigger than you.' My New Home There are times in a man's life when four walls are to small too hold the bigness of his thoughts. Vixen, Volume I. Yet nearly from the start Frohman perceived the bigness of vision and the profound understanding that lurked behind Fitch's almost superficial exterior. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man The smell of wood smoke; the cry of the sea-gulls; the bigness of God's beautiful world—only one more day of it all! Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light And when he went to claim his next dance with the social arbiter, he felt more of an equal with "bigness." Skinner's Dress Suit There wasn’t even bigness in it, from my side of the game. The Prairie Mother It was only his self-conscious bigness, of course, that made even inanimate things seem the feeders of his greatness. The House with the Green Shutters Versailles, in many respects, falls far short to-day of the ideal; its very bigness and bareness greatly detract from the value of the historic souvenir which has come down to us. Royal Palaces and Parks of France She did not appear so tall now, for he towered over her, the strength and bigness of his frame making hers seem all the frailer by contrast. The Fire People The bigness and the newness of the land have got you, Miss Burnaby. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters Oh, my dear, my dear, the one thing I was blind to was your bigness, was your goodness. The Prairie Mother Indeed," said Aquinas, "there's a curious want of bigness in the sketch—no large nobility of phrase. The House with the Green Shutters The Charter itself was a visualization of the Rhodes mind and it matched the Cape-to-Cairo project in bigness of vision. An African Adventure "And many more months that have the bigness of years will pass before we see it again." Heroes of the Middle West The French Oswald sat leaning against the precious keg, and perhaps the bigness and quietness of everything had really rendered him unconscious. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune The bigness of it!" he said, "if nothing more. Fernley House The gods had set the stage for epic action that night, and his spirit was big with desire for bigness. The Innocents A Story for Lovers On the place, as in the house itself, you get the sense of bigness and simplicity which were the keynotes of the Rhodes character. An African Adventure She had none of her father's bigness or bumptiousness. The Uncalled A Novel She seemed to Harley to admire his bigness, his openness of manner and speech, and his wholesome character. The Candidate A Political Romance Somewhere, that multiple bigness of Nothing, of life and death, of success and unfairness and surprise, must have reality—but not here... The Planet Strappers Aubrey described it as a delicate lodge of brick, not big, but very convenient for the bigness, a place to retire to from the Court in summer time, for contemplation. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Madame Bretton had come of fine peasant stock, and her brother had carried with him into the new land of which he had become a citizen his native loyalty and bigness of heart. The Story of Silk “And I don’t think it is owing to the difference in the bigness of the stones.” Rollo's Experiments The bigness of it, the wonder of it. Mufti Its bigness and dimness and silence filled his sensitive little soul with vague horror. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Would loaves of bread the “bigness of musket balls” be one-twelfth the size of ordinary loaves? Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide They seemed to come into their own that first day at market when the Ethel and May made her bigness in the dock at the city fish-house. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 “O, it depends upon the bigness of the pebble,” said Rollo. Rollo's Experiments Real pearls of the bigness of these would be very valuable. Mary, Mary But it is ridiculous to talk of bigness when it means only forty-two feet long, and when a sea is raging round you heavy enough to swamp a line-of-battle ship. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands I know—and it will bear repeating—no other profession that holds so much of bigness and of fullness of life generally. Opportunities in Engineering |
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