| 单词 | smallness |
| 例句 | What he liked about it was the smallness, and the fact that it seemed never to have had any particular function of its own. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I had rarely had reason to enter my father's room prior to this occasion and I was newly struck by the smallness and starkness of it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She thought often about Alice, the delicate quality to her smallness and fairness, the incredible strength of her piano playing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then, just as quickly, it was replaced by a sense of smallness and quiet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She thought it too slow, the dust too red, the people too satisfied with the smallness of their lives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z My slight build, my thin waist, the smallness of my head, hands, and feet raised no questions in anybody’s mind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The source of his brittle elation was the relative smallness of his misfortune. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “They do not sneer at the crawlers. It is the smallness of the tunnel. Fliers do not like a place they cannot spread their wings.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I let myself feel the smallness and closeness of the closet pressing in on me, and I think about Sir Patrick Moore’s black hole trick, when he just vanished into thin air. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The beauty of what we do is its secrecy, its smallness. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z These two ideas transcend our finite understanding, he wrote, “the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And felt like a traitor for saying it, the truth, the granite truth, felt a smallness, a rage. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if we’d stepped into the larger crosscurrents of culture and history, reminded suddenly of our relative smallness in the wider arc of time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The one thing about him was the smallness of his ears, the ears of a child, ears like little dried apricots. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He liked the word—its smallness, its density, the way it rose up at the end as if it had wings. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z But other than his smallness—and the fact that he carried a blue bouncy ball everywhere he went—there was really nothing else about him that stood out. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z As Angela made her way through the chaos into the HSM room, our perspective climbed high above her, suggesting her smallness within the Dark Army apparatus. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The only excess in the video is the scale — the hugeness of the colors versus the relative smallness of the star. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z These works also give us an emotional registry of the feelings — smallness, sublimity, foreboding, tranquillity — that snow evokes. What It Means to Look at Paintings of Snow 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z But the smallness of the space emphasised the excoriating quality of Raine's dialogue, as her ferociously opinionated characters argued about sex, envy and the torment of ageing. Nina Raine: a great ear for anger 2010-10-11T21:00:00Z To say this is a small novel would be no offense to the author, who praises smallness throughout, but I wish McKibben sounded a little more anxious about the sinister trappings of secession movements. Of course Bernie Sanders endorsed this novel about a rebel in Vermont 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z It's something about how he simultaneously understands both the cheap and the philosophical urges of narrative plot, how he combines the smallness of human tawdriness and the epic nature of human reach into something coexistent. Stefan Zweig memorial plan dismissed by English Heritage 2012-08-06T09:53:42Z Yet for all its smallness, it remains one of the most disturbing plays ever written, as if Potter were examining the seed of human cruelty through a microscope. Blue Remembered Hills - review 2013-05-02T14:05:36Z He claims no higher purpose, and when you suggest that his global hike might help prove the smallness of the world and possibly foster global peace, he bristles. Will Russia thwart Karl Bushby’s epic hike around the globe? It was that "delicious smallness," in the context of epic stories of good and evil, that "Law & Order" did so well. New York's faces: `Law & Order' showed 'em all 2010-05-15T21:01:00Z The actor’s height allows him to tower over Spaeny to such a degree that it only emphasizes her smallness next to his stature. "Priscilla": Sofia Coppola delivers a sympathetic but ultimately suffocating portrait 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Forensically, with a dazzling eye for detail and no qualms about the smallness of those details, the heroine lists her husband's shortcomings. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z Mr. Pendleton shapes his production not as a move toward one great climax but as a fluid stream of anticlimaxes, and it’s that eroding quality of smallness that truly breaks your heart.” ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Readers Review 'Three Sisters' 2011-02-07T13:00:29Z I love microscopic acuity, and I thought he was untouchable in that: the fineness, and the smallness of things that he would describe so well. Jerry Seinfeld Rarely Laughs While He’s Reading 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z “It’s beautiful,” he says, and while I wouldn’t argue with that answer, it does somehow reveal the smallness of this supercosmic vision. ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Review: Nothing Out of the Ordinary 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z His drumming joined the rhythmic waves and the theater was engulfed in sound that lifted everything up, shyness and smallness and loudness and age and time itself. ‘Peaceful fighters’ celebrated in KanKouran dance tribute to King 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z When West is at an industry event with far more famous people, in search of a little validation, Simmons films him from a distance, emphasizing his relative smallness. Kanye West Always Wanted You to Watch 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The smallness of the Serpentine gallery demands much tighter editing; the space edits the work as much as the artist. Wolfgang Tillmans: Everything and nothing 2010-06-23T20:30:00Z Part of what I liked about the film is how it reclaims the wonder of human endeavor from the smallness of its patriotic recitations. Fifty Years After Apollo 11, the View of Earth from the Moon 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z In addition, the social-evaluative nature of social media is at cross-purposes with the healthy “smallness” that comes with awe. Awe might be our most undervalued emotion. Here’s how to help children find it. 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z There’s a high, from the logistical boldness it requires, the smallness it engenders. Ice Fishing Is Fun! 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z I enclosed myself in this claustrophobic existence and reveled in the new smallness of my world. Modern Love: Modern Love: Revelations of a Feminist 2011-09-08T22:11:00Z So they kept the makeup application process short, but still ended up with a character who looks as though she “wears her ugliness on the outside, all that smallness and bitterness.” How Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman and other actors became unrecognizable onscreen 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z In the middle of nowhere, though, we can surrender to smallness again and instead find where we fit in the landscape. Personal Journeys: A Case for Getting Far, Far Away 2013-05-16T17:46:20Z For Broodthaers, Brussels’s drabness and smallness was part of its artistic appeal. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Is he not mired in the same British smallness that William Blake once accused portraitists such as Gainsborough of suffering from? Lucian Freud storms the Pompidou Centre 2010-03-16T21:35:00Z At the album’s heart is “Aequilibria,” a piece with rich contrast and surprising balance between spaciousness — conveyed through airy fifths — and knotty smallness. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Her smallness became a closeness which became a bigness. Perspective | Our biggest pop stars keep falling for lowercase letters (AND CAPS LOCK, TOO) 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z At times, the cramped proportions of the Victorian house seem too influential on the whole work, but as a pendant to the spacious original gallery its smallness makes sense. Beautiful south 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z And a different buzz descends when you take a closer look — which the smallness invites. Deep Looking, With Vija Celmins 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps it's the smallness of their cabin-confined world, their tight-knit friendships and rivalries, in contrast to the vast terrain they cross. TV highlights 22/03/2013 2013-03-22T07:00:07Z In the course of learning to still her mind long enough to watch swans, finches and herons, she begins to ponder subjects like regret, roaming, waiting, smallness. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Each small photograph is its own contained world, its own perfect object — and each one speaks eloquently of regrets, roaming, waiting, smallness. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z At once soaring and torrential, the altar insists on your smallness, your next-to-nothingness in the redemptive drama. ‘Painted in Mexico’: When a New Art Flourished Far From Mother Spain 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Asking galleries to show less wouldn't get us anywhere: it's hard to imagine them boasting of a collection of unrivalled smallness. Matisse at the Moma, New York 2010-08-15T22:00:00Z A friend of mine once told me that there was a reason he was always the first in the room to bring up the smallness of his eyes. Weike Wang on the Privilege of Not Having to Think About Race 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Its relative smallness of scale — a scant 157 pages, cut to fit in the palm of the hand — is deceptive, itself the mark of a supremely confident writer. Han Kang’s Novel Is a Politically Tinged Eulogy for a Dead Sister 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z There is a plainness, a smallness of frame, but that’s precisely what makes them fascinating. The Baby-Sitters Club Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Literary Fiction 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z But while the play might be moving up a weight class, Mr. Rock sees it as an opportunity for smallness. Comedian, Rebranded 2011-03-03T17:41:44Z These objects, in their smallness and particularity, resist the enormous scale of September 11th and insist on the everyday lives and labors of individual people. Watching New York City Take Shape at Windows on the World 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Where the community’s smallness once felt like an embrace, now it felt like suffocation. From Bittersweet Childhoods to ‘Moonlight’ 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z What he’s proposing is merely a thought experiment, daring the reader to ponder the virtues of smallness in an age of military and corporate gigantism. A Polite Drive for Secession in ‘Radio Free Vermont’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Roger makes the smallness of her frame and the purity of her voice into an assault and into an appeal. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z “Such is the smallness of my spirit,” he writes, “that I rank my position in the universe against everyone I encounter.” Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z So it's always a breath of fresh air to see a small house embrace its smallness and send out a show where earnestness stands in for big budgets. Chanel's casual chic vs. Givenchy's extreme art 2011-01-25T23:56:11Z There’s a bracing smallness to these books — even those of Knausgaard, who’s a miniaturist on a gargantuan scale — and a serene indifference to what has long passed for ambition in the novel. Kate Atkinson’s ‘A God in Ruins’ 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z The relative smallness of the Riddley vocabulary and the apparent simplicity of its syntax means that meanings are layered on meanings, and that becomes meaningful in itself. Why Riddley Walker rivals the Passion as the perfect Easter story 2013-04-01T09:00:02Z “The King of Staten Island” is one of those 10-block-radius life slices whose smallness and intimacy ought to be a virtue. ‘The King of Staten Island’ Review: Pete Davidson Gets (Even More) Personal 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Their courage is evident, but so is their smallness in the face of a vast and complex authoritarian system. | ?Petition?: In China, You Can?t Fight City Hall 2011-01-14T00:04:43Z But over the next 50 years and eight books, she became her own protagonist, a real girl suffering the real problems of childhood, in all of their smallness and their enormity. Perspective | Beverly Cleary taught girls to make a brave demand: Love me for how I am 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Mathieu’s melodramatic tale is mimetic almost to a fault of the smallness of the social conditions it seeks to convey. When White Working-Class Fury Came of Age 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Butz at first seems to be overcompensating for the smallness of Holmes, but the anguish and heart of his character are revealed beautifully. Review: Rebeck's 'Dead Accounts' lacks sharpness 2012-11-30T02:02:09Z These writers — who stay interested in smallness, strangeness and the obscure — have a way of lasting. Times Critics Discuss Their Year in Books, From New Talents to Old Favorites 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z When night finally falls, the pitch-black sky, unpolluted by artificial light, exposes the vastness of the Milky Way and the smallness of even a pandemic in the scheme of things. In coastal Maine, the perfect pace for self-quarantining 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The common thread seems to be a sense of smallness or underdog status: nobody calls a jowly dictator or heavyweight boxer “feisty”. Double-edged words 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Our critic Jennifer Senior writes that McKibben is a proposing a thought experiment, “daring the reader to ponder the virtues of smallness in an age of military and corporate gigantism.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z But the smallness of Mr. Starr’s space encourages a kind of intimacy that museums rarely achieve. Art Review: Rauschenberg, Before Fame Struck 2014-05-08T20:35:43Z All three were learning about the power of smallness. Art Review: Ken Price: Yes, the Ceramics Are Art 2013-06-20T23:21:14Z Known for his playful poetry and for flouting typographical custom, Edward Estlin Cummings grew up happily entangled in both nature and words — contentedly aware of his “enormous smallness” while exploring the wilderness. Best children’s books for April: Poetry edition 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The show is brilliant on sisterly affections and resentments, a relationship magnified by the smallness of their existence and the magnitude of their ambitions. Bront? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z Mr. Solondz exposes its smallness to the harsh glare of satire. Review: ‘Wiener-Dog,’ the Tail That Wags Through a Few Bitter Lives 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The extreme smallness of British numbers in many overseas locations also tended to reinforce the use of racist distance as a tactic of rule. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin - review 2012-12-28T08:00:03Z On the stage, however, the smallness and the shtickiness are clumsily magnified, as "Fish in the Dark," David's Broadway debut as writer and actor, uncomfortably reveals. Larry David's play 'Fish in the Dark' thinks too small-screen 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z She sought adventure and was “afraid of smallness.” ‘Barack Obama,’ by David Maraniss 2012-06-15T23:27:19Z I know that it’s condescending to rue the supposed smallness of these women’s lives; it’s flat-out hypocritical to even think of them as small to begin with. Curse of my birthing hips 2012-12-20T01:00:00Z Characters reappear in each of the stories, showing the smallness of the world, and the place of chance in defining the shape of a life. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z That sense of isolation, of contented smallness, pervades the region. With Wind Calm, Serenity in Slovenia 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z That said, the smallness of the space could be said to lend it a delicacy, even a mystique. Noted: Tattoo Ideas? Ink Lovers Get a Buzz in Their Ear 2013-12-31T18:58:39Z But it is a trudge, and strangely ponderous in its smallness. Review: Bill Fay’s ‘Who Is the Sender?’ Harks Back to Another Time 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z These days, he said, he is cognizant of trying to “aggressively maintain a smallness” as an experimental artist, even though success pushes him to be bigger. Jenny Holzer and Miguel Gutierrez Collaborate 2010-07-23T14:32:00Z Paul D. Ryan ended his congressional career in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, beneath a stained-glass vaulted ceiling whose grandiosity emphasized the smallness of the ceremony below. Paul Ryan’s small, sad goodbye 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The novel begins to explore what the poet Kay Ryan, in her new book of essays, calls “the small plop ordinary lives make,” and the rage against that smallness. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery, but Where’s the Body? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z It also is a way of acknowledging the essential truth of our smallness before a god. James L. Kugel's 'In the Valley of the Shadow' eyes death, faith 2011-03-03T00:39:04Z Her book is full of drawings: of people with thick, expressive eyebrows; of humans and birds praised for their smallness; of writers and musicians who wander into detours. Photos, Gardens, Birds, Trees: What’s Happening in the Great Outdoors 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Seneb was a dwarf, but smallness did not hold him back in life – as this fine work of art from his expensive tomb attests. Could this be the earliest portrait in history? 2011-02-09T14:29:36Z I understand well what Sarah must have been chasing: More than feeling good, I wanted freedom from the cages of normalcy and smallness and fear. Review | Rose Andersen’s ‘The Heart and Other Monsters’ preserves the legacy of a lost sister 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z This makes the modern works seem hard and clumsy, and breaks the spell of smallness of the pre-historic ones. These faces from the ice age give the lie to our idea of civilisation 2013-02-08T07:00:11Z Watching all these videos—the Times produced an excellent compilation—one can’t help but notice the smallness of the event. What the Covington Saga Reveals About Our Media Landscape 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z I was not among them; the smallness and flatness of the image visually represents claustrophobia with a terrifying, unprecedented fidelity that traps the viewer along with Foy in the mental hospital of her nightmares. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z A repeated refrain expresses a romantic epiphany about one’s smallness in nature: “Nothing lives long/Only the earth and sky.” Dan Deacon Shows a Changed Attitude in ‘America’ 2012-08-28T21:58:24Z Mr. Pendleton shapes his production not as a move toward one great climax but as a fluid stream of anticlimaxes, and it’s that eroding quality of smallness that truly breaks your heart. | 'Three Sisters': Russian Ennui, American Idiom 2011-02-04T03:01:38Z He was big in every sense of the word, and there was instant pathos in the spectacle of a giant confined by the smallness of a world hedged in by 1950s racism. | 'Fences': Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson?s Classic 2010-04-27T02:03:00Z “When we are with them we perceive their immensity and also our smallness, it is a moment of absolute spiritual connection.” AP PHOTOS: Humpback whales draw thousands of visitors to a small port on Colombia’s Pacific coast 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Seeing sharks through her drone's eye "reminds me of my smallness," she added. Drones are showing us sharks like never before 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The feeling of standing at the base of one of the Giants is like standing before an impressive mountain; the feeling of smallness is overwhelming and restorative. Why Has California Been So Cloudy Lately? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The smallness of many of the fossils may lead to differing opinions on what some of them are, Wolfe predicts. Fossil-rich Welsh quarry yields trove of soft-bodied animals at dawn of modern life 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z The paradoxical smallness of this place is aptly reflected in the form Ryan uses for “The Queen of Dirt Island.” Review | Donal Ryan’s ‘The Queen of Dirt Island’ is a little Irish miracle 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z During a trip to the Mojave Desert, our writer was reminded of humanity’s smallness, naïveté and transience. Why California Is Still Counting Election Ballots 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z The smallness of small town life means secrets have a way of spilling out into the open. Manuel Muñoz's stories capture a Central Valley you've never seen 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Instead, for all of its precision and sorrow, the hearing could only measure the smallness of the question left to it to answer: What happened on Jan. 6, 2021? Elegy for a lost America: Will the Jan. 6 committee really change anything? 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z "A true leader listens to the experts and works with them. Gascón’s smallness is a problem for the people of Los Angeles County." Two Los Angeles County prosecutors sue George Gascon over demotions after opposing reforms, lawsuit says 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Moving only puts that smallness into stark relief. Perspective | Zen puzzle game ‘Unpacking’ strikes a bittersweet chord as I leave my hometown behind 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z At the most basic level, a book such as Wheatcroft’s demonstrates the smallness of his frame compared with the largeness of his subject. Opinion | A new book casts Winston Churchill as a racist imperialist. This is misguided history. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z This points to an asymmetry between the two notions of smallness. A Deep Math Dive into Why Some Infinities Are Bigger Than Others 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The smallness of this exercise was apparent to anyone standing there. How Your Cup of Coffee Is Clearing the Jungle 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z One of the easiest ways to elicit a sense of smallness is visual vastness. How to Feel Small 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “All the underlying issues of poverty, smallness, affordable housing, high cost of living and congestion in big cities are still there.” The pandemic brought New Zealanders back home. Will they stay? 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z It’s a “quiet, brilliant film, elegant in its smallness,” according to the Playlist. New movies to stream this week: ‘Stray,’ ‘Pixie’ and more 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The unexpected smallness of the cosmological constant is a thread that needs pulling. The Cosmological Constant Is Physics’ Most Embarrassing Problem 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Despite being set in the Great Plains, this is a highly claustrophobic tale where unaired grievances and the smallness of small-town life sit on your chest and don’t let up. In ‘Pickard County Atlas,’ a family tries to bury its curse 18 years after an unsolved murder 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The persistent smallness of his apparent aspirations is the core of the comic aspect of his presidency: the extra scoop of ice cream, the ratings obsession, even the military parades. Donald Trump’s Strongman Act, and Its Limits 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z But we can find agency, even comfort, in their smallness. Opinion | I Used to Go Out. Now I Go to The Home Depot. 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z For cruelty and smallness, there is the “zero tolerance” directive to federal prosecutors that led to family separations at the border. Opinion | Fauci has been an example of conscience and courage. Trump has been nothing but weak. 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z If, as the evidence seems to show so far, dark energy is truly a result of the cosmological constant, there is still some hope of sorting through the various proposed explanations for its unexpected smallness. The Cosmological Constant Is Physics’ Most Embarrassing Problem 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Our church is so much bigger than Trump’s smallness. Opinion | Trump wants to turn his opponents into infidels to be destroyed, not defeated 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z This is the utter smallness of the man, and the tragedy for everyone stuck being governed by him. The truth about why Cummings hasn't gone: Johnson is too terrified to sack him | Marina Hyde 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Of course, in their symphonic relationship, Kahlo’s “smallness,” and her work’s concentrated potency, hum in continuous counterpoint to Rivera’s largeness — the fat, thumping chords of his big politics, his big pictures, his great-man bloatedness. Perspective | Power couple, power portrait 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Americans need to understand the epic smallness of our president in times that demanded something more. Opinion | The horrendous reality at the heart of Trump’s pandemic response 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z This week the new smallness of life is truly beginning to sink in. Goodbye panic, hello listlessness: welcome to the next stage of coronavirus isolation | Brigid Delaney 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Or, as Paul expresses it near the end: “The smallness of the world never ceases to amaze me.” Review: ‘The Glass Hotel’ a tragic tale for the times 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Seeing the smallness of Jean-Raymond’s operation made me consider the intimacy of his clothing, and how all of it is impossible to separate from its creator. The Designer Changing How We Think About Fashion and Race in America 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But the smallness of the lies was actually critical. Opinion | With coronavirus, Trump’s lies and his reassurances backfire 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z If there’s one thing that fans of the first film will miss, it’s the cavernous architecture of the original film’s hotel interior, which served to further isolate and emphasize the smallness of the central characters. Review | Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus forgo yuks for an icky feeling in ‘Downhill’ 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Because the smallness of the man could not be conceded, Tory campaign staff attempted to insist the interview request and the prime minister’s presence in a fridge were correlated but not causal. Fridge-hiding, the final frontier in election WTF-ery | Marina Hyde 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z “The petulance and smallness and ridicule that he invited is very dangerous for all of us,” Kerry said. John Kerry endorses Joe Biden in 2020 Democratic primary race 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The pair were found to have symptoms of sweating, numbness, and difficulty walking due to the exposure of toxic gasses expelled from the car and the smallness in space in which they were rescued. African teens found hiding behind dashboard, under car seats attempting to enter Spanish enclave 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z I remember finally feeling convinced, and perhaps on some level vindicated, too, that this smallness was him. My Family’s Life Inside and Outside America’s Racial Categories 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z There is, however, a magic to smallness: Show me two manspreaders wasting a seat on a crowded subway, and I will gleefully squeeze in between them. Letter of Recommendation: Deadlifting 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z “The main source of the profitableness of established banking is the smallness of the requisite capital,” he wrote. The Invention of Money 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Their quantitative smallness is one-dimensional and arrogant and infuriating. Are star ratings just useless shiny objects? Our critics debate 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But I was struck by the relative smallness of the crowd and an absence of energy. Can this man call time on corruption in South Africa? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z “The way to meet that challenge is to not succumb to the pettiness, to the smallness, to the intolerance.” Gaga! Stefani! O’Rourke! White House hopeful causes a stir in Vegas 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z I’ll remember how, once upon a time, I lived inside a girl’s body that was often abused by a much older, much larger man, and instantly the magic of smallness stops. Letter of Recommendation: Deadlifting 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z It was a small, plaintive, lonely sound, not spoken or sung but still audible, thanks to the force of O’Hara’s rendering—the smallness was that of Cathy’s life. The Art of Aspiration in “Kiss Me, Kate” and “Be More Chill” 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z “I think people want us to rise above the pettiness, the smallness.” A big hand for Beto O'Rourke and his amazing waving arms 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z I was a fan of the Duplass factory, I was enjoying the show “Togetherness” at the time it was on HBO, and I am also into the minutia and the smallness. The Conversation: Ray Romano and Mark Duplass chasing emotions in 'Paddleton' 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In sum, Professor Wu fetishizes “smallness” despite the evidence showing that most things progressives and free-marketers alike value increase with firm size. Tim Wu's morality play: A review of "The Curse of Bigness" 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z “By existing, she reminds them of their smallness. By being different, she forces them to redefine ‘enemy.’ 'How Long 'Til Black Future Month?' collects the marvelous short fiction of N.K. Jemisin 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z “I really feel us all kind of focussed forward into the future. It’s just too much smallness in this, with the lock him up stuff, and the lies he’s put out about our record.” Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz in the Final Stretch of the Texas Senate Race 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps it is natural to attribute heroism to past generations and to find a sad smallness in your own. Opinion | This is the new GOP: Angry and afraid 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Evidently, there is no limit to his smallness. Donald Trump’s Response to John McCain’s Death Reminds Us Just How Petty and Small He Is 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Despite Croatia’s smallness in land and population, this is not a case of a puny soccer nation surfacing out of nowhere. As sun sets on glorious World Cup, France-Croatia final is one last chance to shine 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z In fact, its smallness is its strength — as is its silence. Review | ‘Hearts Beat Loud’ is a sweet drama about learning to love — and when to let go. 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z In turn, a smallness exploited thoughtfully might even become a boon on the pitch. In Iceland, World Cup players aren’t gods. They’re neighbors. 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z “The smallness of this debate is disgraceful. This crisis is growing and the answers are right in front of us,” Mr. Tonko said. Opioid bills advanced by House Energy and Commerce Committee 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Within the suffocating smallness of this setting, quiet, flawless observations dazzle. William Trevor’s final collection of stories 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z “People yawned at the smallness of American politics, at the stagnation of American politics, at the same faces, the same ideas, the same talking points.” A time for big economic ideas 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z In baring his smallness, the billionaire New York developer managed to collapse the differences between his gilded life and that of white Middle America. The Man Behind the President’s Tweets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z I speak on healing and rising from the many ways the world tries to bruise us into submission and smallness. The lie pictures tell: an ex-model on the truth behind her perfect photos 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z At a time like this, and I don’t care who it is, and I am sure they care less who you are, but mocking the deceased and his family reveals the smallness of your character. Briscoe Cain, Republican lawmaker, under fire for tweeting jab at Stephen Hawking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z “This smallness, this bigotry, this paranoia, this anxiety,” he said, cadence accelerating, “we’ve got to be for the big, aspirational, ambitious things.” The Lone Star Long Shot Who Wants to Topple Ted Cruz 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Shot in classic widescreen, Mr Cooper captures both the grandeur of nature and the smallness of these few characters, emphasising their powerlessness over the natural world. “Hostiles” is a bloody depiction of the American frontier 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The overarching goals are too big for one person, but the tranquil utopian atmosphere makes it easy to enjoy the smallness of each task. Review | The 10 best video games of 2017 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Leave him, the coffin we call a home, the life of smallness I know as mine. The lie pictures tell: an ex-model on the truth behind her perfect photos 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z These days, pettiness is openly flaunted by the powerful, who are uniquely capable of sending their own smallness radiating throughout the culture. Who Doesn’t Love to Be ‘Petty’? 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The extraordinary difficulty in measuring with high precision is caused by its intrinsic smallness; for example, it is 660 times smaller than the magnetic moment of the positron3. A parts-per-billion measurement of the antiproton magnetic moment : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z It is not his vulgarity and smallness, which have been the equivalent of spray-painting graffiti on the Washington Monument. Opinion | Republicans, it’s time to panic 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z He is finding drama in smallness, in the margins, in tiny changes of perspective. The Philip K Dick book I love most… 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z He hates them for the smallness of their paychecks. Power in the absence of money 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z But I think smallness is a valuable way to see compactness. What Does Compactness Really Mean? 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z But the feeling of smallness in modern guest rooms may be less the fault of closets than of the fact that they are actually shrinking. Drink Up, Business Travelers. The Minibar Is on the Way Out. 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z And Trump’s 100-day list will not be constrained by the smallness of past presidents or his own past promises, for that matter. Congratulations, Mr President, on your wild romp through all norms and rules | Richard Wolffe 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z The smallness of it is breathtaking, a compartment about the size of a large living-room rug. Masters 2017: Is the time ripe for a new Sunday pin at No. 16? - Golf Digest 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z He hates them for the smallness of the jobs they have in their various departments and agencies and committees and boards. Power in the absence of money 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z As a notion of smallness, then, compactness is a bit fraught. What Does Compactness Really Mean? 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Language has its own power to lead the mind out of smallness. The riddle of Donald Trump: how a man of few words reached the pinnacle of power 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z “They will smell his smallness from miles away.” Who is ‘Source D’? The man said to be behind the Trump-Russia dossier’s most salacious claim. 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z That kind of smallness didn’t feel liberating at all. In the Land of Giants 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The town of the title is deftly sketched, both in its colors—you can’t always tell where the gray of the ocean ends and the winter air begins—and in the smallness of its scale. Fighting Demons with Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Lee's life is far from happy, but it does have a kind of self-protective smallness. 'Manchester By the Sea's' director chronicles what the film world has forsaken: humanism 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z They expect her to say something that puts the smallness of Trump and the greatness of America into context. Trump Forced Clinton to Play Defense at the Debate 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Her triumph was to celebrate community “in all its smallness” in that ultimate metropolis, New York, while keeping the bigger picture in view. Cities: Humanizing the urban fabric : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The literature of sequoias is, counterintuitively, also a celebration of smallness. In the Land of Giants 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Trump epitomises the type of man who sees no value in women other than their smallness, compliance, conventional attractiveness and sexual availability. Fat people, rise up! We could swing this election | Lindy West 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Wayland-Smith bemoans the “loss of energy and imagination behind the original dream,” the descent into “middle-class smallness” and “conformity.” The Return of the Utopians 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z A paragraph heading in one of her Fortune pieces summed up her new belief: “The smallness of big cities.” Jane Jacobs’s Street Smarts 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z President Obama likes to say that the smallness of our politics doesn’t match the magnitude of our challenges. Colin Powell's hacked emails are an unwitting gift to voters | Richard Wolffe 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z And she described an acquaintance who summed up her relationship with her father this way: “He can’t accept the smallness of my dreams.” ‘What if You Weren’t Afraid?’ and 4 More Money Questions From Readers 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Its logo includes an image of a hand with a first finger and thumb close together - the common sign for smallness. South Korea gaming: How a T-shirt cost an actress her job - BBC News 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z His characters share a deliberate sort of pettiness, not just a smallness of drive, but a smallness in the impotent, baffled way they greet obstacles. Taika Waititi's Hunt For The Wilderpeople is a strange, perfect dry run for Thor: Ragnarok 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z I remember his physical presence, so vast compared with my toddler smallness. Muhammad Ali, My Father and Me 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The smallness of the markets is one reason that insurers say the markets aren’t a great bet for them. Expanding Medicare Would Solve Some Problems, Create New Ones 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “Few failed to exclaim at the smallness of man and his handiwork as seen from this great distance,” The Times reported when the Empire State Building opened. New York Today: Empire State of Lights 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z “Even the acting is not what you seen in low-budget indie films in terms of bigness and smallness.” Festival favorite 'The Arbalest' channels Wes Anderson, divides indie-film world 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The sequel is a smaller film in multiple respects, but the filmmakers haven't set out to make a virtue out of its smallness, instead trying to ape the first film's grandeur on a tighter budget. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny shrinks the original in more ways than one 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z There’s how the largeness of the scone seems only to emphasize her impossible smallness. Why do so few novelists dare to write about being fat? 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z In other words, the genes for "smallness" prosper while genes for "largeness" are selectively removed by fishing. Are humans driving evolution in animals? - BBC News 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z He is so much less a man than his father that it would be tragic if there weren't actual human beings being hurt by his smallness of soul in action. Cuomo, in State of State Speech, Unveils $20 Billion Housing Plan 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The really remarkable thing about Mourinho’s demise is the smallness of the man it has revealed. Chelsea’s José Mourinho fast becoming much ado about nothing | Marina Hyde 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Sword Of Destiny suffers endlessly by comparison to Ang Lee's groundbreaking 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for the comparative smallness of its vision, its visuals, and its budget. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny shrinks the original in more ways than one 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z While the smallness of workplace squabbles is universal, the nature of scientific research lends itself to stories on an actual universal scale. Listen to this: Story Collider reveals the human stories behind the science 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z It’s not that we feel our smallness in relationship to the larger forces of the universe with too much sensitivity, according to Peanuts – it’s that our suffering indicates that we don’t yet feel small enough. Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz on the necessity of loserdom 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z The barrier of bigness preventing human interstellar travel will be overcome by the enablement of smallness—the evolution of information processing and nanotechnology that will permit virtual exploration of other worlds. Oh the Places We Won't Go: Humans Will Settle Mars, and Nowhere Else [Excerpt] 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The smallness of their campaigns accrued to Clinton. Six take-aways from the Democratic debate 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Actually, there’s a word for this combination of terror, euphoria and smallness in the face of vastness, which constitutes the oddest and least understood of emotions: awe. Awe: the powerful emotion with strange and beautiful effects | Oliver Burkeman 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Some of it holds up mirrors labeled “courage” or “friendship” or “smallness of soul,” to see if we can see ourselves in there. The Suicide of the Liberal Arts 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z This means that bigness is a mirage, but it also means that smallness is a kind of illusion, too. The Diminutive Genius of Max Beerbohm 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z "It is a demonstration of both relevance and irrelevance," he says of the partial ban, "an opportunity to witness the great and bothersome power of the federal government, and its irritating smallness as well." FDA Bans Artificial Trans Fats, Pundits React 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z He is filled with feelings of “impropriety, of ignorance, smallness, estrangement.” Alejandro Zambra, Latin America’s New Literary Star 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Both are vivid reminders of the smallness of the individual self. Awe: the powerful emotion with strange and beautiful effects | Oliver Burkeman 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z History forgets the paradoxical smallness of the first lunar landing. A Visual History of Spacewalks 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Like space travel itself, the deeper one goes, the greater the sense of smallness, creating a burgeoning humility for how much is still undiscovered. Kerbal Space Program review: A playful masterpiece of space exploration 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z There’s something refreshing about this story’s furious smallness, which treats an addict’s need for food and transportation with the seriousness of some regal jock’s Italian divorce. ♦ Thomas Cromwell, TV’s Latest Anti-Hero 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z The most striking thing about Amazon Conservation’s work is the smallness of its constituent parts. Climate Change vs. Conservation 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z A more likely culprit, though, is the simple fact that the small and mighty HTC is now defined more by its smallness than its mightiness. HTC can't get no respect 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z By insisting on pithiness, Twitter only amplifies this sensation of smallness. I'm Ashamed of Who I Am on Twitter 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Instead of grandeur, there is a smallness about this lawsuit in every way except in the stakes riding on its outcome. A Cynical Challenge to Obamacare 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Enormity, though, does Paddington no favors; smallness of stature is intrinsic to his appeal. “Still Alice” and “Paddington” Reviews 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z When driving the V40 on the test track, the only time that the three-cylinder engine’s smallness and modest output became apparent was on the front straightaway. Mighty Mite: New Three-Cylinder Engine Has Big Role In Volvo's Future (With V40, S60, S40) 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The Christian response cannot be different from God’s response to our smallness. With Christmas message, Pope urges world to embrace God 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Director of recruiting Stephanie Crowe says the recruiters are selling Montana, the smallness of the school, the job placement and the return on their investment. Montana Tech aims to double enrollment 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Whatever the central bank decides about the size, it will be partly limited by the relative smallness of Europe’s markets for loan-backed bonds. Promise From European Central Bank Is Also a Gamble 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z To hear the Bozeman Republican tell it, his rise is the product of “old-fashioned retail politics” that still matter in the vast smallness of Montana. Strategy, money, luck aid Steve Daines’ ascendance 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z Champ may be the smallness champ, with a 2010 population of 13, all white. The County Map That Explains Ferguson’s Tragic Discord 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z They also epitomise Mexico’s stubborn attachment to smallness in business. The Peter Pan syndrome 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z She gets annoyed by the erratic behavior of Chrome, the dinky trackpad, the occasional bugs and the smallness of desktop elements on the screen. Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Revisited 2014-04-14T13:05:53Z String theory needs supersymmetry; I think it would also help to understand the smallness of the cosmological constant. Gravitational Waves Reveal the Universe Before the Big Bang [Q&A] 2014-04-03T13:00:33Z It’s also about juxtaposing the smallness of human relationships—Thor’s family drama and romance with Foster—with the vastness of the universe and the unknown. The Latest 'Thor' Uses Dark Energy To Stay Grounded 2013-11-12T20:38:00Z Some people may argue that cheekiness, in its very smallness and apparent harmlessness, is an ineffective form of resistance that simply serves to reinforce the very power structures that it wants to challenge. Is cheekiness a truly British concept? 2013-10-16T00:10:43Z As Becker put it, riches “change one’s natural situation from one of smallness, helplessness, finitude, to one of bigness, control, durability, importance.” Buying Your Way to Eternity 2013-06-05T09:45:22Z As Ernest Becker put it, riches “change one’s natural situation from one of smallness, helplessness, finitude, to one of bigness, control, durability, importance.” Pursuit of Immortality: Buying Your Way to Eternity 2013-06-05T11:05:27Z One’s smallness, the very, very convincing ways in which one’s presence failed to matter, sometimes had to go without saying. Ben Marcus: “The Dark Arts.” 2013-05-13T04:00:00Z They can name the absurdity we feel in the face of horror — our utter smallness, so sharp in contrast to how large we normally feel in our own minds — and help us defy it. Patton Oswalt helps save the day 2013-04-16T15:08:00Z There was a sweet smallness to what was then — and perhaps still is — humanity’s grandest and most improbable achievement. Remembering Neil Armstrong, A Man of Profound Skill and Preternatural Calm 2012-08-26T00:35:27Z That degree of smallness which is compatible with tolerable distinctness of detail is desirable. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Like other European pockets of wealth — Monaco springs to mind — Luxembourg exudes smugness in its smallness, and a velvety well-being. Letter from Europe: Lessons From a Russian Oligarch 2012-05-04T13:20:07Z The smallness of the pipes renders it liable to damage by frost, but this accident may be prevented by always keeping in frosty weather a small fire in the furnace. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Remember the smallness of these Islands, and the scores of pulsing, radiating, almost radio-active centres within them, every one swarming with folk who intend to have a better time than their fathers have had. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z The smallness of the great mass of the farms is one great disposing cause why their owners are always in such a perilous financial position. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Newcastle constantly represented the smallness of his forces, and the danger threatening from the Scots. Rupert Prince Palatine 2012-04-13T02:00:20.660Z The smallness of the reward given in return for the services rendered would therefore operate as a strong inducement to the more selfish among them to prefer their fishing to the dictates of humanity. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 2012-04-03T02:00:36.237Z Of course the style of finishing is very limited on account of the smallness of the surface. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z Goethe, who saw the small painting of The Battle of Bunker Hill while it was in the hands of M�ller, the engraver, commended it, but criticized its colour and the smallness of the heads. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z What with the sickness of their wives, the squealing of their children, and the smallness of their pay, I think the gentlemen discover no common share of philosophy in keeping themselves from running mad. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z The breed does not suffer much from "distemper," and, strange to say, in spite of generations of coddling and fussing, and breeding for smallness and coat, is a decidedly healthy one. A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them 2012-03-25T02:00:07.687Z Sometimes from the smallness of the pulleys the inflexibility of the hook and eye becomes objectionable, and a simple hook is employed on solid round belting. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z This apathy causes them to degenerate, both mentally and physically, and thus leads to the smallness of families and the general extinction of the race. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z This breed has generally been considered one of the best in England, on account of its smallness of bone, early maturity, aptitude to fatten on little food, hardihood, and the females being good breeders. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Are our readers aware of the smallness of the established salaries of provincial officers—of the two Kwang, to wit? Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z The son of the usurer called attention to the extreme smallness of their number, but he thought it enough to keep the mob from assaulting working people. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z In cases where, from the excessive length and smallness of the bar, it is difficult to prevent it from springing, the cutters must be made as in Fig. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The size of such a molecule can not be comprehended by the human mind; its smallness seems infinite. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z Its smallness would be perceived if he led it into the open; his was a waiting game. Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo 2012-03-07T03:00:16.567Z The smallness of the rock on which the city lies, seven stades only in circuit, and the number of inhabitants caused every house to have many stories. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z Perhaps the relative smallness of their eyes accounts for their seeming lack of awareness of how high they are above the ground. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z I had meant to tell Mount of my conversations with Corporal Cloud and with Greathouse, but hesitated because the smallness of the room would carry even a whisper to the stranger by the chimney. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The plants are tall, but the flowers are inconspicuous, owing to the smallness or absence of the rays. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Her hands, like her "fairy feet," were of exceptional smallness and beauty. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Many of the houses here are brought all the way from Ontario, and, perhaps, this accounts for their smallness. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z I was amused to hear one of my friends here who collects for the numerous "guilds" dilate upon the smallness of the objects sent her. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z He has no cynical conception of men's weakness and smallness as something to play upon. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z The water is well tolerated, and in spite of the smallness of the dose the result is, in many cases, very evident.' New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers 2012-02-05T03:00:10Z Likewise, low-pitched sounds are reminiscent of large objects and high-pitched ones evoke smallness. Synaesthesia: Smells like Beethoven 2012-02-02T16:03:12Z A man who can have as many blankets and as much soup as he likes—to make up for the smallness of his wages—has a right to go off and be his own master! The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z Owing to the smallness of the vessel, every one on board was cramped for room, and my father's accommodation seems to have been narrow enough. Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z But perhaps the night, the smallness of the boy and his apparent terror had made the cat devoid of fear. The White Crystals Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys 2012-01-13T03:00:11.507Z The smallness of the house precludes much splendour. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Next come some unpretentious little barracks, which, in their smallness, are after the pattern of the soldiers, a number of whom are looking out of the windows. 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 But Toledo made up for the smallness of the compensation in the pleasure it gave him to orate about the happy days of Philip II, so much superior to "these days of liberalism." The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z No human being will believe what I shall publish about the smallness of the doses of phosphate of ammonia which act.... Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters 2012-01-22T03:00:19.733Z Nor let it be supposed that this smallness of capital can be accounted for by the difference in the standard of money; although that difference is considerable. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z It was the smallness of the quantity of provisions his party could transport that he was anxious about, because he meant to make a much longer march than his superior had directed. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z This and the smallness of the bones confirmed him in his judgment that it was the skeleton not of a white man, but of an Indian. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z This was going to be as famous a morning in the Casino, in spite of the smallness of the crowd, as the most celebrated afternoon and evening, when wealthy players fought with luck. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The world in which such fathers and mothers live may seem narrow, but the smallness of the world makes the companionship the closer. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z This bird only lays one egg—large, rough, and white—which fact perhaps explains the relative smallness of their nests. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Despite a certain narrowness of outlook, there was no smallness in Mr Morgan’s nature. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z This was because of the smallness of his army, the lack of arms and equipment, and the unfamiliarity of his men with military tactics. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z They brought it to her, asking pardon for its smallness, and said, “We did not find anything, only this mbinde.” Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions 2011-11-18T03:00:28.907Z But the night wanes and the small hours are literally upon me—their smallness even diminishes. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Small size.—The very smallness of the dwarf trees has many advantages in it. Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada 2011-11-17T03:00:30.320Z This difference is very large compared with the smallness of the unit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z She was by no means ugly; the prominent characteristic of her face being the smallness of the features. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z The house is gradually getting warm and comfortable, and the furniture settling into its place; but I have a curious feeling of smallness—as if I hadn't room to turn. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z The more I become acquainted with the town and see its smallness, the more I am struck with the uncommon resources in literature e le belle arti it possesses. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z A telephone was supposed to bring voices near, but far more than that the smallness and the distance struck her. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z With the help of a chef, a florist, and a decorator, a good deal of money had been spent to astonishingly effective ends, considering the smallness of the space at command. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Essipoff, when commiserated on the smallness of her hands, insisted that longer ones would be cumbersome. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Thankful for the few names blazoned there, freedom must drop a tear over the smallness of the number. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z The Johnsons, as I told you before, are totally ruined by an Indian bankruptcy; the smallness of my income prevents my supporting them. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z The table—it was a flimsy card-table covered with a cheap traycloth stiff with starch—accounted for all awkwardnesses and proximities; again she found it secretly delicious to murmur a demure apology for its smallness. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z I took all this in at a glance, and could not help noticing the smallness of her feet and hands and ears. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z He wore a double-breasted walking-coat, which was not, however, buttoned, and on the summit of his round head was perched a hat of exceeding smallness and of the so-called “pot” category. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Oh, he was going to England, to lecture on Peace; for him there were always those mighty problems which consoled him for the smallness of that little world of self! The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z She sat, stood, and moved, as if in constant pain from the tightness of her corsets, the smallness of her sleeve-holes, and the narrowness of her shoes. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Small box turtles are not so rare as these samples indicate; they are infrequently obtained because their smallness and ability to blend with the substrate make them difficult to see. Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz 2011-10-01T02:00:30.200Z The Ethiopians, who wore no clothing save the skin of some animal round their waist, surprised the travellers by the smallness of their stature. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z The reason for this reticence lay in the smallness, not in the largeness, of my balance. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z They are both ideal figures,—the offspring of a strong mental desire for creatures well rounded in their elevation and heroism,—creatures who should illustrate the nobleness of human nature divorced from its smallness. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z The interpretation of the Assyrian and Babylonian texts now advanced rapidly, in spite of the smallness of the body of students, and the incredulity of Orientalists, especially in Germany. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z And the very smallness of your hands proves that you are guilty. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z “The smallness of our words is quite evident compared to the greatness of this memorial and the sounds of the water,” he said, referring to the two waterfalls at the World Trade Center site. The TV Watch: On Slow and Somber Anniversary, News Media Try to Stay Out of the Picture 2011-09-12T05:30:33Z “We are bigger than the smallness of our politics.” On GOP turf, Obama pushes voters to pressure Congress to pass his new jobs initiatives 2011-09-09T18:00:53Z Lights and Coloring of the Picture.—Notwithstanding their smallness, the figures are most completely and expressively treated, so that in the half-lights the background shimmers here and there. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the house were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Here be no pigmies, predicating the outcome of little factions, no discourse about the smallness of word-meanings; but vast populations are arrayed under our eye. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z Abstract thought sets no limit to smallness or greatness; for mathematics deals with the infinitely small and with the infinitely great. The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development 2011-08-29T02:01:04.170Z For had they not concentrated in their interesting verdigrised, brass-smelling smallness something, to me, of the glory and wonder of Rome? Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z The removal of his spectacles revealed two very red-rimmed eyes, whose color escaped all note because of their smallness. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z But his talk about literature was very different from the usual shop talked by writers, with its narrowness, and smallness, and petty personal spite. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z When they saw the smallness of my force, however, they endeavored to turn me aside, but without success. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z At Lincoln, where there is a similar triforium, a very different effect is produced by its comparative smallness. 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 About twenty of her retinue played at foot-ball before her the space of two hours, very strongly, nimbly, and skilfully,—without any foul play offered, the smallness of their ball occasioning their fair play. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:23.870Z Meanwhile I had erected many of the building blocks of an anorexic; though I wished no attention, I felt emotionally "small" and naturally turned to dieting as a means of attaining physical smallness. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z He is a founder in half a dozen sciences, paleontology, biology, anatomy, physics and mechanics, and nothing makes one feel the smallness of the ordinary man like reading a sketch of Leonardo's achievements. Religion And Health 2011-08-12T02:00:18.323Z In babies and children the delicacy of the ridges is proportionate to the smallness of their stature. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z With that, the days’ moments of smallness — of parsed words and posturing — evaporated. This Land: Arriving at a Deal, and Reality, Through Capitol Hill?s Maze 2011-08-02T20:51:25Z She saw the act in all its smallness, but it didn’t affect her want of him. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z As he does also in the following passage— But passing over trifles, buy an astacus, Which has long hands and heavy too, but feet Of delicate smallness, and which slowly walks Over the earth's face. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z It is loved all the more for its smallness, and the better cared for. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Perhaps they learn from the Romans tolerance, the smallness of small things, and the greatness of great ones. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z These large charges for 278 tuition and room-rent are made necessary by the smallness of the general fund which pays the running expenses of the college. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z He regretted the smallness of the amount, but he said that English money was hard to come by.” Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z A tailor has already been to take my measure and he seemed surprised at the smallness of my waist. The Journal of Countess Fran?oise Krasinska Great Grandmother of Victor Emmanuel 2011-07-10T02:00:25.767Z The attention of this gentleman was arrested by this smallness of cemeterial dimensions, or place of burial. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z Owing to the smallness and darkness of all Roman provision shops, most of the inspection of wares and all the talking, bargaining, and quarrelling is perforce done upon the pavement. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z The man's smallness of mind, his contemptible selfishness, are finely indicated in the scene where he goes to look at Ruth as she lies dead. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Another weakness was the smallness of the garrison,—74,000 men were needed for the defense of Liége and Namur, and only about a hundred men were stationed in some of the forts. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z Oftentimes he presumes upon his smallness and makes himself as disagreeable as a drowsy fly in cold weather. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z A couple of brace of chikór lay on the ground at their feet, the smallness of the “bag” bearing out the accuracy of Campian’s prognostication as to the decadence of that form of sport. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z Rather above the medium height, and of finely formed frame, it needed not the smallness of her perfectly shaped hands and the artistic regularity of her features to stamp her as thoroughbred. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z When due preparation has been made, and when the eyes and nerves of the writer are in good condition, the smallness of the distinctly readable letters that may be produced is wonderful. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z There is a loneliness, unlike any other kind of loneliness; there is a feeling of smallness and weakness; a sense of the immensity of things and of the presence and nearness of God. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z Sometimes at high-water, and when the river is swollen, a seal comes in pursuit of salmon into the Findhorn, notwithstanding the smallness of the stream and its rapidity. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z But the strand whose smallness was disdained by the greater Adriance might well prove able to support the lesser. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Three thousand four hundred men faced him, and the smallness of the number is eloquent of the magnitude of their task. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z She noted the smallness of his hands and feet, the lithe, perfect body, the clean cut of his face, and she breathed: “He is a Dale—and blood does tell.” Erskine Dale?Pioneer 2011-06-13T02:00:32.327Z So Blondine unfurls her large white cotton umbrella, tucks Dolores' unwilling hand under her arm, and laments the smallness of the parasol's compass. Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel 2011-06-11T02:00:13.290Z "But he does love me," she said to herself, altogether unaware of the smallness of the place in the world occupied by negative persons like sisters—"he does love me." The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z The very smallness of the tiny garden made each of its small features the more precious. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z And again, the distance which lies between us and such stars, shrinks into incalculable smallness, when we journey in thought to other fixed stars. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z Be upfront and honest, and bask in your smallness. Don't Exaggerate Your Size 2011-05-31T04:00:00Z Consequently, life, even in its smallnesses and its meannesses, made her laugh. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Cicero could infer the littleness of the Hebrew God from the smallness of the territory he had given his people. Our Calendar 2011-05-25T02:00:17.450Z The smallness of these particles of musk which strike the sense of smell and of these particles of indigo which color several quarts of water is beyond our imagination to conceive of. In Search of a Son 2011-05-24T02:00:13.087Z A dog and a horse may be of the very same size, while the one is admired for the greatness of its bulk, and the other for the smallness. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z The smallness and isolation of their communities must necessitate close interbreeding; and I think it very possible this may cause the physical deterioration of their race.” Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z Her brace, both strap and buckle, was perfect; and the wrist it was destined to compass was not to be matched for its smallness of size! Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z In other instances the human fœtus passes through this lemurian stage to reach and even exceed the anthropoid in smallness and closeness together. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The smallness of the school had not given a wide choice of champions, and for some years the elder girls had been more interested in botany and butterfly collecting than in sports. For the School Colours 2011-04-28T02:00:12.693Z The parson, indeed, never heard anything else, as his parishioners invariably told him the same story, as a sort of delicate excuse for the smallness of their contribution. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z The first fact that we have to remember with regard to the planet Mars is the smallness of its apparent size. Are the Planets Inhabited? 2011-04-24T02:00:07.733Z A dream, a shadow—the shadow of the alien dream of things hidden in smallness, the dark dream of the rotifers. The Rotifers 2011-04-18T02:00:10.237Z But such smallness was quickly banished as she read on to the end of the letter, through a perfect maze of intricate orders and countermandings of affairs connected with Deep Willows. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z You see their smallness in everything they do and say. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z There is wisdom in smallness if only on account of the smallness and patchiness of human knowledge, which relies on experiment far more than on understanding. Does David Cameron really follow this green guru? 2011-04-01T17:01:35Z From the purity of her features, the perfect oval of her face, and the smallness of her head, she might have been taken to be of Grecian origin. Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) 2011-04-01T02:00:37.710Z For when we have a true principle evolved, however insignificant the development may be, the results, although limited by the smallness of the development, will nevertheless be right in kind. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z In Parisian flats the concierge, owing to the smallness of his wage, is generally obliged to go out to work and depute his wife to undertake his duties during his absence. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z The inhabitants were almost paralysed with astonishment and mortification at seeing the smallness of our force. Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z She was a handsome brunette, though not above six hundred and threescore fathoms high; but her agreeable attractions made amends for the smallness of her stature. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z A heavy blanket of silence seems to have fallen upon the cheerful Little House, and upon the garden, still splendid in colour and odour, in its daintily tended smallness. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z "What do you want?" he asked in a high-pitched rasping voice, squinting at me, when his customer went out, cursing him for the smallness of the amount he had received for the coat. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z One could not charge him with smallness, or any trace of pitiful envy. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Now and then he would stretch out his arms as if to measure the smallness of his house, and laugh. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z In greatness it extends to infinity, in smallness it is infinitely divisible. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z They form at once shields and supporting arches to the fingers; and they give facility in laying hold of bodies which would escape from their smallness. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z Then, in the discharge of my duties of Governor, in the management of Indian affairs, I can say, that, for the smallness of those expenses, there is no parallel to my administration in that respect. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z But all will fail from her pitiful smallness. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z The comparative smallness of his farm, however, and his former situation in life, prevented his remonstrance from being of much weight. Christmas Stories 2011-02-27T03:00:31.413Z But then--then I was ashamed of my smallness--ah, so ashamed. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z The characters of the minor beauty or prettiness, with relation to ourselves, are smallness, subordination, and subjection. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z It may be venial, however, on account of the imperfection of the act or the smallness of the matter. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z The first thing which strikes us is the exceeding smallness of the dimensions, it is like one of the little chapels you find in Glendalough and elsewhere in Ireland. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Standing on the deck and looking about, a feeling of exceeding smallness and loneliness came in upon me. Roger Davis, Loyalist 2011-02-17T03:00:22.690Z The smallness and grace of this little church gleaming with colour, its chapels and grottoes like a spiritual vision, such as I have never found elsewhere in the whole field of religious conception. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z Now, that these objects, though sublime, are beautiful, is very evident; and it is therefore also evident how much Burke erred in asserting comparative smallness to be the first character of beauty generally considered. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z It is to be regretted that the smallness of the husband's salary often compels the wife to work outside her home. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z It would have been a fine speculation for an antiquarian: but I am surprised, as he was, rather at the greatness than at the smallness of the price. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z And from this very fact, its smallness, he is not happy—for is not Mr. T—worth three millions of dollars? The Home Mission 2011-02-12T03:00:30.217Z Just as the execution of the large contracts for "optional construction," let in the low-priced period, brought on prosperity, so the smallness of such contracts, let in the high-price period, now brings on depression. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z I painted in vivid colours the smallness of my men's caps; how they fell off when they doubled, and what confusion ensued in the ranks as they all stooped to pick them up. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z The solutions of them must therefore satisfy the test of smallness of the relative displacements. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z The garden, it will be seen, as gardens go, is pathetic in its smallness and want of variety. In the Mountains 2011-01-27T03:00:37.910Z But for all her adorable smallness she carried herself with a certain arrogance. Girl Alone 2011-01-27T03:00:36.117Z The Indian had recently made it himself, and its smallness was partly compensated for by its newness, as well as stanchness and solidity, it being made of very thick bark and ribs. Canoeing in the wilderness 2011-01-19T03:00:23.683Z Some men either by the adequacy of their means or the smallness of their needs, are lifted entirely above economic conditions, so that they can reason abstractly without regard to economic conditions. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z Fortunate smallness of Scotland and lack of adjacent docile Germans has alone saved the world from another Prussia. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z And despairingly did Alex sometimes review the smallness of her deserts. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z On this information I hunted up my uncle, who had actually sold most of his trinkets, and all his watches but one, the secret of his great success being the smallness of his prices. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z Their visit was evidently one of curiosity, and we treated his Excellency with all due ceremony, notwithstanding the smallness of his dominions. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z If a knife is ground on the rim of an ordinary emery wheel worn to a small diameter, the smallness of the emery wheel will tend to make the bevel concave. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z While joining heartily in the attempts of 1857-58, he felt that an error was committed in the smallness of the cable; that the copper conductors and the gutta-percha covering should both be much larger. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph 2010-12-29T03:00:29.577Z Its wood is tough and elastic, but, owing to the smallness of its girth, it does not produce timber of any size. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Who ever kicked a dog at Christmas; or prosecuted a thief? who ever gave a beggar a penny without a blush for the smallness of the sum? Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z I think the smallness of the field Jaqua's size helped us a little bit there. Sounders FC coach Sigi Schmid quotes from Monday 2010-10-11T20:08:00Z Such smallness was intriguing because it led Venter to the philosophical question that inspired the current research — what was the minimum genome required to create life in the lab? Scientist Creates Life. That's a Good Thing, Right? 2010-05-20T20:45:00Z “And finally, she is great in her smallness,” he said. Copenhagen Journal: A Little Danish Mermaid Comes Up for Air in China 2010-04-28T00:02:00Z Something deeper and sadder is lurking here: the embarrassment of smallness. Behold, Newstralia 2010-04-09T16:54:00Z The great energies required to produce them and their smallness led him to question whether quasars really were at cosmological distances. 2010-02-07T04:22:00Z On account of the smallness of our numbers, we meet in the chaplain's cabin, and there the service is performed. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War Earl Spencer has observed, that this is fully shown in the pig, the sheep, the ox, and the horse, whose aptitude to fatten and smallness of lungs, are in the order enumerated. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. When speaking of the face, he remarks, that persons having a large forehead are of slow intellect, that smallness of that part indicates fickleness, great breadth stupidity, and roundness irascibility. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The bright queen, paramount over all, engrossed the whole hemisphere, reducing the twinkling stars to the dimensions of small satraps of distant provinces, whose smallness increased the splendour of her august majesty. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 The smallness of the interval between the boiling and freezing points is noteworthy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Its design is elaborate, exhibiting a profusion of exquisite detail gorgeous in colouring, but the smallness of its size deprives it of the element of majesty. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide But later physiologists have assumed, perhaps from closer and more accurate observations, that the fattening propensity is in the ratio of the smallness of the lungs. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. In their midst she stood of a ridiculous smallness, her big doll nearly hiding her and over its blonde head Simone's eyes peered pathetically into, as it were, a vague and terrifying world. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode This explanation is the true one, only that the apparent smallness of the stars are due to their distance, and not to their actual minuteness of size. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time And on the practical rather than on the theoretical, side there is wonder, and to my mind beauty, in the bigness and in the smallness of the spaces that man can deal with. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History He felt a benumbing realisation of his own loneliness, and of the smallness of man's aims and hopes when confronted with the impassive greatness of nature. Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests Miss Birks often congratulated herself on the fact that the smallness of her school allowed her to give a proportionately large amount of individual attention to her pupils. The School by the Sea A Frog threw his ambitious Eyes Upon an Ox, admired his size, And, from the smallness of an Egg, Endeavoured to become as big. Aesop Dress'd Or a collection of Fables Apparent size was imparted to almost every Gothic building by the smallness, great number, and variety of its features, and by the small size of the stones employed. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance What surprised me most was the comparative smallness of the sum which in the hour of our misfortunes I had thought so formidable. Glories of Spain But nightly she counted her secret store, and, angered at its smallness, worked harder and harder, worked until her shoulders ached and her hands grew knotted. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches One advantage of the smallness of the school was that it was not a lengthy matter to correct the examination papers of only twenty pupils. The School by the Sea This denial of electrical repulsion probably arose from the smallness of the pieces of electric material with which Gilbert worked. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments Indeed, it should make Betty realize the extent of his admiration for her that he had been able to overlook the smallness of her inheritance in comparison with his own needs. The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas By his step, the smallness of his stature, and the delicacy of his features, it was easy to detect a woman in male habiliments. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 He was small, yet not so small as to be noticed for smallness; he was what is called plain-looking, yet without that marked ugliness which, in a man, sometimes amounts to distinction. Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches The smallness, the untidiness, the pure joy of Squibs Bailly's study! The Guarded Heights The smallness of their numbers was the sole check on the demands and depredations of the Romans. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Erected at infinite cost after the pattern of Versailles and Marly, the smallness of its scale and the magnificence of its natural surroundings caused it infinitely to surpass either of its models in general effect. The Firebrand When that tendency comes over me I try to remember the smallness of my garden. The New Gulliver and Other Stories It was long before the natives reconciled themselves to the odd ways of the foreign settlers—the first thing that offended them was the exceeding smallness of the household bills. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Alas! you should not Measure her malice by the smallness of your own. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 He was offered the assistant-editorship; the leisure that he found for literary pursuits on his own account more than compensated for the smallness of the salary. Lafcadio Hearn But O Aunty, if my smallness makes me quake, it also makes me feel. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life Observe," he would say, "the ludicrous smallness of the head and the short and attenuated forelegs. The New Gulliver and Other Stories One of these is very local in distribution, being confined to the Caucasus, but the smallness of range is to some extent compensated for by the peculiarity of its name, which is L. mlokosiewiczi. The History of the European Fauna The public excitement had been intense, the boldness of the queen’s counsel, Brougham and Denman, unparalleled, and the ministers felt that the smallness of their majority was virtual defeat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The elephant followed him everywhere, profiting by his smallness, and where he could not go himself he sent his curling trunk. Careers of Danger and Daring And, if the waist should not be metamorphosed into unnatural smallness, so the sleeves should not be puffed out into preternatural enlargement. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 The smallness of this mouth was, to my mind, strong proof that these subterraneous chambers had never been intended for any purposes which required men to descend into them. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. The underling picked up his bag and guided him up three flights of rickety stairs into a dingy apartment, mainly remarkable for the smallness of its windows. Years of Plenty Where the Call duck and the Black East India are concerned the selection for size must be for smallness since that is a characteristic greatly desired. Ducks and Geese The small boy who had driven to meet them looked like a gnome perched upon the towering vehicle, and by his smallness confirmed the impression of hugeness. Carnival There was no vanity or smallness in his character. Thomas Jefferson There also he met a man, in the smallness of whose stakes and the desperation of his play, Sinson read ruin. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. A more convenient unit of work or energy, in practice, on account of the smallness of the erg, is the joule, which is equal to 10.7 ergs, or one watt-second of electrical energy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" One was the smallness of her size, the other her funny trick of nodding her head continually. The Eagle's Nest Jenny felt oppressed by the smallness of the bedroom and the many enlargements of Bert's likeness in youth which dwarfed every other ornament. Carnival The great defect of Bulawayo is the smallness of the water supply and the badness of it. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal Evidently they were unaware of the smallness of our force, or perhaps took us for a posse of Mounted Police. A Veldt Vendetta The advantages claimed for it were its cheapness, smallness and portability; that there was no appreciable distortion, and that its field was much larger than that of the camera obscura. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The chief peculiarities of Leptocephali, in addition to the smallness of the head, are their ribbon-like shape and their glassy transparency during life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" It is perhaps in part owing to these habits that the feet of the Cuban señorita are such a marvel of smallness and delicacy, seemingly made rather for ornament than for use. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time Their beauty, the proverbial perfection of their hands, and the smallness of their feet, do the rest in the subjection of men. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) It is as if General Tom Thumb were to grow to a decent size, and still go on imitating Napoleon, and insisting on people paying a shilling to see his smallness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 The little bride was represented standing; she leaned against a pillar nonchalantly, and outlined on a light background, the extreme smallness of her figure was clearly shown. Anne But owing to the lateness of the season and the smallness of his force he returned to Gaul after a brief reconnaissance. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. But mere smallness is not a beauty in a foot more than in any other part of the body. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. The first point to be emphasized is that nothing whatever is said as to the smallness of a single object that may be made visible. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" When large vessels get aground here, they are inevitably lost; whereas the smallness of Zuazo's vessel was the very means of his preservation. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. You are aware, gentlemen, of the smallness of our numbers, we must, therefore, be the more upon our guard, and fancy the enemy will each moment fall upon us. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. She was pleased with the phrase; it seemed to clear her own feeling of any possible charge of smallness. Fidelity A Novel The bed chambers were usually placed between the outer walls of the house and the more important rooms; the only remarkable features about them were their smallness and inconvenience. Roman Women And I never can complain of the smallness of the house after such a party! Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) The smallness of this opening was an assistance. Toilers of the Sea Every soldier is fond of catching hold of the enemy's lance with his hand, but considering the smallness of our numbers, we must now particularly guard ourselves against it. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. While writing "Jane Eyre" she became intensely concerned in the fortunes of her heroine, whose smallness and plainness corresponded with her own. Methods of Authors His smallness was emphasised by the vastness of Mrs. Withers, whose white silk bodice, cut low at the neck, and black skirt, fitted her amorously, as if the wearer's intention were to diminish her size. Adventures of Bindle Yet he preserved its dignity by 54the wide opening of the central arch, the height of which is emphasised by the smallness of the two arches on either side. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Nor is he to blame for the smallness of this number. The Burning of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania Considering the smallness of our numbers we reposed our greatest hopes in the use we intended making of our lances, in which fortunately we were not disappointed, as will afterwards be seen. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. But Cutter did not react, only looked at Bolen, as though he could see somehow, beneath that smallness and quietness, a certain strength. Confidence Game Their neatness, smallness, and self-complacency irritate him excessively. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June It is probably the ignorance of these relations which, more than the smallness of the topics themselves, makes feminine talk fatiguing to you. The Intellectual Life And she nodded her head, and the stars on high Sparkled down on her smallness from out of the sky. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems Yet, in spite of the smallness of the dimensions, the first impression is one of vastness. Japan A Record in Colour All three of the participants in the battle at forty miles an hour, were hampered by the smallness of the interior. Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant I've seen smallness and ambition before—pettiness and treachery, plenty of it. Derelict The smallness of the leaves troubled me greatly at first, not knowing that they grow broad after opening. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. The mist happily concealed the smallness of our force, otherwise the Prussians might have crushed us at once. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II Thanks to the smallness of our party, no one suspected who we were. Francezka The trenchers on which they were eating were almost as white as their linen; and notwithstanding the number and smallness of the children, there was not the least appearance of dirt or litter. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Beyond the point a the curve may be imagined to continue to an infinite degree of smallness, always circling nearer and nearer to a point, which, however, it can never reach. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) When the people sang for us in Anaho, they must apologise for the smallness of their repertory. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) We were surprised at the smallness of the saucers containing the fruit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 The striking inward curve of her back, as well as the wasp-like smallness of her waist, appeared to be the result of too-tight lacing. Weird Tales. Vol. I "More than you would expect," replied he, "from the seeming smallness of it; but there are some little hamlets which you do not see." The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales The reader was, perhaps, surprised by the smallness of the number to which our foregoing analysis reduced Alpine summits bearing an ascertainedly peaked or pyramidal form. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Yet who shall blame them, when the Chief Justice, with a smallness of rapacity at which all men wondered, refused to pay, and I believe, still withholds the duties on his imports? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Together were The primal intellect. all things infinite in number and smallness; nothing was distinguishable. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition There is something very sinister about this smallness and narrowness and steepness. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium I own in disarray; As to the flowers of May The frosts of Winter, To my poetic rage, The smallness of the page And of the printer. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers The six specimens from two localities in Colorado available to Cockrum and Fitch exhibited evidence of intergradation at one locality, and atypical smallness at the other locality. Mammals of the Grand Mesa, Colorado This gave rise to a roar, high-pitched—owing to the smallness of the hole—like a wolf's howl. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers It suffers from smallness of numbers, from infrequency of meetings, and from changes of locality. A History of the English Church in New Zealand Now that I was 296 on the roof I was able to appreciate more than ever the smallness of the studio. The House by the Lock The moral smallness of the man is insisted on from the first, in the shudder of uncontrollable jealousy with which he sees Duncan embracing Banquo. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Globes are thus produced at the lowest rate of cheapness, as regards the number of laborers, and with very moderate profits to the manufacturer, on account of the smallness of his returns. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. But this anomaly creates no inquietude or apprehension, because the exotics, from the smallness of their number, are known to be utterly incapable of disturbing the general tranquillity. Thoughts on African Colonization The chief reason for the smallness of this gathering was the attitude of the diocese of Christchurch. A History of the English Church in New Zealand The smallness of the State produces a corresponding meanness of spirit, a narrowness of outlook. German Problems and Personalities The comparative smallness of the variable costs is chiefly due to the fact that the carrying capacity of railroads is only partially used. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy Now and then, however, extreme smallness in a senior scholar gives a new kind of dignity, by reason of the testimony it bears to the ascendency of the intellect. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Its smallness removes it from sight of all but the most exact collectors. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species An infinitely small jest occurs to me in connection with the historic umbrella: and perhaps its infinite smallness attracts me. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing I almost felt inclined to apologize for its smallness, but his courtesy in accepting it rendered excuses unnecessary. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 He ate very little, and Jacob felt more kindly towards him than before this proof of the smallness of his appetite. Try Again or, the Trials and Triumphs of Harry West. A Story for Young Folks The surrounding glare threw out and exaggerated the man’s 147 smallness; it seemed no less perilous an enterprise, this that he was gone upon, than for a whelp to besiege a citadel. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) Every minute which she spent in the house increased her familiarity with it; and her youth and smallness captivated the three middle-aged servants, who were glad to have somebody there whom they could advise. Coquette Here he gave Hugo a slap on the back that nearly knocked him down, for dwarfs are very strong in spite of their smallness, you know. Fairy Tales from the German Forests Sir John she had dismissed already from her mind; she hated him, that was enough; for whatever Seraphina hated or contemned fell instantly to Lilliputian smallness, and was thenceforward steadily ignored in thought. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) Wherever, by the smallness of the parts, we may be driven to abandon the incrusted structure at all, it must be abandoned altogether. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), The smallness of his following we may suppose to have been reported. 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