| 单词 | insignificance |
| 例句 | The Wall stretched east and west as far as the eye could see, so huge that it shrunk the timbered keeps and stone towers of the castle to insignificance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The result was a quite new sense of the insignificance of human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Lazlo looked down at his feet, reluctant to explain his own insignificance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Hubble’s discovery that the universe was expanding, and the realization of the insignificance of our own planet in the vastness of the universe, were just the starting point. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All else at that New Year sank into insignificance beside this visit. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, rose to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There were a few normal people as well, but they faded into insignificance next to the predatory forms moving gracefully through the halls. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Sometimes they receded of their own accord, and the room he lay in grew impossibly large, terrorizing him with the specter of his own insignificance. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The New York Tribune also praised her, writing, “All the past efforts of Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton sink to insignificance beside the ingenious lobbying of the new leader and her daring declaration.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I am a “good person,” as my demented charges at the nursing home agree, but maybe Em also just sick of my suddenly acquired insignificance. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They were still looking at him with consternation and unbelief when the minister rose and introduced him in rich, rolling tones whose very unction served to increase the visitor's insignificance. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And Lazlo, who was accustomed to the near invisibility his insignificance bestowed on him, was jolted to feel the weight of that gaze on himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z All other music – even garage on pirate radio – faded into insignificance in that special iteration of OCD that music fans will ruefully recognise. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z When writing about space exploration, he drew on the sometimes otherworldly feeling that being in the mountains gave him — the exhilaration, isolation and sense of his own insignificance in a geological time frame. A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z There is, typically, not really a proper joke in there, just a moment of soft farce dwarfed into insignificance by the current events toward which it gestures. Reviving “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.” on the Post-Moonves CBS 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Fuelling our natural sense of our own insignificance is easy – it’s no wonder it’s what religion thrives on – but our greatest achievement as individuals is to battle those debilitating instincts. I’ve worked hard at my studies, but only to escape loneliness | Dear Mariella 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z The current season finds the prince increasingly exasperated with these circumstances, in terms of both the unhappy marriage that was thrust upon him and his continuing insignificance within the realm. Josh O’Connor Didn’t Care About the Crown Until He Became a Prince 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z That pales into insignificance next to the real-life trauma of other people. John Oliver Returns: ‘I’m Not a Complete Nihilist’ 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z But just because nothing extreme is happening this season, does not mean nothing is happening at all: Don’t mistake subtlety for insignificance. It’s Almost Fashion Month! Here’s What to Know 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But that pales into insignificance, as we’ve fallen for each other. Love across the divide: couples on Brexit, politics and religion 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z This may be taking things too far, but I'm also hearing the recording style of "Write To Your Brother" as a microcosm of man's cosmic insignificance and ultimate negligibility. Music Monday: Perfume Genius, Chocolate Chuck, OC Notes and Rik Rude 2010-08-09T20:13:00Z Sweating through the streets, you think he might evaporate, too, and that what we are watching is a man performing his own insignificance and futility. Francis Al?s treads the thin green line 2010-06-14T20:30:00Z As a hilarious YouTube video titled “Feminist Bond Girl” recently pointed out, Bond relies on his power over women because it’s the only thing that keeps him from the “crushing realization of my own insignificance.” Spectre Fails to Create a Powerful Bond Girl 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z In “Daddy,” the characters shift uncomfortably through the beautifully appointed shoe box dioramas of their lives, aware at once of their own insignificance and also of their desire for prominence. Emma Cline Knows First World Problems 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But this odd “Rescue Rangers” menagerie is surprising and eclectic, with some niche nods and deep-cut references, which is fitting given the conspicuous insignificance of the material and its heroes. ‘Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers’ Review: Remember Them? (No?) 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Everyone else paled into insignificance compared with her. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z So much more important, in fact, that even the most basic, normal characteristics of art, such as color, shape, size and technique, for example, seemed to slip into insignificance. 1969 Seattle art exhibit listed as one of late 20th century’s best 2013-08-15T17:40:10Z But there’s more than one wife drowning in insignificance in this novel. Review | The most surprising novel this year is a modern-day ‘Beowulf’ minus the macho hero 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The film’s various eccentricities and deficiencies pale into insignificance as its singular modus operandi grips you by the throat. Why 1917 should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Among psychologists, the received wisdom is that feelings of insignificance are distressing. How to stop feeling insignificant | Oliver Burkeman 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Lessing's departure into science fiction in the late 1970s raised some predictably snobbish responses from literary critics, one writing that she "propagandises on behalf of our insignificance in the cosmic razzmatazz". Summer voyages: Shikasta Re: Colonised Planet 5 by Doris Lessing 2013-07-22T12:26:12Z Most of the neighborhood’s places for samosas and naan, though, are either gone or faded into insignificance. Sahib, in Curry Hill, Lets You Eat All Over India 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z In the face of his existential threat, all other differences pale into insignificance. What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z It was as if I could see my life clearly for the very first time, its shabbiness, its mean-spirited insignificance. T Magazine: Room With a Purview 2011-11-25T17:30:45Z It's the reverse-image of a "God's eye view," but still signifies the insignificance of people. A superb ensemble anchors "The Humans," showcasing an anguished, claustrophobic Thanksgiving dinner 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z But they almost always mean insignificance compared with other people: celebrities, formidable parents, hyper-accomplished friends. How to stop feeling insignificant | Oliver Burkeman 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Yet, as this exhibition proves, while society names may fade into insignificance, their jewels remain, as imaginative design and technical virtuosity ensure an eternal sparkle. Parisian Exhibit Reveals Secrets of Fine Jewelry Making 2012-11-27T13:30:19Z In the service of the first, Phelps amplifies minor plot points and passing comments in the book and casts Poirot as past his prime, fearful of decrepitude and insignificance. Review: In Amazon’s ‘ABC Murders,’ John Malkovich Is a Sad Poirot 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z However, these boilerplate roles pale into insignificance next to his imminent directorial debut. Plan B: 'Strickland Banks may be soul, but it's still real life' 2010-12-16T22:29:00Z Not necessarily a cause, or a specific battle, but “an experience so large that you shrink to insignificance in its presence. And that’s how you get lost in it.” A Reckoning With the Wars He Has Known 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Earth's insignificance in the cosmos, the beautiful balance of heavenly bodies, sets one to wonder about creation and the problem of evil. Readers recommend: songs about space ? results 2011-08-18T14:35:12Z Just as wilderness in New Zealand had frightened me, the Mendenhall glacier reminded me of my insignificance. Conquering your fears in Alaska: go big, or go home 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z We are living in an era when some advertising executive gazes at the moon and sees not beauty, or a humbling reminder of his insignificance, but the Earth’s most unignorable billboard. Review: ‘The Attention Merchants’ Dissects the Battle for Clicks and Eyeballs 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Yet Enrigue is no fool for simple tales: "Sudden Death" plucks the horizon-line tension between meaning and insignificance, order and chaos. Aztec and European empires collide in the strange and bloody 'Sudden Death' by Álvaro Enrigue 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z I suppose with all the right conditions and effort you can do that almost anywhere, though when I’m at home, the doorbell rings, the roof springs a leak, the smallest insignificance summons. Four days of silence 2012-10-16T00:00:00Z Similarly, Friedrich’s painting is a contradiction between self-reflection in the wake of realizing one’s own insignificance; a visual iteration of the Kantian philosophy that one’s experiences are merely a product of the mind. How memes are breaking down elitism in the fine art world 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z Some shows operate at a granular level, risking larger insignificance, and others work more broadly, risking stereotype. The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z With the sky as a proscenium arch, it’s a stage that inspires us to ponder our own insignificance in the grand scheme of things, at least compared to the larger-than-life stories we tell ourselves. Making Waves: 10 Memorable Beach Scenes 2013-08-05T09:45:21Z Men who crave “the familiar comfort of anonymity and insignificance . . . overcompensate for this shameful desire by choosing the most significant player available.” Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z I have stretch marks, larger feet and strangely larger hands as a result of carrying a child, but these pale into insignificance compared with the physical damage it caused. 'My teeth moved so much I needed braces' – readers on how childbirth changed them 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Bitterly contested divorces pale into insignificance compared with the heightened emotions that are the result of an ex-prime minister, over-inflated with his own persuasive abilities, lumbering us with a referendum. My husband’s boasts are worse since Brexit – and I can’t stand it | Dear Mariella 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z But the victory pales into insignificance when compared with the larger battle 17-year-old Azizi is fighting - to pursue her dream of becoming a famous singer despite the censure of ultra-conservative Afghan society. Afghan singer's star is rising, as are the threats 2013-01-30T14:14:51Z And yet Eastwood’s mildly unorthodox methods surely pale into insignificance compared with the behaviour of some of his Hollywood peers. Hell of a film-maker: the directors who make Clint Eastwood look soft 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Overall one is left with a shuddering sense of X’s insignificance, its preoccupation with what more politically motivated successors deem “opulent micro-concerns.” Chuck Klosterman Rewinds to ‘The Nineties’ 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z It's upbeat and jangly and intentionally silly, although its silliness pales into insignificance when compared to the final track on this week's list. Readers recommend: songs about aliens – results 2013-05-09T13:00:02Z It applies to both humans and nature, to our personal insignificance and equal importance in an unbreakable cycle. Dance Review: From Japan, a Reminder That We Are Dust, and to Dust We Return 2010-10-06T21:44:00Z Just about long enough for some pretty horrific memories to have faded into insignificance. Can the new Judge Dredd movie excise all memories of Sly Stallone and Rob Schneider? 2010-09-16T13:59:00Z Whereas "Rick and Morty" is a ragtag exploration of nihilism and feelings of personal insignificance — the idea being that if no one belongs anywhere and everyone is going to die, what's the point? From "Solar Opposites" to "Midnight Gospel," recent otherworldly animation is worth the head-trip 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z Consider cosmic insignificance, though, and these status differences vanish. How to stop feeling insignificant | Oliver Burkeman 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z The principal duo are attended by four bare-chested guys in designer suits – angels of death, presumably – whose catwalk narcissism and macho posturing set the seal of insignificance on the piece. Nederlands Dans Theater; Counterpoint; Slow Dancing 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Mr. Allen “has become the American cinema’s great champion of cosmic insignificance,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in September. DVDs: Painting It Red: Midcareer Minnelli 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z All of which pale into insignificance compared with The Only Way Is Essex Live. Worst ideas of 2012: everything on TV going live 2012-12-28T23:00:06Z Yet “The Band’s Visit” — which follows the modest adventures of a touring Egyptian band stranded in an Israeli village significant only for its insignificance — more than holds its own on a larger stage. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In 1931, she interviewed Hitler, scoffing at his “startling insignificance” when encountered face-to-face. Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z My insignificance had become unspeakably beautiful to me. The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Reported at the start of Spears’s Las Vegas residency, Brodesser-Akner’s piece succeeds in getting past much of the well-worn commentary about the pop star, her much-criticized boringness, and her cultural significance or insignificance. Weekend Reading: Soccer Violence, Nazi Hipsters, and More 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Women and men of Asian ethnicities are so often neglected, excluded and marginalized in the Western academy, so as a college student I’d no doubt internalized my alleged insignificance. bell hooks changed my limited perception. In Praise of bell hooks 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z The two leads, by contrast, pale into wordy insignificance: Richard Madden’s Romeo and, especially, Lily James’s Juliet approach the verse from the outside in with little apparent connection to its meaning. Review: ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Human Animals.’ 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z I like having it near me: a sharp-edged reminder of one’s insignificance as measured against the great temporal span. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z We hobbled back to our seats, shamed into understanding our insignificance. The Burkina Faso film festival fit a president 2011-03-10T22:33:01Z Faber describes the book as a "wryly comic yet deeply serious glance at the ultimate insignificance of life and politics, told through the daily lives of four friends in modern-day Paris." Milan Kundera novel 'The Festival of Insignificance' coming in English 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z A passing car fades into insignificance beneath striated rockface that it took the Earth millennia to create. Roe Ethridge’s “American Spirit” 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z To look up at night is to confront the enormity of the universe and of our own insignificance. A Space Rocket for the Common Man 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Separated from his wife, Johnny is adrift between movies, having recently completed something of implied insignificance called "Berlin Agenda". Somewhere ? review 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Writing about space tends to either glorify the taciturn daring of a few or muse on humanity's insignificance in the context of the vast universe. 'Leaving Orbit' cheers spaceflight's feats, mourns its fading 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z A corollary of this argument: The crimes committed against the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were so unspeakable, so outsized in their impact, that Oppenheimer’s perspective does and should dwindle into insignificance by comparison. ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t show us Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That's an act of rigor, not erasure 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z This subordination often has a spiritual implication: people are offered an opportunity to transcend their own sense of insignificance through participation in a powerful movement of the chosen. Yes, we have home-grown fascists — and now they’re beginning to say the quiet part out loud 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The solution, the filmmaker argues, is a spiritual communion with the unknown, because there’s healing in surrendering to one’s perfect insignificance as part of something bigger. Review: 'The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future' carries an eerily optimistic tune 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Thanks to the legacy of Alexander’s conquests, Greek culture went from relative insignificance to become a major influence on the entire region. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Proctor said he carries the enduring lesson that religion and political backgrounds shrink into insignificance in the face of grief. Fathers shot, daughters killed in bombings: Ghosts of the blood-soaked Troubles haunt Northern Ireland 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z "Faced with such a scene, you can instantly forget all your troubles, and only lament the insignificance of human beings in front of nature," Mr Zheng told the BBC. Unusually vivid Southern Lights glow over New Zealand 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z There’s this interest in the deep time, and in some ways, it’s both an acknowledgement of our individual insignificance but also our lineage that is much longer and vaster than is usually acknowledged. This photo of a busy intersection in Downtown L.A. is a meditation on infinity 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z But that pales into insignificance compared to the time Hetfield misjudged the placement of a pyrotechnic during a show in the 1990s. Florence Welch cancels UK tour after breaking foot on stage 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Yet the relative insignificance of the crypto markets to the larger financial picture is exactly why this story is worth paying attention to. Opinion | The FTX calamity explains why crypto is irrelevant 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z It seems that a “munch” is a guy who, ahem, has only one use — an admirer so inadequate, a new piece of slang had to be invented to properly describe his insignificance. Review | Ice Spice raps like she’s in her own head. Is she in yours yet? 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z But that will not be the legacy of this Elizabeth, who reigned over Britain’s long transition from empire to Commonwealth, from world power to relative international insignificance. A Global Outpouring of Grief Mixes With Criticism of the Monarchy 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z By the 1970s, populations of large whales had dwindled to insignificance. The USSR once hunted endangered whales — while its scientists secretly tracked its toll 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Yet compare her pay to the men's England captain Harry Kane and it pales into insignificance. How much do women footballers get paid? 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z And because it’s about us — well, us and the genetically modified giant locusts — the dinosaurs themselves fade even further into insignificance. Review: Overlong franchise finale ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ falls short of veloci-rapture 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z More festivals need to be thinking the same way, before they programme themselves into insignificance. Music festivals: Only 13% of UK headliners in 2022 are female 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z “Russia is falling down the ranks and will drift into insignificance over the course of the year,” he added. Four-fifths of EM funds still trapped in Russian stocks - research 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s enjoyable because it gives you permission to suffer the pain of insignificance, the horror of sudden ignorance but, unlike the characters, come out the other end. Amazon’s Outer Range brings the weird fiction mindset to Westerns 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The multiverse, with its billions upon billions of alternate realities telescoping outward, would seem to only amplify our insignificance. Tripping Through the Universes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The Oscars telecast may have suddenly become newsworthy again, but the Oscars themselves — the winning performers, artists and films — all but faded into insignificance. How Questlove's 'Summer of Soul' win got lost in Oscars' ugliest moment 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z That led to a shift in Putin's risk calculus where the short-term costs of his actions paled into insignificance compared to the bigger historical picture, he said. Analysis: Putin moves on Donbass but signals deeper designs on Ukraine 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z “President Biden basically gave Putin a green light to invade Ukraine by yammering about the supposed insignificance of a ‘minor incursion.’ Biden’s Ukraine comments prompt uproar at home and abroad 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z “President Biden basically gave Putin a green light to invade Ukraine by yammering about the supposed insignificance of a ‘minor incursion,’” said Republican Sen. Ben Sasse. Biden says nation weary from COVID but rising with him in WH 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Noting her knack for appearing at critical moments, the surgeon wrote: “Gen. McClellan, with all his laurels, sinks into insignificance beside the true heroine of the age, the angel of the battlefield.” Clara Barton, nurse and activist, spent a lifetime serving others 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z And yet we are aware, we are observers of that insignificance. Shatner marvels at Blue Origin flight frenzy, ‘finite’ Earth 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z The observable universe extends out to 1019 Earth radii, and the only way to respect our cosmic insignificance is not to show off, but rather to stay modest. Note to Branson and Bezos: Extraterrestrials Will Not Be Impressed 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Afghan officials largely ignored the suggestions until now, unwilling to cede any territory — despite its strategic insignificance — to the insurgents. U.S. Airstrikes in Afghanistan Could Be a Sign of What Comes Next 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z She said the costs of the computer, which would be in the hundreds of millions of pound, would "pale into insignificance" compared with the costs of extreme events for which society is unprepared. Climate change: Science failed to predict flood and heat intensity 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The unorthodox setting and insignificance of the outcome didn’t temper anything. The Sounders-Timbers Cascadia rivalry endured MLS’ COVID-19 pandemic protocols. Now, the fans and fervor are back. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z These contemplative instances, courtesy of her longtime cinematographer, Joshua James Richards, visually denote mankind’s insignificance in the face of nature’s grandeur. The magic of Chloé Zhao: How the Oscars favorite gets brilliant performances from non-actors 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z My goodness – the sheer insignificance of the things I had previously obsessed about! Too much perspective? Bring on the trivial luxury of the Premier League | Marina Hyde 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z He warned broadcasters they risk fading into insignificance if they don't better represent "marginalised" people. David Olusoga: 'TV industry left me crushed' 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z The sole aberration on the 2nd, his 11th, paled into insignificance against a six under par round. Brooks Koepka overcomes injury fears in bid to make history at US PGA Championship 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Messages of pre-eminent white value and Black insignificance, DiAngelo pronounced, “are raining down on us 24/7, and there are no umbrellas.” ‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work? 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Almost immediately, however this seeming lack of gorilla social graces recedes into insignificance. Gorilla turns 2 at the zoo, with party and cake 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Even George W Bush’s epically disastrous war in Iraq pales into insignificance. As the numbers of dead and unemployed grow, Trump looks and sounds smaller | Richard Wolffe 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z MacDonald had been counting down the days to a first-team return before English football shut down owing to the coronavirus pandemic but he acknowledges such targets pale into insignificance at times such as these. Hull's Angus MacDonald on surviving cancer: 'I felt there was no way back' 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z But, when I finally get to the front of the enormous glacier that the scientists I'm accompanying are here to study, that sense of insignificance dissolves. A place that prompts the questions that really matter 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z In reality there is no good solution to any of this, just as the postponement of European football’s £2bn cash cow shrinks into insignificance alongside the wider effects of the current viral slowdown. Cursed Euro 2020 might just give us what we need next year | Barney Ronay 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z He published ‘Nightfall’ in Astounding, a metaphor for humankind’s devastating psychological confrontation with its own cosmic insignificance. Isaac Asimov: centenary of the great explainer 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The league sure hasn’t stopped trying, at least, to prevent such insignificance from pushing fans away. NFL at 100: Afterthought as it is, Pro Bowl has rich history 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z But in his obituary, which he penned himself, Lancaster mentioned none of those professional achievements and wrote that “material matters pale into insignificance” when compared with the love of family and friends. Special master to Supreme Court among Maine’s notable deaths 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z “You suddenly realize that you are a person of the utmost insignificance.” Welcome to Parliament. Now Sit Down and Shut Up. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Given the distances involved, however, the magnitude of this effect would be “exceedingly small,” essentially to the point of utter insignificance, Zhang says. Space Heater: Scientists Find New Way to Transfer Energy Through a Vacuum 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z "I provided the sort code of the wrong Barclays branch. But my error fades into near insignificance when considered in the context of Barclays' conduct." Pensioner in £193,000 inheritance battle with bank 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z It may not be as clear-cut as a simple declaration of significance or insignificance, but “we’ll have a better idea of what’s going on,” Lazar said. Sorry, wrong number: Statistical benchmark comes under fire 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It paled towards insignificance, however, as the seriousness of Mongolian Groom’s injury became apparent. Vino Rosso wins Breeders' Cup Classic marred by another Santa Anita death 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z If the victory of our cultural team is all that matters, then the methods our leaders employ become secondary to the point of insignificance. Opinion | The serious danger of politics as tribal conflict 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Much as Peebles’s research emphasized Earthlings’ insignificance in the context of the universe, Mayor and Queloz’s discovery revealed how rare and unusual we are. Nobel Prize in physics awarded for research on exoplanets and the structure of the universe 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The justices reduced the “privileges or immunities” guaranteed to American citizens in the 14th to virtual insignificance, insisting that most rights still derived from state, not national, citizenship. Opinion | The Lost Promise of Reconstruction 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Ultimately, however, this is a philosophical film: a soul-searching examination of our insignificance at the cosmic scale. Aniara: an angst-fuelled journey through the void 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z This paled into insignificance, though, as Koepka for the first time addressed – as he so eloquently put it – “dropping my robe”. Brooks Koepka streaks into share of lead at Tour Championship 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z A former Scientist who worked at the church for a decade told me recently that employees chagrined by their insignificance were constantly praying about the “imposition of omission” – religious jargon for everyone forgetting about them. Dying the Christian Science way: the horror of my father’s last days 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Daughters and sons should call home in gratitude for the relative insignificance of their own parents’ sins. Review: ‘Otherhood,’ despite the presence of Felicity Huffman and pals, disappoints 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z “The hour of assembly is 9 o’clock and the purpose is a ‘clean-up’ that will cause the events of the last two evenings to pale into insignificance.” The deadly race riot ‘aided and abetted’ by The Washington Post a century ago 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Whatever the Conservatives spend on Sunderland will dwindle into insignificance on the day Nissan finally follows Honda and Ford and announces it will halve the size of its plant there. Boris Johnson’s cash splurge is totally reckless. Yet it could win an election | Aditya Chakrabortty 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z This difference was reduced to statistical insignificance by the following June. Hospital and Time of Delivery May Affect Mother’s Health 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z It's certainly not a small amount of money, but the sum pales into insignificance in comparison to the costs of removing a fatberg by conventional means. War on fatbergs: Can this 21st Century peril be blitzed? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Football pales into insignificance at times like these. Leicester City helicopter crash: owner believed to have been on board – latest updates 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Furthermore, they point to the latest data release from the Kepler mission, in which new, state-of-the-art analytical methods caused the already borderline signs of the exomoon to fade to insignificance in the Kepler data. Astronomers Tiptoe Closer to Confirming First Exomoon 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z And yet climate change may be the best illustration of Trump’s insignificance. After Trump: The Donald in the rearview mirror 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z With a labor movement dwindling into insignificance — only 6.5 percent of private-sector workers are unionized — economists like Mr. Weil and Mr. Katz suggest that new institutions are needed to hold up the bottom half. Harvard Is Vaulting Workers Into the Middle Class With High Pay. Can Anyone Else Follow Its Lead? 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z We are left with more questions than answers as McAlpine chooses not to identify her subjects until the end credits, perhaps echoing one scientist’s observation on the sky’s immensity and our own comparable insignificance. Review: The sky above Chile comes alive in experimental documentary ‘Cielo’ 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z It was a modern children’s crusade, and it clearly pierced the feelings of apathy, helplessness and insignificance that many young Americans feel. Florida editorial roundup 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z It was a tragedy for each of them and their families, he said, but the numbers “pale into insignificance compared with the large number of children who are affected by neurodevelopmental disorders.” Zika epidemic sheds light on Brazil's 'invisible children' 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Instead, in a giddy bubble of insignificance, the young parties are bustling through the political motions, setting up party headquarters, creating logos and drafting bylaws. ‘Fireflies’ and ‘Ghosts’ in Cambodia Prop Up Facade of Real Election 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z You see that some decisions that seemed trivial when they were made proved immensely important, while others which seemed world-transforming quickly sank into insignificance. To survive our high-speed society, cultivate 'temporal bandwidth' | Alan Jacobs 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z But that incident and his litany of injuries faded into insignificance after he helped fire his country to a remarkable win, their first in nine months. Russia's Cheryshev erases years of misfortune with spectacular display 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z There is something about being wholly engrossed in the lives of your monkeys that is both beguiling and humbling—a gentle reminder of your own overall insignificance in the grand scheme of things. Life Among the Monkeys 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z My treatment, though, pales into insignificance compared with what my daughters do to their dad. My children have made me an online laughing stock | Joanna Moorhead 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Both believe to be operating out of love but in reality suffer from a deep-seated belief in their own insignificance, instilled in them since childhood. Can exploring the dark side in fiction go too far? Fuminori Nakamura's 'Cult X' presses the question 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Those insults pale into insignificance compared with the growing restrictions and threats faced by Chinese journalists, the subject of one of the most dispiriting reports of my time in Beijing. 'Every place you go, you are being watched': reporting from Xi's China 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z However, the achievements on the track paled into insignificance for him when he finally fulfilled his ambition and qualified as a doctor. Obituary: Roger Bannister 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z “Whoever thinks second-rate international participation is not so bad will find themselves in international insignificance - quicker than some think,” said Seifert, who called for more “beacons” of the league. Bayern dominance hurting Bundesliga and maybe the club, too 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Fear is the hidden through-line in Trump’s life – fear of weakness, of inadequacy, of failure, of criticism and of insignificance. Fear now rules Trump’s US. It’s what drives the president too | Tony Schwartz 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z That added another confirming layer of bias to their invisibility and their work’s perceived insignificance. Calendar Letters: How women artists get left out of art history 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z When I started out, Tasmania was still a metaphor for everything Australians hated about themselves – their convict past, environmental rapacity, murderous racism and general insignificance. Richard Flanagan: ‘Fiction is not a lie, but a truth, a necessary truth’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Something links the growing social inequality, the increasing powerlessness felt by so many, and this growing insignificance of individual souls. The corrosion of truth in these strange times is terrifying | Richard Flanagan 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z However, the savings could pale into insignificance if the numbers of people travelling by plane dropped. Pilotless plane tests face resistance - BBC News 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z The novelist James Fenimore Cooper, who in 1806 witnessed a total eclipse in upstate New York, recalled feeling “a humiliating, and, I trust, a profitable sense of my own utter insignificance.” What the Polarized U.S. Needs Is an Eclipse Fix 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z And then he’s off, waxing rhapsodic about the light, the symmetry, the electricity in the air, the feeling of cosmic insignificance. America’s greatest eclipse is coming, and this man wants you to see it 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Engaging in projective visualization, Epictetus believes, will make us appreciate the relative insignificance of the bad things that happen to us and will therefore prevent them from disrupting our tranquility. Ancient Philosophers Reveal 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happier 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The space in the middle is shrinking to insignificance. Is France's Socialist Party dead? - BBC News 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z For the first decade of its existence, it distinguished itself mostly by its insignificance. How Marine Le Pen played the media 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Continually patronized, underestimated or plainly ignored, Joe, Willie and Albert resemble the heroes of last year’s similarly themed “Hell or High Water” as they seek retribution for their financial woes and social insignificance. Review | ‘Going in Style’ keeps the comedy afloat with a pleasant, easygoing fizz 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z By comparison with that feat of willpower and dark arts, the story of Arsenal’s surrender faded into relative insignificance and Wenger’s bitter criticisms of the referee will now be of interest only to the authorities. Arsène Wenger has been living on borrowed time at Arsenal for too long | Richard Williams 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The city’s sugary spires and golden filigree look at once better and worse for their current day insignificance. Navigating Vienna’s Imperial Past — Through Pastries 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It does this by revealing to users their cosmic insignificance. How the Hitchhiker’s Guide can make the world a better place | Marcus O’Dair 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z "But my abuse paled into insignificance compared to some others." The child abuse scandal of the British children sent abroad - BBC News 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z The "excessive" fines were paltry to the point of insignificance compared to the damage that was done. Welcome Back, Wall Street. Now Pay Us Back. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z What the children, and their grandmother, felt was awe—that special sense of the vastness of nature, the universe, the cosmos, and our own insignificance in comparison. When Awe-Struck, We Feel Both Smaller and Larger 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z "The level of action now pales into insignificance compared to the Winter of Discontent in 1978-79," says Prof Gregor Gall from the University of Bradford. Are we facing a Christmas of Discontent? - BBC News 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The scene ends in a terrifying panorama of engineering that reduces the sole visible person to insignificance. Edward Burtynsky’s Epic Landscapes 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z They talked about the insignificance of material possessions in the big picture. City rallies around popular street musician injured in fire 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Yet all these pale into insignificance against the biggest issue of all: what sort of deal can Britain extract from its 27 EU partners? Britain’s European partners take a hard line on Brexit 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z "People take huge comfort in things like the cycle of nature being a thing that will continue to repeat, or looking at the sky and becoming aware of their own insignificance," she says. Why are Catholics so obsessed with death? - BBC News 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z But even as “Into the Inferno” invites us to marvel at our insignificance in the face of Mother Nature’s seething primordial firepit, Herzog, being Herzog, refuses to lose sight of the human element. Werner Herzog risks everything for the crater good in 'Into the Inferno' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z “Every other question, not excluding the Indian question pales into insignificance before the great Native question,” wrote Gandhi in the Indian Opinion. Protesters in Ghana Want a 'Racist' Gandhi Statue Removed 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z If they drop — as third party candidates tend to do — toward statistical insignificance, then Trump will need to win over a lot of undecideds who plainly don’t want to vote for him. How Donald Trump can win 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z In the Cessna, circling high above the savannah and gazing down on its extraordinary and complex ecosystem, I do indeed feel humbled: a speck of insignificance in the enormity and wonder of nature. Gentle giants: on the frontline of the battle to save Africa's elephants 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Everything that my family and I went through paled into insignificance. I was a refugee boy from Baghdad – don't play immigration 'fear card' 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z In this sense, as Mr Kausikan noted elsewhere in his lectures, “the very insignificance of the territories in dispute in the South China Sea may well be part of their attraction to Beijing.” Dialogue of the deaf 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Even a thirteen-year-old knows the thrill and terror of his own insignificance. “Maybe It Was the Distance” 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z “No,” I say, embarrassed by the insignificance of my problems. Among the Healers 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Notwithstanding the insignificance of verbal commitments, new Terrapins coach DJ Durkin is constructing quite an impressive collection. SNYDER: Even top college coaches show there’s a nasty side in recruiting 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z The narrator spies a onetime famous actress across the room at a party — “the debris of a great star,” he calls her, instantly enveloping her in the sadness of insignificance. The questions I never asked my friend before his death 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z To some, Ryan’s repeated calls for Republicans to “raise our gaze” and his frequent attempts to position himself as the GOP’s deep thinker are starting to give off an air of ivory tower insignificance. Is the honeymoon over for House Speaker Paul Ryan? 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Concerns about the smart lighting not working could pale into insignificance next to the wider question about what data all the hidden sensors around a building are collecting. Will tomorrow's smart office be a saviour or a spy? - BBC News 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z "That game pales into insignificance now compared to this." Six Nations 2016: Scotland's biggest game ever, says Andy Nicol 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z It was nearly impossible for these writers to discover a new faith, political or religious, to replace Communism and its power to erase the sense of insignificance that awaits any sentient person. Why Leftists Go Right 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z And men don’t talk about death, either, because it is about fear and insignificance. The questions I never asked my friend before his death 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z But they didn’t fear the sea in the same way, perhaps because to live on an isolated island in the Pacific is to never forget one’s own insignificance, the utter temporality of life. A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z My father was an astronomer so I grew up with a very scientific grasp of the universe and our insignificance. Does Climbing Big Mountains Prepare You for Fighting Cancer? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z They benefit from the exposure of a busy marathon calendar, but the cash on offer to them still pales into insignificance when compared with other sports like soccer and basketball. Digital marketing helps Adidas cut ties to sports bodies 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Even the £130 million that Google is paying now pales into insignificance relative to the billions in sales that the company generates in the United Kingdom, its second biggest market after the United States. Google’s UK tax deal is a joke at our expense 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z That pales almost into insignificance when compared with the 13,700 bird strikes in America last year, or the 4,000 or so reports of laser pointers being directed at aircraft. Suddenly, there are drones everywhere 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z But the soft power successes of the year pale into insignificance alongside China's tremendous year in hard power. China power audit: The hard and the soft - BBC News 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But these problems fade into insignificance compared to how sharply the two versions contradict each other. They are all complete frauds: Constitutional conservatives? The right’s big lie collapses in Benghazi lunacy 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Were either to happen, it may make the see-saw of the last two court sessions pale into insignificance. US supreme court: conservatives set to retake reins after year of liberal wins 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Despite the relative insignificance of the changing faces on our currency — by the way, who knew $20-bill poster boy Andrew Jackson pioneered the hairstyle popularized by Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter? — the candidates’ answers were revealing. The money question during the GOP debates 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z But that is not going to be the legacy of this Elizabeth, who has reigned over Britain’s long transition from empire to Commonwealth, from world power to relative international insignificance. Queen Elizabeth II, 23,226 Days Later, Becomes Britain’s Longest-Serving Monarch 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z If you regain control of the border, the number of birthright babies fades to insignificance. The immigration swamp 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z We may at times suffer from poor relationships or experience insignificance, disempowerment, or purposelessness. How Mentors Shape Moguls, CEOs, Celebrities, And The Next Generation Of Leaders 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z A meditation on the insignificance of power, it’s the story of how Napoleon escapes from St Helena, leaving a double behind him, hoping to join a secret organisation that will return him to imperial glory. Best holiday reads 2015 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z If you truly believe these claims with any degree of seriousness, then you are bound to believe that everything else retreats into insignificance before them. A Point of View: Why are opponents of gay marriage so sure they're right? - BBC News 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z They surge, stop, weaken and fade into insignificance after 20 years or so. From 7/7 to Isis: how the terrorist threat to the UK has evolved 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z More than one person told me that the fastest route to total insignificance would be to cover issues of personal morality the way the US media does. Can Politico make Brussels sexy? | Gideon Lewis-Kraus 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He feels excluded, and partly chooses to be excluded, because it “gave his drift and insignificance meaning in his own eyes.” Nothing Happens. Everything Happens. 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z THE complexities of human courtship pale into insignificance when compared with those of snails. Till death us do dart 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Using Garcia’s theory, Page said, any actor, no matter the insignificance of their role, might be granted unprecedented power over producers, studios, and distributors in a way we’d consider unfair. A controversial YouTube video could create a crazy new form of copyright 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The West’s efforts, though, pale into insignificance compared to those of Russia. Russian Spies Return to Europe in 'New Cold War' But a decline in investment and facilities saw the sport slip into insignificance. New Indian Soccer League Tries Glamour Approach 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Either way, 1% is significant in its insignificance – that it bears so little import to this population. The Future CEO's Answer To 'Profit Or Purpose?' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The nastiness of the remark is outweighed only by the insignificance of the “get.” Review: ‘The News Sorority,’ on Sawyer, Couric and Amanpour, by Sheila Weller Arguments over which year was the best, however, pale into insignificance when compared to the argument about whether Leeds or London's Notting Hill is home to the oldest Caribbean carnival. Carnival cure for homesickness 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z But that problem pales into insignificance against the real point here. Dumb Public Policy Suggestion Of The Day; Valenti's Free Tampons For All 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z "My tears pale into insignificance compared to those of the people in Gaza, who are suffering intolerably," he said. UN spokesman cries on camera over Gaza school attack 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z As alarmed as we might be over relative economic hardship, this problem shrinks into insignificance compared with Japan’s overall population trends, often referred to without much hyperbole as “demographic collapse.” Child Poverty In Japan? Relatively Speaking, Yes. But The Real Crisis Is The 'Birth Dearth' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z No one would remember that he put a Palestinian there, further emphasising the irrelevance and insignificance of the reason he was put there in the first place. Stories from an occupation: the Israelis who broke silence 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Where street were once divided along political lines, today ANC advertisements line the grimy hostel walls alongside pictures of Chief Buthelezi, who still heads the IFP, which has now faded into national insignificance. South Africa's struggle veterans hope for new lives 2014-05-06T00:18:37Z The cost of monthly insurance payments pales into insignificance compared with the unexpected costs of living after a flood. Floods: 'Living in a disaster zone' 2014-02-15T02:32:10Z He said he believed the card cost about £2,000 to produce the cards, which "pales into insignificance" against the rent owed. Council Christmas card 'an insult' 2013-12-18T10:24:54Z This rendering of people with the flick of a brush was intended to demonstrate man's insignificance before the power of nature, but it also mirrored a political reality that has endured to this day. All for One: China's New Deal 2013-11-23T03:19:58Z Will they empower a few superstar professors while reducing to insignificances those other teachers whose courses attract only a smattering of followers? Lessons from online learning 2013-08-28T14:01:05Z And both of those pale into insignificance against the horsemeat scandal of January and February, which arguably did more damage to Tesco – four of their products were involved – than any other major retailer. Cheap food, poor farms, public anger... so what is Tesco's Philip Clarke going to do about it? 2013-07-20T23:06:11Z He memorably described the Earth as looking like a "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam", such was its apparent insignificance in the vastness of space. Wave! Cassini sets up shot of Earth 2013-07-19T09:43:43Z He observed that the playwright Eugène Ionesco, a leading light in the Theater of the Absurd, was “basically a moralist” in his depiction of the insignificance of existence. Rev. Dr. Roger L. Shinn, Theologian, Dies at 96 2013-06-02T00:58:48Z As a result, many Anglophones fear they are being squeezed into insignificance. Language wars rage in Quebec 2013-05-06T23:35:28Z In such a world, there would still be innovative entrepreneurs, but the parasitic role of a purely financial class reaping immense profits from the manipulation of paper would dwindle to insignificance. Austerity never works: Deficit hawks are amoral — and wrong 2013-05-05T16:00:00Z These are comical figures of such insignificance and desperate need to elevate themselves at the public expense that their election is not just clearly ill-advised, but is almost unimaginable. Only Anthony Weiner can succeed Michael Bloomberg as New York mayor 2013-04-23T12:30:00Z The other main contenders experienced varying fortunes: Norman shot a 77, but that paled into insignificance in comparison to Woosnam's debut Masters round of 81. Remembering Sandy Lyle's victory in the 1988 Masters at Augusta 2013-04-04T10:49:43Z Perhaps the lesson here is that job seekers should reflect on their own relative insignificance, and strive to convey modesty, restraint, and vulnerability in the interview process. How to Ace an Interview: Feel Powerful 2013-03-26T10:45:00.380Z Meanwhile, Friday's Sun front page actually had a very strong news line – if true — on the Pistorius story, but it almost literally paled into insignificance next to that most provocative of bikini shots. Reeva Steenkamp's corpse was in the morgue, her body was on the Sun's front page 2013-02-15T13:13:51Z Sections of the press and Ukip leader Nigel Farage rant incessantly about the alleged influence of Brussels over our lives, but that pales into insignificance compared to the unaccountable power of the large financial institutions. Forget Europe – the markets hold the real unaccountable power 2013-01-24T19:30:01Z But the story of Facebook's oscillating valuations paled into insignificance compared with the row about the price that Hewlett-Packard, the troubled US computer giant, paid for software firm Autonomy. Lessons the tech world learned in 2012 2012-12-30T00:05:06Z Ohio State’s Unbeaten Season Leads Nowhere COLUMBUS, Ohio — ’s season of insignificance because of N.C.A.A. penalties ended in perfection under its first-year coach, Urban Meyer. Ohio State 26, Michigan 21: Ohio State’s Unbeaten Season Leads Nowhere 2012-11-24T22:41:55Z But the GOP’s newfound insignificance in this state legislature isn’t its greatest worry. Is California's Democratic Supermajority an Omen for the Rest of the U.S.? 2012-11-20T10:50:25Z All this concerning the scrolls was a blip that fades into insignificance with the passage of time. Frank Moore Cross, Biblical Scholar and Dead Sea Scrolls Interpreter, Dies at 91 2012-10-20T03:24:50Z But the debt burdens pale into insignificance if we add the implicit governmental commitments to welfare and pensions. Political risk returns to the markets 2012-09-18T23:03:41Z In this case Birney is well aware of the controversy over interpreting pervasive transcription and the possible insignificance of a DNA binding site. Reports of Junk DNA's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated 2012-09-07T15:45:34Z With the American and German economies now showing signs of growth, the danger of Britain "sliding back to insignificance" is real. Yeo's runway taunt is big-willy politics, and that is the most dangerous politics of all 2012-08-28T19:30:01Z It was as if the nation were emphasizing its insignificance, not so much a sceptered isle, in Shakespeare’s words, as much as a wee scattering of rocks in the North Atlantic. The London Games Rock On in Closing Ceremony 2012-08-13T05:35:31Z What few defenses their bodies mustered were pummeled into insignificance. Op-Ed Contributor: Imagine a World Without AIDS 2012-07-28T03:26:19Z If we simply cut off drastic measures at the last 3 months of life, I believe most of the issue fades into insignificance. Monetary policy: Bernanke the unready 2012-07-17T14:57:06Z Thankfully, the smells that assault your nostrils will fade into insignificance next to the cornucopia of exciting sights that unfold before thee. East London's best nightlife 2012-07-07T23:03:08Z However, that feat pales into insignificance compared to Spain's achievement such is the pace and the demands of the modern game. Spain routs Italy 4-0 in Euro 2012 soccer championship 2012-07-02T11:02:51Z A proposal to overhaul the country’s labor laws–one of Monti’s early flagship proposals–has yet to be scheduled for a vote, despite having been watered down to near insignificance by parliamentary dealing. Italy's Mario Monti: Dented Armor But Still the Only Knight to the Rescue 2012-06-21T09:05:22Z But these problems pale into insignificance compared with the impact of subsidies. Green growth: Shoots, greens and leaves 2012-06-14T15:06:55Z It was a fabled greatness that faded before her present insignificance. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z No man should dream of solving a great problem unless he is so thoroughly saturated with his subject that everything else sinks into comparative insignificance. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z The grandeur of its venerable ruins and the gigantic proportions of its architecture reduced to insignificance the boasted monuments of other nations. The Black Man, the Father of Civilization Proven by Biblical History 2012-04-24T02:00:16.783Z How did all jack-knife and hand-saw architecture sink into insignificance in contrast with this house in the solitudes of the great forest! A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z The fencing dispute had now sunk into insignificance. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z But even these dangers dwindle into insignificance when we contemplate the main result of an annexation of Afghanistan. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z In thus aiding to establish the royal power over the newly-acquired provinces, it was contributing to erect an authority which was destined in the end to reduce it to comparative insignificance. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Suddenly there arose a quarrel, the insignificance of its cause showing the tension which existed and the eagerness of all classes of the clergy to repress the growing influence of the Mendicants. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z However, as its insignificance represents a gain of some hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling per annum to the Administration, it should be worthy of a passing thought at any rate. Hoyle's Games Modernized 2012-04-15T02:00:05.927Z That nations should be weakened, depopulated, and ultimately sink into insignificance, is the natural result of a development of the military spirit of a country and the love of glory. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z This is a spot where a man feels his own insignificance, and may well learn to be humble. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z The geologist's notion of the word "recent" comprehends a span of time of beginning so remote that the oldest records of human history fade to insignificance by comparison. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The notes of alarm and preparation rang along the coast from Maine to Louisiana, and before the mysterious shadow of the gigantic coming evil, party animosities sunk into insignificance. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z All his other claims to renown, however, sink into insignificance when compared with his work as the reviver of Jewish hopes for a restoration to political autonomy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The Church has often prospered by her Dan-like insignificance; the world not troubling itself to make war upon her. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z The mutiny just described sinks into insignificance before that which is about to be recounted, the greatest mutiny of English history—that of the Nore. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z It does not deny the popularly assumed relation to "spirits" good or evil, but affirms a direct relation to the Infinite Spirit, which reduces all angels and demons to insignificance save as "ministers." The Making of the New Testament 2012-03-30T02:00:20.917Z There are virtues very highly estimated in a rude civilisation which sink into comparative insignificance in an organised society, while conversely, virtues that were deemed secondary in the first become primary in the other. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z Eliot labored within call of Boston, while the heroic Brebeuf faced the ghastly perils of the western wilderness; and the wanderings of Brainerd sink into insignificance compared with those of the devoted Rasles. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z It had become such a great and glorious fact that everything else had sunk into insignificance. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z I repeat that he should rather consult his own feelings and by following them contribute his modest share toward sending some of the present "moderns" back into their deserved obscurity and insignificance. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance—in our comparison of their dim and narrow existence with the glorious possibilities of that human nature which they share. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z It is not so small as to allow the visitor to feel dull, or so large as to permit him to become conscious of his own insignificance. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z In faith she rested upon the "unseen," and the world of things "seen" around her shrunk into insignificance. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z He would by his own endeavours rise to such heights that even the Count's own position would pale into insignificance. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z He cursed the barriers of caste, the cold pride of these aristocrats, even his own pallid insignificance--since he had as hungry a heart as panted in the breast of the handsomest dandy. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z These are the men who keep the Church from falling into insignificance, but they are not essentially hers. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Just makes a man feel like soaring, though never before so conscious of his littleness and downright insignificance. The Auto Boys' Quest 2012-03-12T03:00:25.647Z Lucretius was impressed with man's insignificance in the universe; Horace, with man's folly. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z It indicates the manner of the development of many of these songs, and shows something of the insignificance of the words on the minds of the singers. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z This will strengthen you to the endurance of that which nothing but absolute insignificance can escape—calumny. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z His explosive revolutionism foreshadowed acute attacks of despair amidst Austrian opportunism, which from time to time became terrified at its own insignificance. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Their whole composition appears languid, even their imitation of the head of the school does not please, as it is either deficient, or overdone, or falls into insignificance. The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century 2012-02-25T03:00:10.400Z Here three demi-lions are conjoined with three sterns of antient ships—a composition compared with which the griffin, cockatrice, and every other hybrid of a herald’s imagination sinks into insignificance. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z The fact, however, of its having disappeared, might perhaps be urged as a sign of the insignificance of the edition. The Oregon Territory Its History and Discovery 2012-02-22T03:00:27.207Z The cod and mackerel fisheries have dwindled into like insignificance, say Marblehead, Gloucester, and all fishing ports along shore. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z It relapsed into its old condition of modest insignificance, nor ever recalled the fact that a reverend canon had waltzed within its walls. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z The so-called Minor Prophets of the Old Testament owed that designation to the brevity, rather than to the insignificance of their utterances. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z When the party presently reached the house, and the few servants who remained came out obsequiously to receive them, the boy felt his loneliness and sudden insignificance still more keenly. A Little Wizard 2012-02-15T03:00:38.160Z It makes one feel his own littleness and insignificance. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z It had now begun to emerge from the insignificance of a fishing village, and to assume a place among the number of maritime towns. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The bewitching O'Kik�, as if by magic, shrank down into her natural insignificance. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The proud mausoleum, and the turgid epitaph, sink into insignificance beside this humble burst of maternal love—"My poor child!" Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time 2012-02-13T03:00:18.260Z I have heard you discourse upon the insignificance of man in a way to put many preachers to shame. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Had the son of Sir Alexander Moncton lived, you would have retained your original insignificance. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z He had some idea of the vastness of the stars—of the astronomical spaces—of the insignificance of this world. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z This society, we are told, comprised both men and women, who met in separate assemblies, for the common supposition of the insignificance of the latter sex in the east is erroneous. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z A disturbing factor is within it that makes the thunderous knocks of old pale into insignificance. The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife 2012-02-05T03:00:11.420Z It was growing dusk when they drank the toast in the big shadowy room, and, as he glanced at his companions, Jimmy was momentarily troubled with a sense of his and their insignificance. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The intriguing villain in this kind of play sinks to insignificance, and the moving force is likely to be a humanitarian benefactor who rescues the lost fortune or saves the heroine from the hated marriage. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z When it comes, you will count yourself as nought; you will realise your own insignificance, and above all, be ready to make any sacrifice for her sake. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z The very insignificance of the figures made her position worse. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z One, wun, adj. single in number, position, or kind: undivided: the same: a certain, some, implying a name unknown or denoting insignificance or contempt, as 'one Guy Fawkes, a Spaniard!'—adjs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Not even the insignificance of an Under Secretaryship had come to requite him for his tedious years of service. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Indeed, as he leaned upon the rail, with its darkness enfolding him, he was troubled by a sense of his own insignificance and a longing to escape from that abode of fear and shadow. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z Thus, the sheer abundance of planets profoundly impacts the nature of our exploration of the universe and our quest to understand our own significance or insignificance. An Abundance of Exoplanets Changes our Universe 2012-01-20T18:15:00.250Z His insignificance gave him impunity, and purchased our silence. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z It is now a place of comparative insignificance. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z There you are--out, your dreams dissolved, your ambitions stopped, yourself miserable, and your presence in this lobby an insignificance. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z And this is so much more the case on account of the insignificance of the part played by women in Chinese life. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Man, and his petty passions, his childish hopes and fears, seemed somehow strangely dwarfed into utter insignificance in the midst of nature's impassive, inscrutable calm. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z France saw a unique opportunity for breaking up the Austrian dominions, and reducing the portion reserved to the young Queen to comparative insignificance. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z An astounded pause followed, and then an uproar rose that cast the former sound into insignificance. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z He looked back upon the days of his insignificance, and his heart was buoyant within him. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Thus here as everywhere it arises from the contrast between the insignificance and dependence of ourselves as individuals, as phenomena of will, and the consciousness of ourselves as pure subject of knowing. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z So, too, in the moral order, all those aspects of human life which sway our deepest emotions are but “a murmur of gnats in the gloom,” if regard be had to our comparative insignificance. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Beside that conception the issue of battles and the fate of kings fall into comparative insignificance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The great need of man is for expression; in places such as these his own insignificance is forced upon him by the overwhelming might of primeval forces. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Love, hate and fear experienced sudden intensification, or abrupt dwindling into nothing; the familiar everyday emotions, commonplace daily acts, suffered exaggerated enlargement, or reduction into insignificance, that threatened the stability of his personality. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z But these vexations, distressing as they were, sank into insignificance before the new blow which threatened the royal power. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z The thought which seems to oppress the seer is the insignificance of everything when compared to a standard—ever conceivable and ever actual—above it. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z All the transformation scenes ever they had witnessed dwindled into insignificance compared to it. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z "The wars of the past will sink into comparative insignificance when future historians compile statistics of coming conflicts among the nations of the earth." Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Pre-eminently this feeling arises from contrast between the immensities of space and time and the apparent insignificance of man. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z You see, in his very insignificance lay his strength. The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure 2011-12-13T03:00:23.197Z He used to describe himself as a “person of gloomy insignificance and unsocial monomania.” Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z She looked steadily and long at the figure of which the noble head redeemed the vulgar insignificance of costume and posture. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z 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 The pursuit of partridge, quail and hare—even the approaching avero—faded into insignificance, and these huge birds monopolized all attention. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z His rights, his claim on her, which until now had held a paramount place in his thoughts, assumed an insignificance which rendered them negligible beside her supreme right to the direction of her own life. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z Although it had shrunk into shallow insignificance,—with much beside,—a faint halo of the romance with which he had endued this early scene of his adventures still clung to the spot. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z On account of its insignificance, the mistletoe was forgotten by the goddess, and of this Loki made an instrument of destruction. Norway 2011-11-29T03:00:15.103Z The question of insignificance we have already had to deal with in discussing errors. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z The ruin of agriculture during the war had reduced the old families to insignificance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The little painted crucifixes by the wayside indeed afflict one by their impotence and insignificance. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Lies, thievery, murder—one by one these suggestions of outlawry mentally passed in review and sank into insignificance before this sinister word—betrayal. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z And to him it was a power so overwhelmingly terrific and transcendent in all its aspects, that it defied description and demonstrated the insignificance and impotence of man. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z In view of the ravages of the terrible monster, over-multiplication, all other riddles sink into insignificance. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z Moreover, as it rarely wanders far from its heath-clad home, it would probably, if it enjoyed the privilege of insignificance, be abundant in all the extensive waste lands of Britain. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Yet, according to her wont, her personality was the only thing that counted; it reduced all externals to a proper insignificance. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z Her anger against them was quite serious, and sank into proper insignificance only when her task was done. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The woman seemed all at once to become stunted, to shrink into sheer physical insignificance. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z All my impressions of that Boston season, however, sink into insignificance compared to that of my first public appearance. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z And that your Majesty, in spite of my poverty and insignificance, receives me with much honour and acknowledges me as sovereign in my kingdom, fills my heart with joy. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z They enjoyed the contemplation of ocean's majesty and grandeur, with a humble sense of their own insignificance, and with a vague longing to share in its divine, immortal power. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z "Mrs. Macmathers, would you like to be possessed of wealth compared to which the wealth of the Vanderbilts, the Rothschilds, the Mackays, the Goulds, would shrink into insignificance?" Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z Here greatness has been swallowed up in insignificance, not in desolation. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z All the petty annoyances he had suffered from Garrett and his undesirable clique sank into insignificance in the face of this overwhelming calamity. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z The accidental causes that had temporarily given the Huguenots an undue influence in the State ceasing to operate, they appeared from a formidable party suddenly to shrink into insignificance. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z Giant’s Cave Sunday is still observed, but the custom has dwindled into insignificance, the ‘shaking bottles’ carried by the children at that season being the only remains of what it has been. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z For the first time I felt the narrowness of my life and my own insignificance. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z The resonating pipe or chamber when suitably accommodated to the reed greatly modifies the tone by reinforcing the harmonics proper to itself, the others sinking into comparative insignificance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z With him the supernatural was paramount, and in its light all prosaic, squalid, unheroic circumstances sank into insignificance. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z And should such a thing come to pass, the boys would be in for an experience before which all others must pale into insignificance. Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country 2011-10-21T02:00:18.430Z The other instances sink into insignificance, and at most prove only that Andros was a passionate man, who did not hesitate to express uncomplimentary opinions very freely. A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. 2011-10-19T02:00:19.497Z Brooke recognized that he had deserved this, but he had never felt the same utter sense of insignificance that he did just then. A Damaged Reputation 2011-10-17T02:00:16.117Z She looked so slight, so fragile, to shoulder a man's work in the world, he felt a sudden shame at the insignificance of what he had done. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z But as all human greatness is evanescent, the fame of the family for charity once unparalleled in the annals of Bengal has long since dwindled into insignificance. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z He stands perpetually in the vestibule of truth, opening on the fields of immensity, strewed with objects of reality, before the blaze of whose overpowering grandeur the throne and empire of fancy dwindle into insignificance. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Thus far had the Reform movement proceeded, when, in 1848, the incidents of a great political revolution crowded every other issue into comparative insignificance. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z He continued in this vein, dwelling at length upon the consequences such an example might bring in its wake, and advised to keep New Orleans in such insignificance as to tempt no attack. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z The greatest political work of Caius was that in which he did the least; and his legislative successes sink into insignificance by the side of the real grandeur of his extensive failure. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z Through all these years attendance thus to dance, To gain a public insignificance! A Century of Emblems 2011-10-08T02:00:24.280Z Then he returned to Apple in 1997 and made a series of decisive choices that steered the company away from insignificance back into the center of the digital computing and entertainment world. Steve Jobs Demolished The "Myth Of Choice" 2011-10-06T12:44:30Z The Worshipper of False Gods.—It is a commonplace of foreign criticism that the free-born American is insatiate for money, and that everything else pales into insignificance before the diameter of the mighty dollar. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z The building itself, however, sinks into insignificance before the crowd of associations that stir the blood at its very name. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z With a screen as beautiful as this, such things pale into insignificance. Is Samsung's Galaxy S II an iPhone Killer? 2011-10-05T16:43:52Z The seven wonders of the world all fade into insignificance in comparison with one great fact in modern government, a fact so fundamental that we seldom think of it, namely, the great fact of taxation. Bill's School and Mine A Collection of Essays on Education 2011-10-05T02:00:19.377Z An appalling crash, against which the noise of the fusillade paled into insignificance, told that a bomb dropped from the leading sea-plane had landed almost in the centre of the fort. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z Tell me, is your insignificance attracted to mine also?” The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z By a voluntary submission to the tyrant's caprices, they retained the high privilege of his smile and favour, and built the bulwark of their safety on their own personal insignificance! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z But he was good-natured; and that, and his utter insignificance, got him along tolerably well, for no one ever thought it worth while to be offended at his folly and self-sufficiency. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z The Hebrew psalmist feels the insignificance of man compared with the infinitude of the heavens. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z She had taken some little pains, we say little pains because of the insignificance of the result, to present a genteel appearance to our friend William, and had made a hasty toilet. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z Of late years, the market has dwindled into insignificance, but the parish is the most extensive in Derbyshire; its length is more than 20 miles, and its breadth upwards of eight. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z Even while he spoke the words which would have once wrung his heart, he was visited by that strange flashing sense of unreality, of the insignificance and transitoriness of Angelica's existence. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z She was lithe and graceful, and as she thrummed on the guitar with her slender, brown fingers her ragged dress and rough shoes faded into insignificance. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z We will promise you, Mr. Collins, never for one instant to forget either Mr. Darcy's exalted position or our own insignificance. Pride and Predjudice, a play 2011-09-17T02:00:30.190Z I must have lost my senses, certainly, to so ill appreciate my own insignificance! The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:28.670Z Divest, for a moment, the title of Novel from its stationary standard of insignificance, and say! The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z They sank more and more into insignificance, until the revival of spiritual life, a.d. 1816-1821, brought them into prominence again. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Beside it the ill effects of war would pale into insignificance. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z From that height all questions of external observances dwindle into insignificance, and all question of sacramental efficacy drops away of itself. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Yet another century, and Europe itself may sink into comparative insignificance. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z He made this honest king a very long speech indeed, laudatory of his own exceeding greatness, and of the comparative insignificance of every other king and chief in creation. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z All other instruments sink into insignificance in comparison with the Violin, because they cannot do this. Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.337Z Beside it, the white immigrant tide of the past century would pale into insignificance. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z When one is facing serious issues the smaller concerns of life assume a proportionate insignificance; and the appearance of one’s actions ceases to disturb the mind confident that its motives are right. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z Two hours later Mirapolis the frenetic had a new thrill, a shock so electrifying that the rumor of the railroad's halting decision sank into insignificance and was forgotten. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z All earthly things would sink into insignificance, and life would become a desperate struggle to save and absolve the perishing; real belief would end its days in a lunatic asylum. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z The trick was purely instinctive, and indicated both her own overcharged memory and the insignificance of the unit, among many, whom she was addressing. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z Lady Marabout bowed her head under a grief, before which the worries so great before, the schemes but so lately so precious, the small triumphs just now so all-absorbing, shrank away into their due insignificance. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z He had no time to debate on thin-spun theories of the universe and life, and even social problems sunk into insignificance. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z A bursting, bubbling old gentleman, with quarter-deck gestures, round rolling eyes, and a head like a pineapple, his sudden elevation to the throne after fifty-six years of utter insignificance had almost sent him crazy. Queen Victoria 2011-08-23T02:00:32.007Z Everything sinks into insignificance in presence of this great duty, or rather life has no other object. The Pros and Cons of Vivisection 2011-08-23T02:00:31.033Z No one left him oppressed by his enormous talent and by one's own insignificance. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Hook this up with the racist chanting directed at Marcelo and all the virtuosity on the field retreats into insignificance. Jos? Mourinho turned to violence against Bar?a to mask his own failure 2011-08-18T16:31:28Z It overwhelmed his mind with an impression more commonly attributed to astronomy—viz., the entire insignificance of the individual in relation to physical magnitudes. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Were he to be placed in some great city, side by side with the men whose trade was gold, his little all would sink into the utmost insignificance. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z His ears were deaf to such names as Sidney, Gilbert, Champernoun, Ralegh, names which time has set at their proper value, and against which Ascham's noble primroses sink into their proper insignificance. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z No doubt Lichfield owed to its insignificance as a city the immunity which it again enjoyed while all the neighbouring country was being pillaged. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z There were many other women at court who might well have passed for beautiful, but before the dazzling charms of Aurelia, they faded away into utter insignificance. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z The crow sings as sweetly as the nightingale if no one is listening, and importance is no better than insignificance if there is no one “there to see.” Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period 2011-08-08T02:00:20.193Z That incident paled into insignificance as Anthony Stokes provided the definitive intervention. Aberdeen 0-1 Celtic 2011-08-07T15:06:38Z While Kent sank into political insignificance the Kentish mission made one great advance, and then ended in failure. The English Church in the Middle Ages 2011-08-01T02:00:14.773Z When he began, Wood remembers, this period had “a reputation for dreariness and insignificance,” as “the most boring part of American history to study and teach.” Gordon S. Wood, Historian of the American Revolution 2011-07-22T20:44:19Z He merely shuts the pulpit-door, and sinks back into his native insignificance. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z Changes of condition are not estimated as they pass, and when they have passed, many never look back to calculate their magnificence or insignificance. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z They dared not even raise their eyes longingly towards them, but they could not bear their mutual comparisons with them, and in their insignificance no longer satisfied each other. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z Perhaps again we think that anything like presumption or self-importance was incompatible with Shakespeare’s sense of the ridiculous, his sublime common-sense, and his feeling of man’s insignificance. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z It will thus be seen that the Apennines of the earth sink into insignificance in comparison with their gigantic namesakes on the moon. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z Aristophanes represented the whole Republic,—gods, heroes, priests, legislators, poets—all these would have been in the dust, pummelled into insignificance, had Euripides had his way. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z I tried to explain finance to him, and particularly the insignificance of the government's relation to the intrinsic value of gold coin, but my words made no impression upon his mind. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z You would know that you must be loved differently from the commonplace girls with whom people can only trifle, whose insignificance renders all serious conversation impossible. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z She displayed some emotion,--only the emotion of anger, 'tis true; but as enthusiasm is always passionate, so passion will sometimes seem enthusiasm, and lend a kind of nimbus to insignificance. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z Cepheus, however, sinks into insignificance in comparison with its neighbor Cassiopeia, but that constellation belongs rather to the autumn sky, and we shall pass it by here. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z The Power everywhere visible in the universe, pervading everything, in all things from the atom to the sun, making man feel his utter helplessness and insignificance, requires no further demonstration. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z When he does next return to the southern hemisphere, the popularity of his profession will still pale into insignificance compared to the sport Day briefly indulged in at the end of a practice round. The Open 2011: Jason Day getting closer to his major breakthrough 2011-07-12T22:00:02Z He will feel his littleness, his insignificance, his utter lack of importance, more forcibly perhaps than ever before. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z Born as I was under an unlucky star, my insignificance nearly overthrew the peace that was so precariously kept. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z This wreck of a "storm" of human license is terrible—so terrible that the effects of the convulsions of nature, the tempest, the tornado and even the earthquake, sink into insignificance beside them. The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 2011-07-08T02:00:16.223Z Illustration: Belle Mellor Against Europe's problems then ours pale into insignificance. Any new Marshall plan will founder in the minds of Europe's hesitant leaders 2011-07-05T20:30:00Z Kean had some wonderful moments, then relapsed into dulness and insignificance. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Downs stretch on either side of the tiny village and frown down upon it, making its insignificance more marked and its little cottages and little church look like toys. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z A Philistine is a lazy, much-speaking, more-asking, nothing-daring man; such a one who makes the small great, and the great small, because in the great he feels his littleness and his insignificance. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z Once initiated, he is able to effect results, by comparison with which the glory and the honors reaped by successful soldiers or great discoverers sink into insignificance. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z It was a long letter dealing with the business of the camps, but the one paragraph which had made the letter important threw all the rest into insignificance. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z Since it was not fulfilled, however, it represents one of the best evidences that we have for the insignificance of premonitory or telepathic dreams. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z The Tshomanè clan, which is located in the ’Mqanduli district, Tembuland, is now of comparative insignificance, but in the eighteenth century it stood at the head of a tribe of considerable strength and importance. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z He is a melancholy example of a student scathed in his career; and who has, from one unfortunate hour, sunk continually deeper and deeper into the depths of misery and insignificance. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z All that has been said of the influence of the white population of this country, as connected with our own Indians, sinks into insignificance, as compared with these astounding facts. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z There is a kind of comfort, after all, in insignificance. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z Lost in wonder of her art, beside it her lowly position in life paled into insignificance. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z It inculcated the insignificance and hollowness of love. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z In such a system as this, the earth shrinks into insignificance. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z A murmur of applause followed this rebuke, and the Lord of Orbitello was fain to shrink back into an insignificance, from which it would have been better for him never to have emerged. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z If Frederick had not created a state, he had raised it from a position bordering on insignificance to one not far from the front in the European system. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Compared to the joys that had been hers, they paled to insignificance. Marjorie Dean High School Senior 2011-06-06T02:00:09.407Z The setter pups paled into insignificance, and a dozen times a day he would remark to Ivans that it was "the darndest, cutest, little customer he ever saw." Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z I have, in the course of my travels, visited many grand concerts and operas, but their most solemn and sacred effects are dwarfed into absolute insignificance compared with that of this impromptu performance. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z Her hair was black and straight and coming down, but when your eyes once got to her face her clothes paled into insignificance, and Molly, for one, never gave them another thought. Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days 2011-05-27T02:00:15.860Z In contemplating him all others sink into comparative insignificance. Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z He raged inwardly as he remembered how clearly the girl had let him see his own insignificance in her estimation compared with Reivers. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z Yet all the gifts of fortune sank into insignificance before that vexing, unanswered Why? Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z The flight to Varennes was an irreparable error; for during the king’s absence and until his return the insignificance of the royal power became apparent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The inherent cunning of this blood sucking money power would pale to insignificance the most diabolical deeds of the prince of darkness. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z All other Chambers of Commerce I have met, sink into desuetude and insignificance when compared with that of Cleveland. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z "This is a very important event," said Theodore, looking over his cravat with his House-of-Commons air, and indicating by his tone that the fate of Aunt Pauline was a matter of comparative insignificance. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z Thus was the name of Braathen to be lifted from the potato-patch of vulgar insignificance to the gardens of rank and "quality." Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z That very circumstance surely points to the overwhelming importance of conscious, intelligent Life, and the insignificance of lifeless matter in comparison with it. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z The vocals are largely unintelligible throughout "Deep Sky Objects," serving as additional disorienting elements that complement the feelings of narcotic bewilderment and cosmic insignificance that bands of this type tend to elicit. Rock out with your Erlenmeyer flask out: 10 random songs inspired by science [Video] 2011-04-22T18:45:05.457Z The paved streets, the parks, the golf links, even Frank James, sink into comparative insignificance compared with the natural beverages of the place. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z It seemed as if the overwhelming misery of that silent and deadly indictment had weighed down all other thoughts, until they sank into complete insignificance. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z His position is one of anomalous insignificance and curious uncertainty. Congressional Government A Study in American Politics 2011-04-15T02:00:18.863Z If their cause were twice as good as it is, and if the men who sustain it were fourfold as able, the press of the Party would reduce it to insignificance and contempt. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z All day they lingered in the quaint, charming town and, under the spell of traditions and memories, their own identities seemed to fade into insignificance. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Immensely flattered by being suddenly lifted to the status of a priesthood, all the budding versifiers of France, who a generation earlier would have withered into insignificance, expanded into affluent and profuse blossom. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The wet, shining deck, the mutely respectful figures waiting to receive them, all blurred into insignificance for Allard. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z They knew the sun was far larger than the earth, and Cicero with other thinkers recognized the insignificance of earthly affairs in the face of such cosmic immensity. The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe 2011-04-03T02:00:15.847Z The republics on the east and the west of the Adriatic Gulf, were, since the rise of the other great naval states, only the ruins of past glory, sinking daily into insignificance. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z All of his hare and hound and paper chases must sink into insignificance after this hunt; for a desperate man was seeking to effect his escape. Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence 2011-04-01T02:00:41.017Z And just as the moon and stars fade out of view when the sun comes up, so the less vivid attraction of Myra and Florence dimmed into insignificance beside the appealing radiance that was Gloria’s. Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z Perhaps this explains Rose’s apparent insignificance at that end of the floor. Off the Dribble: Keeping Score: Why Rose Should Not Win M.V.P. 2011-03-31T20:10:41Z He was allowed, on account of his insignificance, to go wherever he pleased; and, as a domestic animal, was a witness of what passed in the most profound secrecy. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z I have heard G. P. R. James backed for a volume a-month, but this sinks him into utter insignificance.” Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z Ministers' and missionaries' work pale into insignificance compared with what you are accomplishing. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z There is a grave in Toledo, a slab of brass, over a great king-maker who lived long enough to realise his insignificance. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z I bless God for the grace and strength afforded me on that occasion, causing the Duke to sink into the utmost insignificance in comparison with His favor which is better than life. The Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Miss J. 1834-1851 Edited by Extracts from the Diary of the Latter 2011-03-10T03:00:53.010Z Can you estimate the complete insignificance of the Phœnicians in this commerce? The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z The finest artificial garden in the world sinks into insignificance when compared with this parterre of nature’s own planting. Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 2011-03-13T03:00:21.980Z I once thought William the center of interest in the world, but the love I had for him pales into insignificance beside that for Augustus. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z The two brothers had raised printing at Glasgow from insignificance to an excellence which equalled, and perhaps surpassed, the standard attained at London, Oxford or Cambridge, or, indeed, for the moment, anywhere in Europe. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z Thus the talk about improbability with which we started falls into its proper insignificance. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Eumenes, although physically weak, was a shrewd and vigorous ruler and politician, who raised his little state from insignificance to a powerful monarchy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Evidently those Yakut frosts were beginning, which reduce the most terrible Arctic cold to insignificance. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z Every heart beat with this fiery resolution, and every incongruity melted and faded into insignificance before this consuming belief. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z But the epithet had been used to express rather her social insignificance, than her physical proportions. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z This young woman had latterly passed into regions of thought and feeling, from which much of her old life, with its old pains, and pleasures, and aims, seemed shrunken into insignificance. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z The expulsions were preceded by a year of ominous rumors of a program of new restrictions beside which the May Laws would pale into insignificance. Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 2011-03-01T03:00:45.597Z No man can be tossed about upon it without feeling his impotence and insignificance, and having his heart opened to the companions of his danger as it has never been opened before. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z Under Macedonian and Roman rule Eretria fell into insignificance; for a short period under Mark Antony, the triumvir, it became a possession of Athens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z He looked at her challengingly, at every pitiful, repulsive detail, especially if it brought forward a trace of his own insignificance. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z The fire blazes up fiercely, and anon drops its flame and sinks into insignificance once more. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z Milton assuredly did not intend to make Lucifer his hero; but the ruined Archangel dwarfs into insignificance all other personages in Paradise Lost, human, divine, or infernal. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z All the dramas of �schylus pale into insignificance before this scene.... A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z He was already struggling against that enervating sense of insignificance which his client's presence inevitably imposed upon him. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Summer lightning would pale into insignificance compared with the intensity of those momentary sheets of lurid light. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z Have a care, my lord Marquis—spite of my insignificance, you may learn to rue the day you made me conscious of it. The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet 2011-02-23T03:00:30.700Z These numbers sink into insignificance compared with the multitudes who fought in Artois and West Flanders during the thirty days of the Ypres battle. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z In the light of this last catastrophe the finding of the man whom he felt sure was his father's murderer sank into comparative insignificance. The Childerbridge Mystery 2011-02-16T03:00:38.127Z The constant drugging that conceals the symptoms of organic ailment may permit one of comparative insignificance at the time a patient entered a sanatorium to become incurable before he leaves. Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy 2011-02-15T03:00:18.787Z "Given the insignificance of the economic figure, we are going to analyze, discuss and decide if we will appeal this decision or not," Pablo Fajardo, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in an e-mailed statement. Ecuador court orders Chevron to pay $8.6 bln 2011-02-15T00:57:48Z But, heralded by this reappearance of Jabez, there was to come upon her a long list of disasters, following so close one upon the other, that in comparison Jabez and his misdeeds dwindled into insignificance. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Too agreeable!" answers Cyril, with suspicious readiness: "I fear it will make all other entertainments sink into insignificance. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Considering indeed the political insignificance and remoteness in which that story took its earliest surviving form this enormous success—if the modern term may be applied—seems at first singularly out of proportion. A Selection from the Poems of William Morris 2011-02-11T03:00:29.580Z I had never felt my insignificance so keenly before. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Staggering sums they may be, but they pale into insignificance compared with the multi-billion dollar packages the very top hedge fund managers earn. Financial muscle 2011-02-02T23:30:28Z Boeing says the research and development grants it received pale into insignificance besides the support for Airbus, some of which amounted to export subsidies that are completely illegal under WTO rules. WTO hands over report on Boeing subsidies 2011-01-31T15:10:32Z Among all the impressions that crowd upon the mind in this wonderful place that which oftenest recurs and longest remains is the impression of man's individual insignificance. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z And herewith we uncover the fallacy that lies so snugly hidden away in the phrase "comparative insignificance." The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z His insignificance was borne home upon him, mellowing all his spirit. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z He had his faults, but then his virtues so far outweighed them that they sank into insignificance. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z What had he done, what awful crime was this that had no name, before which, in Richmond's eyes, even murder sank into insignificance? The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z In presence of such condescension, no choice was left a man but either to bow down in absolute adoration, or for ever to bear about with him the sense of utter insignificance and nothingness. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z Such a descent, pursued for a few centuries, would bring it to comparative insignificance. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z Chance gave him precedence of Egon in the present game, and he made sure of soon establishing the Candidate's insignificance and his own supremacy as a player. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z The mere saving of a life sank into insignificance before the loss of one. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z Beside them in literature and general renown all other beings sink into insignificance. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z The change now going on in the South from the feudal agricultural life to sharpened modern conditions has brought difficulties for the planter compared with which all others pale into insignificance. Following the Color Line an account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy 2011-01-06T03:00:45.737Z Charles Dickens has given us an amusing account of an English Circumlocution Office, but English red tape dwindles into insignificance by the side of Spanish red tape. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Suddenly the whole world faded into insignificance: "Senyder!" he stuttered, pointing imperiously to a dog whose breed seemed as indeterminate as the prototype. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z On top of that, the dislocation between the City and the public mood is a reminder of Britain's insignificance – the FTSE100 is heavy on mining and energy companies that look abroad for profitability. London Stock Exchange: festive rally in share prices raises hopes of an end to the gloom 2011-01-02T00:05:48Z |
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