| 单词 | unimportance |
| 例句 | But that didn't stop him from weighing on their unimportance and the character of their caretakers. 5 Popes who formed a holy bond with their animal companions, from cats and dogs to even an elephant 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z “We were striving to achieve ideas about responsibility, about unconditional love, about the unimportance of appearance and communicating on a deeper level.” Melissa Mathison, ‘E.T.’ Screenwriter, Dies at 65 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Director Scott Cooper has spoken about the relative unimportance of hard facts for the average cinema-going audience. Scott Cooper: people don't go to the movies for facts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Other Chargers have playoff experience with other teams, but Van Noy doesn’t have to look far for an illustration of his belief in the unimportance of playoff experience. Chargers say inexperience doesn’t matter in playoff return 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z “We had to learn how to manage our unimportance. And I know it sounds a bit corny and funny, but our people had to do that for 75 years, he said. “We still do.” Tiny Vanuatu Uses Its ‘Unimportance’ to Launch Big Climate Ideas 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z And as the line between business and leisure blurs into so-called bleisure travel, off-site organizers are recognizing the relative unimportance of traditional meetings and schedules. How company off-sites are changing business travel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Whatever they say about the unimportance of Washington, they know perfectly well where the power is. From our archives: Todd Gitlin on "Back to the civil rights barricades" after the Bush-Gore election 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The perceived unimportance of broadcast television creates opportunity of a sort; in reversal of historical trends, the older platform provides the alternative — family entertainments, more or less, stretched over long seasons. Three new sitcoms worth your time — and one that needs time to grow 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Realizing the unimportance of practically everything, and letting the small stuff roll off your shoulders, is totally liberating. Opinion | ‘Be Kind Whenever Possible. It Is Always Possible.’ 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z By writing about an infectious disease, Camus was emphasizing the relative unimportance, to him, of the motivations of the evil thing. Albert Camus' 'The Plague' and our own Great Reset 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z But doing so while simultaneously reducing their value would only serve to reinforce the relative unimportance of many regular season games. The NBA is considering its own FA Cup. The results may not be pretty 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z And business in the Commons today will be of magnificent unimportance. Brexit: Boris Johnson claims EU has not explained in detail why it objects to his alternative backstop plan - live news 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Hays’ catch — and his enthusiasm in making it — belied the unimportance of a matchup between two teams that long ago dropped out of contention in the AL East. Hays robs Guerrero, Jays sweep Orioles with 8-4 victory 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z My code: “You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.” Opinion | ‘Be Kind Whenever Possible. It Is Always Possible.’ 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Hays’ catch - and the rookie’s enthusiasm in making it - belied the unimportance of a matchup between two teams that long ago dropped out of contention in the AL East. Hays robs Guerrero, Jays sweep Orioles with 8-4 victory 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Hays’ catch — and the rookie’s enthusiasm in making it — belied the unimportance of a matchup between two teams that long ago dropped out of contention in the AL East. Hays robs Guerrero, Jays sweep Orioles with 8-4 victory 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In Steinʼs oblique telling of her story of unacceptable loss, she achieves an extraordinary level of expressiveness; the refrain about the motherʼs unimportance has the effect, of course, of implying the opposite. Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and “The Making of Americans” 2005-06-06T04:00:00Z To not mention slavery is in itself a statement — of disinterest, of unimportance, of lesser importance, of something . Opinion | The hole at the heart of ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z If anything, the small number of affected users and relative unimportance of Google+ suggests it won’t. The breach that killed Google+ wasn’t a breach at all 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Noah then spoke about the unimportance of its quality. Stephen Colbert on FBI's Kavanaugh inquiry: 'The report is lacking in report' 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z As New York Times columnist Ross Douthat observed, “the Catholic bishops are now somewhat protected from media scrutiny by virtue of their increasing unimportance.” Opinion | The Catholic Church has obliterated its ability to inspire trust 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z If I sound worked up about a topic of shattering unimportance, it’s because repeated exposure to social media has made be an impulsive rage-monster, duh. In this joyous season, let's stop sending all these stupid cards - Golf Digest 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z So we decided our standards didn't apply because they would have gotten in the way of a story of colossal unimportance. A V.I.P. Nets Package Offered Free to The Times 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z However, the researchers note, “in other cases… the absence of price effects shows the relative unimportance of labor in a business’s cost structure.” One of the most popular arguments against raising the minimum wage is getting demolished 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z We were on the frontlines as the recession loomed, but so wary, so accustomed to our unimportance, that we dropped arms and watched it advance. ‘Ireland is becoming no place for the young… we need brave people willing to be bad citizens’ 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z The reason is understandable: No one wants to believe that they just spent a chunk of their finite existence occupying themselves with something of relative unimportance. The Iowa caucus is overrated: The “big day” everyone’s obssessed with isn’t as important as you’ve been told 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Concerns, then, about a fixation on the scale, experts say, aren’t a reflection of the unimportance of weight loss. Don’t Let the Scale Hijack Your Exercise Plans 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z In the past 15 years or so, there has been a debate growing about the importance, or, rather, unimportance of getting children vaccinated for infectious diseases. Editorials from around Ohio 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z This was either bad strategy or further confirmation of the unimportance of that community in the eyes of Ferguson’s authorities. Chronicle of a Riot Foretold in Ferguson 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z He asked them to stress the unimportance of early line combinations, which will fluctuate throughout the early preseason games. Coach Barry Trotz creates player-based leadership group with Capitals Saved you a click is a joke that's over, just as all jokes-of-a-moment eventually turn into the cloying aftertaste of unimportance. Are you proud of yourself, @savedyouaclick? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z During the fifteenth century the Inquisition in central Italy subsided into the same unimportance that we have witnessed elsewhere. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z The unimportance of his state, Idaho, has freed him from any illusions about himself with respect to the Presidency. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z One of the coaches was surprised by the relative unimportance of free throw proficiency. The Quad: Statistics That Drive Success in the Colonial 2012-01-04T11:00:06Z And therefore the success or failure of Stoat's mission had seemed to him, at first, a matter of relative unimportance. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z No doubt it was part of the game, and done to impress me with a due sense of my unimportance.” The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z They also have the appearance of being unmotivated, the appearance of insignificance and unimportance, but in addition, and more plainly, of superfluity. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z What has brought Congress to this state has been the unimportance of its work, "doing such little things," as Mr. Root said after his six years in the Senate. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z The unimportance of this part of the "greats" curriculum is evident in the fact that it is recommended, not required. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z The New Theater was a splendid and costly attempt, and it taught us several invaluable lessons, chief among them the occasional unimportance of money. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z The housekeeper doubtless took the remark as a reference to the entire unimportance of a bent nail, but I noticed that Hewitt dropped the article quietly into his pocket. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z It seems to reflect importance on the documents which Mr. Hard endeavors to minimize to a position of ridiculous unimportance. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z With the enfeeblement of Congress through the growing unimportance of the taxing power, its great function, came the tendency to magnify the Executive. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z Both in the Lutheran and in the Reformed church comparatively little stress was laid upon distinctive confessional doctrines, and pietism and rationalism, for different reasons, had taught the relative unimportance of dogma. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Both in thought and in feeling, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z She was of opinion that men and women need leisure in which to reflect upon their lives, and to remember both the high purpose and the unimportance of earthly existence. Niece Catherine 2011-07-30T02:00:13.927Z I imagine that the opinion of him held by others, is to him of the most absolute unimportance. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z It is of comparative unimportance because only a slight judicial familiarity with his works, especially those of the pre-Japanese periods, demonstrates that so far as concerns substratum and substance of character he had neither. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z At the moment the 89 others were deep in a discussion about something of comparative unimportance. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z But unimportance is not unreality; and therefore what we shall have to say about Zeno's arguments in support of Parmenides must be mainly critical. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Book II. opens with a renewed declamation on the power and glory of love, and the relative unimportance of the wars and catastrophes of history. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z She would have been quite frightened if she had been less well trained by the Bishop in unimportance. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z With the average social being, the transcendental bearing of a proposition is synonymous with its practical unimportance. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z Others, like Bolton or Michael Brown, are just hacks who are brought in to demonstrate the unimportance and uselessness of whatever position they are supposed to be filling. John Bolton: I care about things besides bombing Iran 2011-05-06T17:45:00Z But she had a wholesome conviction of her own unimportance on this occasion, and comforted herself with the hope of being left to look on without more notice from any one than mere courtesy demanded. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z I stood with my hands thrust carelessly into my trousers pockets, rocking slightly upon my heels to convey a sense of the unimportance of my service. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Rolfe, piqued at his own unimportance at these festive occasions, wrote a political and economic treatise on the colony. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z The wound, in fact, was so severe that at first she felt only a numbness that reduced everything to unimportance, robbing her of volition. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z "One has then to consider the importance or the unimportance of what one has to withhold." The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z You must forget it, think of its relative unimportance on a galactic scale, and consider instead the existing, suffering, hordes of mankind. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z The unimportance of earth was visible in the distance. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z The thing that takes away from their interest, as one grows older, is the unimportance of the censorship that agonizes them. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Now he looked up quickly, gazing at Henry Carleton with a singular intentness, considering the comparative unimportance of the matter involved. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z For all the talk about the unimportance of the FA Cup, an encounter such as this dispels the jaded remarks. Leeds United 1-3 Arsenal 2011-01-19T22:00:22Z Also, a nearly infinite positive value inversely proportional to the unimportance of the displayed entertainment. Inbox: Letters to the Editor 2010-07-10T18:13:00Z The country of Latvia, which suffered its own monumental economic collapse last year, says that Iceland is being ganged up on because of its size and relative unimportance. 2010-01-11T16:55:00Z It strikes one at first as somewhat too pretentious in its endless fortifications, palaces, hospitals, churches, public institutions, theatres, and population, for a place so circumscribed geographically, and of such seeming commercial unimportance. The Story of Malta He supposed he had obtained a comfortable third, and really it seemed of the utmost unimportance in view of what a gulf now lay between him and Oxford. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Oh! domesticity has played a great part in history, though men-servants have been of comparative unimportance.... Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 On account of his unimportance, Monsieur de la Mole did not answer to her needs. Marguerite de Valois The Black Mountain tribes took no part in the general frontier rising of 1897, and after the disappearance of the Hindostani Fanatics they sank into comparative unimportance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The eight weeks which now separated Victoria from the old days at the 'Rosebud' had driven deeper yet into her soul her unimportance. A Bed of Roses Chator came to fetch him while he was worrying over Barnes' lapse into unimportance, and together they passed through the sacristy into the Clergy House. Sinister Street, vol. 2 It may seem a matter of unimportance at the present time whether this Torbane Hill mineral is a true coal or not. Coal and What We Get from It Whether he divined, or not, what it really was, is a matter of relative unimportance. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel But I am not at all in sympathy with those critics of music and the drama who lay stress on the relative unimportance of interpreters. Interpreters Her own dress allowance of a hundred a year had invariably to be supplemented by an indulgent father, but it seemed to her a matter of supreme unimportance whether Robert were rich or poor. A Question of Marriage Madame received the company, and did the honors; my father lounging about like an unoccupied guest, and actually amused, as it seemed, by his own unimportance. That Boy Of Norcott's That direct question, together with its hint at the personal unimportance of his attachment to a cause of pure justice, filled Charles with both resentment and discomfort. The Bright Shawl In the presence of such an awful and mysterious power as this even the quarrels of nations seem to shrink into unimportance, and almost to pettiness. The Angel of the Revolution A Tale of the Coming Terror Whether or no his statements be such as Ecclesiastical Courts take cognizance of, is to me a matter of profound unimportance. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford Was it their relative unimportance in the Robert Camerons’ estimation, or a pair of steady gray eyes, that had altered her valuation? The Camerons of Highboro Nor need I suggest that their relative unimportance last year 25 was due solely to lack of strong leadership. Carmen Ariza She does not seem to have had a good time with them, as 52 Stevenson had with “Treasure Island,” a story in other ways of comparative unimportance. A Manual of the Art of Fiction I have before shown the inferiority and unimportance in nature of color, as a truth, compared with light and shade. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) But a sense of my own unimportance has saved me––or the world, at any rate––from such laments. Hidden Water There was no longer in his mind any question as to the importance of this inquiry, and the comparative unimportance of that other one, opening with much pomp at the Prefecture. The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue A venial sin is one which, because of the unimportance of the precept involved, or in consequence of incomplete consent, does not destroy the state of grace. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise Their personal unimportance to the Universe, and remoteness from the Market-place of Life allow them to dawdle. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Importance of light and shade in expressing the character of bodies, and unimportance of color. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) The consciousness of his personal unimportance to the world was accentuated against the free vastness on which he gazed. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real Not merely because it's absolutely true—for, as a matter of fact, I think most reports are—but because of its utter unimportance! The Limit Of the first of these three attitudes, it may be said briefly that the relative unimportance of enlightenment is a fact, but no argument against it. The Sexual Life of the Child Had Jack shown any interest, any excitement in the matter, his sway might have been doubtful; but in proportion to the sense of his own insignificance and unimportance Wodehouse's allegiance confirmed itself. The Perpetual Curate Daylight broke in 1914, and the night of isolation and of international unimportance gave place to a new day of imperial power. The American Empire For in the Jewish family, girls were not valued so highly as boys, and were made to feel their unimportance in many ways that would be highly displeasing to little sisters of to-day. Christmas Light Apparently he had amused himself during his youth jotting down items of preposterous unimportance. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath I felt that my suburban street, secluded in trees and unimportance, was as remote from the evil I knew of as though it were in Alaska. Waiting for Daylight When, now and then, on a calm night I look up at the Stars, I reflect on the wonders of Creation, the unimportance of this Planet, and the possible existence of other worlds like ours. More Trivia His knowledge of the fleetingness of life, and of the unimportance of all he had once thought so important, was too vividly present.... Studies in love and in terror Their remoteness, their poverty, and their comparative unimportance as a people, for a long time protected them from interference; and for centuries they remained unnoticed by Rome. The Huguenots in France He was apt to forget his rank and comparative unimportance when technical matters were discussed. Brandon of the Engineers In all outer seeming Oxford appears a mere assemblage of indifferent streets that have grown out of the needs of the University, and this impression is heightened by its commercial unimportance. Stray Studies from England and Italy But to her belonged a calm which came from a clear perception of the comparative unimportance of petty incident. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure It's more a sense of apprehension, a realization of my own unimportance. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters As though the unimportance of Rome were not thus sufficiently established, Constantine abandoned the decaying capital altogether, and built himself a new city, Constantinople, at the junction of Europe and Asia. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Something has held me back—a friendship, business, links which were only imaginary fetters, a host of trivial unimportances masquerading in my mood of the moment as serious affairs. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends The first shows the unimportance of the organic matters of the soil, which are here unusually abundant, without in any way counteracting the infertility dependent on the absence of the other constituents. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry It is the tale of all those domestic and municipal details which from their very unimportance have well-nigh disappeared. The Story of Rouen If he let things go, now, the currently thriving business of risk insurance would return to its former unimportance. The Pirates of Ersatz When one considers the largeness of the works to which Paine has devoted himself 163 chiefly, he can be excused for the meagreness and comparative unimportance of his smaller works for piano and vocal solo. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions More carefully but resolutely I threaded my way up Cortlandt Street, and at every step my sense of my unimportance increased. David Malcolm For the greater part of that time the classics of every description and of every degree of unimportance held their own. The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting The birth of the child only served to accentuate her unimportance in the house. Artists' Wives Rachel had managed to leave behind a feeling of the unimportance of everybody but Rachel. Erik Dorn The more significant folkways, standards of importance and unimportance, of the admirable and the despicable, the noble and the base, are determined by approvals and disapprovals that have become socially habitual. Human Traits and their Social Significance Previous to June, 1918, the participation of American troops in military operations had been of comparative unimportance and less for tactical purposes than as a part of their training. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. You must forget it, think of its relative unimportance on a galactic scale, and consider instead the existing, suffering hordes of mankind. Planet of the Damned Evidently the combinations which lower prices by restricting competition among purchasers are not to be overlooked because of unimportance. Monopolies and the People Wapoota performed his part nobly—and without being captured, for he did not agree with Ongoloo as to the unimportance of his own death! The Madman and the Pirate "Enough too," I laughed, as I bade the Australian lad, with the very Australian estimate of the unimportance of some things sacred to English minds, the Australian parting salute— "So long!" Some Everyday Folk and Dawn The next day was full of strange suspense; it was coloured throughout with that quality of strangeness which puts a new light on all quotidian occupations and exposes their fundamental unimportance. Clayhanger I must say, however, that the whole thing seems to me of supreme unimportance. More About Peggy Amid the many momentous bearings of these events, it is for me to note only one of comparative unimportance,—the effect which they produced upon English public opinion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Sixty-nine of the old corporate towns, by reason of their unimportance, were now deprived of the character of boroughs. The Governments of Europe But it is not a matter of unimportance whether a man shall become attached to any country. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History The delightful and stimulating experience of his evening in the house of the Orgreaves sank into unimportance by the side of it. Clayhanger When you once realise the uncertainty of life, they seem of such unutterable unimportance. More About Peggy Since both Miss Smith and myself hail from Newcastle, her 'hunting ground' for shanties was also mine, and I am consequently in a position to assess the importance or unimportance of her work. The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties If man does not live for ever, his character and actions seem of comparative unimportance. Letters to His Friends It makes the individual helpless, and crushes him with a sense of his unimportance. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History As never before, Susan felt the curse of the tradition of the unimportance of women. Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian This view of the unimportance of the Monarchy will now be held by few really intelligent men. Historical and Political Essays Everything in the history of the Zambal people and their present comparative unimportance goes to show that they were the most indolent and backward of the Malayan peoples. Negritos of Zambales It was Vanno's duty to describe Marie in glowing terms, to induce the Duke to feel that despite her social unimportance she was a pearl among women. The Guests Of Hercules This other conception was the unimportance and unworthiness of the body and all material things. Heart and Soul by Maveric Post Leigh wondered whether their position symbolised their relative unimportance to the magnificent hall upon the hill, and indicated a grudging concession to the dominant scientific spirit of the times. The Mayor of Warwick For “living” is to be conscious of an incessant series of less than momentary sensations, of about equal poignancy, for the most part, and of nearly equal unimportance. Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines And again there were different levels of awareness in his mind—one consciously and defensively cynical, and one frightened at the revelation of his unimportance, and the third finding the others an unedifying spectacle. Operation: Outer Space Professor Lachsyrma fell to thinking of such trivial matters, contemptible in their unimportance, as we do at the terrible moments of our lives. Masques & Phases To these causes of awakening was added one still greater, but of like import—the rapid rise of the German navy from a position of comparative unimportance to one which threatened the British navy itself. The Navy as a Fighting Machine On the contrary, the omission might imply her knowledge of the absolute unimportance to him of any claims compared with those she chose to make. The Mayor of Warwick This unimportance is probably the forerunner of their total re-modification by the nation. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Earlier events of the Avenue fade into comparative unimportance when we come to September 30, 1899. Fifth Avenue What Phoebe had been was of supreme unimportance. Secret Bread But the very unimportance of New South Wales politics leaves open a wide door for strong language. Town Life in Australia Later the indignation grew to a deep and consuming rage, and he entertained thoughts of his power and influence and of the comparative unimportance of the grim-faced man who had robbed him. Square Deal Sanderson She herself was of the utmost unimportance except for the fact that he wanted her for his wife! The Moon out of Reach But Mr. Parnell and the Land League would all have been promptly reduced to the pitiful unimportance from which they had so noisily emerged if it had not been for Mr. Gladstone. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Reasoning—like a woman, to whom external appearance is scarcely in any circumstance a matter of unimportance, and like a beauty who has confidence in her own charms.—Kenilworth. What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 If so, that's a capital practical example of the comparative unimportance of soil, except as a means of supplying moisture. Science in Arcady The D.C. type is evidently already explicitly balanced as regards shape and intrinsic interest, and is hence of comparative unimportance to our problem. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. "You of all men surely understand a temperamental woman!" exclaimed Penelope, surprised at his keen perception of the details which can fret a woman so sorely in proportion to their apparent unimportance. The Moon out of Reach Tell me—And what can you mean about 'unimportance,' when you were worse last week ... this expiring week ... than ever before, by your own confession? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The proceedings of Paris all had this air of extraordinary importance and unimportance at the same time. The Economic Consequences of the Peace The only really serious question we have to face about money to-day is the unimportance of the men who have it. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy Our own impunity has resulted, not from our weakness, but from the unimportance to our rivals of the points in dispute, compared with their more immediate interests at home. The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future But the jar and din of the streets certainly served to make connected philosophical meditation upon the futility and unimportance of human existence decidedly unfruitful. A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. It may seem a matter of comparative unimportance, of trifling influence over your future fate, whether you attend Lady A.'s ball to-night, or Lady H.'s to-morrow. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends These cannot be reckoned among dreams of dread; they have, however, always been used to prove the unimportance and the psychical futility of dreams. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners But," I said, "is a little boy, then, never brought to a sense of his unimportance by being physically, if not morally, kicked? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 Youth is the time of hope; old age is the time for looking back on the pleasures and achievements of the past—when success or failure may seem matters of comparative unimportance. Success (Second Edition) That is to say, a war may be limited physically by the strategical isolation of the object, as well as morally by its comparative unimportance. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy Is it not possible that the Church might see the trivial unimportance of all those matters which at present dismember her, if she saw the supreme importance of Christ as a Teacher? Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality It seemed to her at this moment that it was a matter of the utmost unimportance whether she loved him or not; but she could not live without believing him. The Brimming Cup But by the time his training is complete he has realized that whether he hates a thing or not, sees the point of a thing or not, is a matter of the uttermost unimportance. A Student in Arms Second Series Where riches accumulated, they could be regarded as the blessing of God; where they were absent their unimportance for eternal happiness could be emphasized. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham Of the minor characters the fool is minor only through his station and unimportance in the plot; he really occupies much space in the play and in fact pervades it. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies My cousin Eileen, a smiling lady of plump unimportance, to whom I afterwards told my fancy, could not understand it. Jaffery Mr. Browning has used it to indicate the comparative unimportance of his contribution to the Cenci story. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) All through his training he is learning the unimportance of his individuality, realizing that in a national, a world crisis, it counts for nothing. A Student in Arms Second Series The Patuxent and the Wicomico, with the coast between them, offered no strong temptation to a rapacious foe, and the inhabitants reposed in the fancied security of their isolation and unimportance. The Missing Bride De Quincey's contributions to the tale of terror shrink into unimportance beside the rest of his work, and are not in themselves remarkable. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance So insistent was this reality that revealed itself that even the shooting of the Dublin people after the gun-running of Howth was dwarfed to unimportance. Mr. Britling Sees It Through An individual called Kross, probably an insignificant, little man, felt his unimportance so deeply that he gave full licence to his penknife and carved his name in deep letters an inch high. Love And amid all the tragedy of his heart, and all his apprehensions concerning hollow, worldly success, little thoughts of absurd unimportance kept running about like clockwork mice in his head. The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns And indeed he felt that he had that very night become adult, and that a new impulse, reducing all previous impulses to unimportance, had inspired his life. The Roll-Call I felt the negation, the sudden slipping into insignificant unimportance of the whole of the Western world—and, at the same time, the dismissal of the East. The Secret City But it is endless to try to reckon up the fashions in which people show that they have not learnt the lesson of their own unimportance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator Of course, if one wishes to emphasize the unimportance of Palawan, it is more convenient to take the figures for the island. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) As we drew aside to make room for him to pass, once more the civilian realized his helplessness and unimportance. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form A great deal has been said, and it is plain that the topic is inexhaustible, on the unimportance of a position. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 Why cannot he be allowed to rest, once for all, in his amiable unimportance? The Three Brontës So you waste time, my friend, in trying to convince me of all human life's failure and unimportance, for I am not in sympathy with this modern morbid pessimistic way of talking. Figures of Earth Thus, some make comedy a representation of mean and others of bad men; some think that its essence consists in the unimportance, others in the fictitiousness of the transaction. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II The vast columned waiting room, the hurrying people, the uniformed guards gave him a feeling of personal unimportance. Cheerful—By Request The subject dropped then, went back to war and how men feel on the edge of death, of the unimportance of death anyway. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth By such acts of voluntary delusion does every man endeavour to conceal his own unimportance from himself. Samuel Johnson Here one has a wholesome notion of the unimportance of the individual. Poems By such arts of voluntary delusion does every man endeavour to conceal his own unimportance from himself. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II But I admit that I now call upon the Lord less often and less imperatively than I did before the stern years taught me my unimportance in the great scheme of things. The Story of a Pioneer True, he talked much and wildishly; but literary men had a name for eccentricity, and, besides, Lady Claridge always dealt with the opinions of other people as matters of illimitable unimportance. The Certain Hour "Oh, Freddy——" Rosedale brushed aside the topic with an air of its unimportance which gave a sense of the immense perspective he had acquired. House of Mirth England, which under Cromwell had bid fair to take a foremost place in Europe, sank under Charles II into unimportance. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 —For, the mere facts of the case she plainly demonstrates, with the abettance of her dimples, to be an affair of unimportance; the real point is what she wishes done about it. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking He recognizes his limitations, and in consequence the unimportance of his opinions, and indeed he recognizes the probable unimportance of all fleshly matters. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice No more deadly insult could be offered him than forgiveness of his sins on the ground of their unimportance. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Because the greater his nominal unimportance the more he comes in actual contact with the patient. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day A letter from his publishers informing him of a tenth edition was of ironical unimportance. Fortitude It was another lesson, if that were needed, of our total unimportance. The Glory of the Trenches But the silence of all the accounts as to the locality surely teaches us the unimportance of knowledge on the point. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII In fact, how should you, at the moment of first ascertaining your own total unimportance in the sum of things?—a poor shivering unit in the aggregate of human life. Autobiographical Sketches This mixture seemed to have the advantage of keeping up an average value of the larger number of the characters, which either from their nature or from their apparent unimportance had necessarily to be neglected. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Such a country brings home to man his helplessness and unimportance before untamed nature. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Unimportance -- N. unimportance, insignificance, nothingness, immateriality. triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness &c. adj.; poverty; smallness &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases He had with atrocious inhumanity reduced her to the unimportance of a child. Hilda Lessways It is for nations to produce the events, that enchant the imagination, and ennoble the page of history: infancy must always pass away in the unimportance of mirth, and the privacy of retreat. Four Early Pamphlets In proportion to the unimportance of the shibboleth was tenacity to it,--a mark which has ever characterized narrow and illiberal minds. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity I had not bothered about them at the time, for when you are being tried for your life other matters are apt to assume a certain degree of unimportance. A Rogue by Compulsion Consider the unimportance of a collective purpose to the woman whose career is the mate, and then the mate's career. The Glands Regulating Personality Sir Oliver Lodge spoke strongly in favour of these institutions, calling them a protest against the idea of the comparative unimportance of childhood. The Child under Eight But the difference, whatever may have been its nature, was seemingly a matter of unimportance to Mrs. Pendomer, who was in meditation. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations From that day to this, talk about the unimportance, the futility of man and his destiny has left me quite cold. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography It is this flaw in an otherwise well regulated mind, this "blind spot" in my spiritual eye, that perhaps makes me attach undue unimportance to the attraction of autographs. Without Prejudice In the utmost importance there is unimportance, and in the utmost unimportance there is importance. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler For intimate things, he always used that language; his English, being uncertain, was kept for matters of unimportance. A Prisoner in Fairyland This compromise effected, the manner of eating it was to her a detail of indescribable unimportance. Many Kingdoms With this indispensable lesson in the essentials of living always comes the scarcely less momentous one of the utter unimportance of youth. The Shagganappi He was polite to the wakes; but now, with the least inflection in the world, he put the wakes at its proper level in the scheme of things as a local unimportance! The Old Wives' Tale The grating and grinding noise makes one feel the unimportance of man in circumstances like ours. South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition "I've seen brigadiers before now reduced to a proper sense of their own unimportance!" remarked another man. Rung Ho! I'd sink into unimportance—my unparalleled misfortunes would degrade me to a level with the commonest! The Prodigal Judge His business is to look at the others and to indicate forgetfulness of self, incompetence, unimportance, vacuity, simplicity. The Hohenzollerns in America All her daily troubles sank away to their proper scale of unimportance. The Old Wives' Tale The whole range of motives is strangely different, and men can never grasp the comparative unimportance with which women regard the question of occupation. Where No Fear Was She affected complete indifference; it was as though she had not heard him; if she could not be rid of him, she at least knew how to show him his utter unimportance in her estimation. Rung Ho! Sitting down before some interesting strata, I lost myself in something like nirvana, grew so subject to the idea of vastness in geological time that all human desires and purposes shrivelled to ridiculous unimportance. Born in Exile A wise old lady said: "My dear, you cannot exaggerate the unimportance of things." Nerves and Common Sense The governor, conscious of his own unimportance, was not a little disconcerted at this injunction, which it was not in his power to fulfil by any compulsive means. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Because of Stephanie's youth and seeming unimportance, her lack of what might be called compelling rosy charm, Aileen had become reasonably friendly with the girl. The Titan Was this the thanks a rising lawyer should receive for leaving the superior culture of Franklin and bringing his talents to add luster to the bleak unimportance of Kilo? Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent I consulted all who wished to see me; and if I wished to see any one, I sent for him; and where the consultation took place was a matter of supreme unimportance. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography Sara felt as though she had been suddenly relegated to a position of utter unimportance. The Hermit of Far End The ship's officers were ignored as to sailing time and matters of other unimportance to Grace Line stockholders. Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' For the first time his utter unimportance in the world and his inadequacy to this new life around him came upon him crushingly. A Waif of the Plains After watching the abject unimportance of the young diplomat in London society, Adams found himself a young duke in Washington. The Education of Henry Adams Boylike, he refused to recognize its unimportance to her. The Breaking Point The man who realizes his own proneness to err, and who keeps in mind the relative unimportance of his aims and powers, is not apt to explode in the face of opposition or contradiction. The Foundations of Personality His birth, his marriage, and his death are all duly chronicled in type, perhaps as sufficiently typical of the general unimportance of his life. The Soul of the Far East I had doubted so many things, and now suddenly I doubted my unimportance, doubted my right to this suicidal abandonment. The New Machiavelli |
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