How To Use Bigness In A Sentence
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Truly, it is that bigness that we all should be seeking.
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The Waterloo Stage production loses some of the bigness of the musical numbers, however, by replicating the brass and woodwind instruments on a synthesizer.
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VCs can help you jumpstart, sure, but raising 100 or 400 million dollars to skip all the steps on the way to bigness is rare indeed.
July 2004
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But others appreciate his campness, his bigger than bigness.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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So are they hypothesizing that it is the males 'bigness and strongness that hurt their postmating reproductive success?
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One aspect of the movement towards bigness is the development we have just noted, the growth of regional trading groups, at present mainly in Western Europe but being emulated in Latin America, the Middle East and elsewhere.
Expanding TradeThe Positive Approach to Economic Growth
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In 1608, the receipt for box-trees cut down upon the sheepwalk on the hill was 50_l_.; in an account taken in 1712, it is supposed that as much had been cut down, within a few years before, as amounted to 3,000_l_.; and in 1759, a Mr. Miller lamented that "the trees on Box Hill had been pretty much destroyed; though many remained of considerable bigness.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828
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For now, such notions of bigness play well in political circles but thankfully not in all banking ones.
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Mays has eyes that rival Heather Graham's in bigness and roundness and she can fill them with a sadness that would make her look like a puppy in the rain if she didn't also fill them with mischief.
What work is. A review of Paul Blart: Mall Cop by way of a gigantic spoiler
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For instance, if I say “the big, glorious red fortress,” you understand that the definite article captures ideas about the bigness and gloriousness and redness of the fortress as well as that of the fortress itself.
The English Is Coming!
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I love New York for the very qualities of bigness, boldness, and brashness that some seem to despise.
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We remember with a thrill of pride that England produced Shakespeare, but we must also remember that this great Dominion of ours, flung from sea to sea, with a national life as bounding in vigour as it is defective in character, with the stamp of bigness on both its accomplishment and its promise, is without a stage of its own, is without a school of dramatists, is without one dramatic composition in, any way expressive of its wider issues.
The Interpreters of Canada
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By coming together in groups of 10, 30, or 300, small companies are gaining the benefits of bigness.
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Herehence we sailed to a place called Arica; and, being entered the port, we found there three small barks, which we rifled, and found in one of them fifty-seven wedges of silver, each of them weighing about 20 lb. weight, and every of these wedges were of the fashion and bigness of a brickbat.
Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World
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And then she stared hard at him, noting the steady, cold, alert eyes; the firm lips; the bigness of him, the atmosphere of capableness that seemed to surround him; the low-swung guns at his hips, with no flaps on the holster-tops, and the bottoms of the holsters tied to his leather chaps with rawhide thongs.
'Drag' Harlan
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‘When you see the bigness of a show like that and the impact it makes, you can't help but want to do something like that,’ John said.
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Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness — electrons deify one razorblade into a mountainrange; lenses extend unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish returns on its unself.
Vitro Nasu » 2005 » June
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So soone as we were come to an anker in Totnes rode vnder Mount Raleigh, we espied foure white beares at the foot of the mount: we supposing them to be goats or wolues, manned our boats and went towards them: but when we came neere the shore, we found them to be white beares of a monstrous bignesse: we being desirous of fresh victuall and the sport, began to assault them, and I being on land, one of them came downe the hill right against me: my piece was charged with hailshot and a bullet: I discharged my piece and shot him in the necke; he roared a litle, and tooke the water straight, making small account of his hurt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
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A second disk of dough goes on top and is pressed in place to make a single large raviolo (ravioli is the plural), or, to be more exact, a raviolone (the last syllable, an Italian "augmentative," implies bigness beyond the normal) with a raw yolk inside.
Playing With Our Food
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I didn't have words to describe the giddy sense of bigness, of far awayness, that overwhelmed me.
She Sank Into the Sand
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Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy.
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Like so many ills of today's society, the cult of bigness has American origin.
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The leaves are brond and thort, of the bigness of one's thunib-tiail, and of
The Family Herbal,: And of the Drugs which are Produced by Vegetables of Other Countries : with ...
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Suppose a Man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a Cube, and a Sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and t'other; which is the Cube, which the Sphere.
Molyneux's Problem
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This bigness of heart, this largesse of the soul, is a characteristic of hers that has been remarked on frequently, though in all honesty I must say I have never experienced it firsthand.
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It's the nature of bigness and corporateness to do that.
Ranchero.com
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I find that statement particularly significant in that it has a pejorative connotation: bigness is apparently assumed to require restraint.
The New Society: New Title, Same Old Debate
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While mere bigness is not the criteria, the optimum sized industry really is the criteria of contribution to productivity.
The Resultant of Forces
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Second, that enforcement of those norms and customs could have been essential for group cohesion and harmony, especially as groups got bigger (bigness is important in battles against other groups).
The Selfless Gene
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In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
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All the talk about the current problems coming from the gradual repeal of the Glass Steagal from 1980 to 2000 are generally barking up the wrong tree, the gradual allowance of interstate banking (where banks could take deposits and have branches in more than one state), which occurred concurrently, and led to bigger and bigger banks would seem to have mattered far more, if bigness is where the badness is coming from.
Matthew Yglesias » The Paulson/Yglesias Small Bank Plan
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Aboue in this great Court paued as aforesayd, in the passage towardes the Porche, some tenne paces, I beheld a prodigious winged vaughting horse, of moulten brasse, of an exceeding bignesse, his wings fanning out.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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Architecturally its bigness was exaggerated by the close spacing of the aluminium structure shooting upwards from the Gothic arches at the base.
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To be sure, there were aspects of Germany he did not care for -- he found Berlin suffering from the same "modernness, ugliness, and bigness" of Boston -- and at the end of his second semester he moved to England, which he found
Dan Miller: "Harvard, We Have a Problem"
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Running about three hours and structured over a broad first act and a swifter second, the opera revels in its bigness.
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California cannot claim firstness, it does have the claim on bigness and that really matters.
Harry Fuller: De-regulation is Good. Will California Finally Kill This Myth?
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I DO wonder if we're seeing another variation of the Caldecott problem, wherein bigness, ambition and (some say) egotism win the prize, and that these themselves are culturally coded as male virtues.
Ladies-in-Waiting
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{226} (1) While making all allowance for the feeling of insignificance and forlornness which is apt to overwhelm us when we begin to realise the immensity of the material universe, a little closer thought should make it obvious that nothing in the nature of mere bulk or bigness furnishes even a reasonable presumption, let alone a convincing argument, against the survival of the soul; it is indeed difficult to perceive what legitimate bearing these physical phenomena are supposed to have upon a purely spiritual question.
Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive