How To Use Infinitely In A Sentence
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This principle, however, affords a safer means of navigating than the orthopter type, because the blades of such an instrument can be forced through the air with infinitely greater speed than beating wings, and it devolves on the inventor to devise some form of apparatus which will permit the change of pull from a vertical to a horizontal direction while in flight.
Aeroplanes
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On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
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The teachings show that our spirit and body are infinitely connected to all the things around us.
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What a charming possession of himself, that he could be in such a brangle, as I may call it, and which might have had fatal consequences; yet be so wholly, and so soon, divested of the subject; and so infinitely agreeable upon half a score others, as they offered from one or other as we sat at tea!
Sir Charles Grandison
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_Educated rascality is infinitely more of a menace to society than ignorant rascality_.
Pushing to the Front
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The use of the linguistic frame ‘as A said to B’ is therefore potentially infinitely productive, even if examples are ephemeral, singular, and difficult to collect.
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English blood, had a kind of hankering after it, and would almost rather have such at his board than even a true-born American; and infinitely more welcome were they than Frenchman, Spaniard, or
Erema
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When truth is forsaken, errors multiply in infinitum -- infinitely.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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And a varied collection of sofas and chairs is infinitely more interesting than matching sets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mutoscope widens the use of motion-photography infinitely.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
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Greaves achieves considerable intensity on this tiny scale through his mastery of infinitely subtle tonal gradations, often in black and brown or gray hues that evoke the palette of old photographs.
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Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.
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Like an Escher print, this is music that seems to ascend infinitely over a nearly twelve-minute span.
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I propose a continuous tax as an infinitely differentiable monotonic curve over the open set domain (0, inf) with a range of (0,1), where total taxes owed is simply and elegantly calculated by integrating the CONTINUOUS TAX-RATE from 0 to x (x being income)
Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax
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Disability varies infinitely in degree and in kind.
Times, Sunday Times
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But surely there's a reason football is infinitely more popular than futsal.
The Sun
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It simply exists in an inoffensive and unexciting realm of commonplaceness that makes it incapable of standing out among the pack of infinitely better racers available for any of its chosen platforms.
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Wit and intelligence are infinitely more potent than mere youth.
Times, Sunday Times
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A moment in heaven is infinitely pleasurable, so even if heaven lasts no longer than that, that moment outweighs a lifetime of Epicurean pleasures.
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His material is leather, and his specialty is fitting a saddle to the infinitely varied human pelvis.
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If neutron degeneracy is not enough to resist the star's collapse it will continue to shrink until the matter is all compressed into an infinitely small, infinitely dense point called a singularity.
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This was an infinitely old notion, going back to the early Bronze Age.
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Pepper, though, was of infinitely more moment to the ancients than to be merely a topping, nostrum, or cachou.
Excerpt: Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
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Light shone around her, constant, as constant as daylight, but infinitely harsher; it was unnatural, artificial.
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Topology'there was a fertile field for intellectual riddlesi Shapes that were infinitely distortable without sacrificing their fundamental qualities.
Blue Adept
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The pivotal moment came, we're told, when newfangled plastic wheels made skateboards infinitely faster and smoother than they'd ever been before.
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That copying something, that sharing something on - line which is infinitely duplicable and there right in front of you natural is different from taking, from going into a store and like sneaking out of it.
CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2009
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The minimal, magisterial formal aesthetic of the latter though is clearly of another realm to Requiem's crude, lazy, sledgehammer style, and is infinitely more riveting and rewarding.
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The Hampton Jitney has an Ambassador Service, which is infinitely more comfortable than the regular jitney.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? Everybody Sleeps Where? In the Hamptons Part 1
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I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some kind of body in space, either infused into the world, or infinitely diffused beyond the world -- and this was the incorruptible, inviolable, unchangeable substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the violable, and the changeable.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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He didn't mind, so long as the piss was absorbed by the fleecy innards of his pants and didn't trickle down his leg, which was infinitely more foul.
Graeme King and the Creature
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MM handles my 16,000 files with aplomb, is infinitely customizable if you're into looks, supports all sorts of plug-ins, runs like hot knife through butter, and, of course, scans my watch folder for any changes (and does so in less than one minute at startup).
IWatchSyncer Automatically Adds New Music To iTunes | Lifehacker Australia
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Because this legislation, which entrenches the power of traditional leaders over their rural subjects, will make life infinitely worse for the 15 million overwhelmingly poor people who live in the former Bantustans.
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The pride of the poor people is infinitely great, and exceeded by nothing but their poverty, in some parts, which adds to that which I call their misery; and I must needs think the savages of America live much more happy than the poorer sort of these, because as they have nothing, so they desire nothing; whereas these are proud and insolent and in the main are in many parts mere beggars and drudges.
The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
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The great mass of nonowning farmers - tenants and sharecroppers - would be infinitely better off.
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Postmodernism has not eliminated the need for grand narratives, but it has infinitely complicated their writing by abrading the link between human experience and what used to be called ‘political economy’.
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One good fiction can often feel infinitely preferable to two stolid facts.
Times, Sunday Times
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You remember the almost rough 'No!' with which, reiteratedly, he met the suggestions of the deputation from Jerusalem that sought to induce him to say that he was more than he knew himself to be, and how he stuck by that infinitely humble and beautiful saying, 'I am a voice' -- that is all.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
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The refusal to see it, to be touched by it, which was so infinitely better than either sympathy or enthusiasm.
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The laser cutting will be affected infinitely not only in quality but also in efficiency if there are some rust, paint or other else feculence.
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Nay, but he is sent, and that in a state of humiliation and condescendency, infinitely below his own dignity.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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The improbability will be the greater, the more complicated the routes; and it will become impossibility, if the zigzags are infinitely complicated.
Evolution créatrice. English
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Disability varies infinitely in degree and in kind.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Soviets executed soldiers on an infinitely greater scale, either after due process or as summary military punishment.
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Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.
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And a varied collection of sofas and chairs is infinitely more interesting than matching sets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each of you wasted a person who was infinitely more talented than you, and for what?
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England, and the worthy progenitors of our L. the K. that now is, and by himself also vnder a certain form confirmed: euen so he is determined (without the preiudice of forren lawes) vpon iust mature, and sober deliberation, by his royall authorise to withstand such priuiledges, as by reason of the abuse thereof, haue bene infinitely preiudiciall vnto himselfe and his subiects.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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I am a contented father and life is more precious, infinitely more fragile.
Times, Sunday Times
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But this is the city which gave the world ‘Salaam Bombay,’ for it to salute the undying spirit of a metropolis which glories in its infinitely multipliable complementary contradictions: its grime and glitz, insularity and cosmopolitanism, arrogance and vulnerability, its indifference and unexpected caring.
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The aunt is a well-drawn type of old-fashioned Scotchwoman, infinitely more natural and more interesting than the niece.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Grace reigning is a reverence of God, and gives honour to him who is infinitely great and high, and to whom all honour is due, than which what is more becoming or should be more pleasing to the rational creature?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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But it does not extend infinitely, as false sentimentalism would have us believe.
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He abominated such manifestations of the debasement of the modern age as cars, wireless sets and refrigerators; cherished the past; feared the future; and found in the societies he investigated a way of life and a moral attitude that seemed infinitely more important than anything on offer in the "civilized" West.
Drawn to Harsh Places
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Sooner than such an inversion of social order, I would welcome even Turkish bondage; for surely utter ignorance is infinitely preferable to erudite unwomanliness.
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And when it comes to illness some of the systems of bathing and exercising prescribed by the "naturopath" are infinitely more troublesome to the patient and his friends than the simple expedient of sending for the doctor and taking the prescribed doses.
Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses
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The student has now acquired sufficient knowledge to be able to soundly judge the infinitely more complex matter of a human life.
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It is infinitely more difficult to make an accurate assessment of the immediate past and of the present.
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And it's seemingly unending, like the infinitely repeated punishments of hell.
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Alois: The big-eyed big-gobbed Rita Tushingham first came to our attention in A Taste of Honey (another Richardson sixties triumph), and then The Knack, with the infinitely watchable Ray Brooks, and a bit part at the beginning and end of Doctor Zhivago.
Hero of the Light Brigade
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You see infinitely detailed multicoloured fractal alphabets, they see growing paisley patterns.
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Existence is always infinitely indebted to this absolute antecedence, this inconceivable origin.
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Better still, it's a breeze to make and infinitely expansible and adaptable in its ingredients.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyway, there are so many more things that Michael Steele has said which are infinitely more offensive and while a public figure like Steele should be more sensitive than your average bear to racially tinged caricaturing, I think we need to take a deep breath and focus more on the disastrous policies he and his America-hating conservative enablers have in store for this country than any buffoonish slips of the tongue.
Think Progress » Native-American GOP Congressman Calls Steele’s ‘Honest Injun’ Comments ‘Unacceptable’
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The other, which they called the patriotic contribution, was expected to amount to a fourth of the fortunes of individuals, but at their own will and on their own estimate; but this contribution threatening to fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory, both in the rate and in the levy, beginning in fraud, and ending, as all the frauds of power end, in plain violence.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
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But once all these types of stories cease to be published -- and features by their nature rely on the leisureliness of print reading and generous photographic layouts that lure in the semi-curious reader -- I worry we'll have lost the shared understanding and celebration of Chicago as an infinitely unpredictable, loving, misguided, charming, ugly, pretty and charismatic city.
David Murray: The Socially Catastrophic Demise of the Light Feature Story
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More systematic than previous repressions, the example did much to ensure that revolts did not recur, even during the infinitely harsher and more extortionate later years of the reign.
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He was infinitely more assured than in his more recent parliamentary appearances.
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When he closed his speech, which was quite as savage as any made against him, and infinitely abler, no one desired to reply, and the idea of censuring him was dropped.
Hero Tales from American History
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The critical composition at which phase separation is first detected is then and which indicates that at infinitely large chain length.
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Having the Senate go from supinely emulating the Weimar Reichstag's Enabling Act (with infinitely less excuse than the Germans) to becoming themselves the defier of constitutional constraints.
Senate Dems To Block Burris' Path To Senate -- Perhaps Even Literally
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But it is not this that allows him to trace his ancestors; it is the fact that he has another title, much older than dukedoms and infinitely grander in its simplicity.
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I am infinitely grateful that you are in my small life.Happiest of Birthdays from your dear friend.
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In fact, the only space that could hold such disparity is the realm of fiction itself, an infinitely elastic space where anything is possible.
A Bit of an Experiment « Tales from the Reading Room
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It is infinitely more difficult to make an accurate assessment of the immediate past and of the present.
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Hence a curve has a unique evolute but infinitely many involutes.
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So the light kept going in spectral balance from dense light to split and back to dense light and split, in spectral cycles infinitely repeated.
Harry Martinson - Poetry
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Even the most tenuous thread of story is infinitely better than none at all.
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But I have to say, things are changing in a couple of places where they now hold an infinitely more enjoyable street hooley instead.
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One of Eckhart's key ideas is that God is infinitely greater than anything we can think about him, and that one of the problems with religion is that we absolutise our metaphors and our struggle to say something about God.
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His sheer range, typically combining complexity with emotional immediacy, makes his music infinitely usable.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was fantastic and, I must confess, infinitely preferable to staying on my feet for two hours.
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And a varied collection of sofas and chairs is infinitely more interesting than matching sets.
Times, Sunday Times
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In principle there are infinitely many three-dimensional forms that could correspond to a given two-dimensional perspective picture.
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We now move to the other pole of the primary polarity, that is to the plane, and let the sphere arise by imagining the plane approaching an infinitely distant point evenly from all sides.
Man or Matter
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Infinitely reassuring was the unresting, unhurried suspiration of the air-pumps, driving the man-made trade winds of this tiny planet.
The Sands of Mars
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Surely, inflation will continue in this future, and a surrogate is an infinitely more complex piece of technology than is, say, an iPod, iPhone, or the best available laptop.
A new day, a new digest, a new blog title.
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He looked cool and infinitely experienced, listening apparently with grave attention to the herald's formal announcement.
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Dehn had studied the squaring problem in 1903 and proved that a rectangle can be squared if and only if its sides are commensurable and that if it can be squared then there are infinitely many perfect squarings.
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Jupiter or Sirius from the earth is ascertained; and though there is a triangle still more vast, its base extending either way from us, with and past the horizon into immensity, and its apex infinitely distant above us; to which corresponds a similar infinite triangle belo _what is above equalling what is below, immensity equalling immensity_; -- yet the
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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Understood in the neo-Scholastic sense, the mold represents the infinitely reproducible semblables.
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I was infinitely blessed to get it all, but that leaves me in my present predicament - yamless, on my toes, spinning as fast as I possibly can.
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After all, occasionally I get to see something special like a lumpsucker, and these drifts are infinitely better than the even-scabbier ledges to be found on Lulworth banks.
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These systems are infinitely variable.
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Within the singularity, matter is infinitely compressed into a region of infinite density.
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He often experienced the self not as infinitely removed from particulars but as hopelessly enmeshed in them.
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Moreover, in "Szomorú Napok" will be found some of Jókai's most original characters, notably, the ludicrous, if infinitely mischievous, political crotcheteer, "Numa Pompilius;" the drunken cantor, Michael Kordé, whose grotesque adventure in the dog-kennel is a true _Fantasiestück à la
The Day of Wrath
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One word authoritatively declaring man's immortality, a word which by infallible token I could know to be a word from the Supreme, would to me be worth infinitely more than all the conjectures, hopes, and reasonings of all the philosophers.
Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra
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But a slow and thoughtful process that goes nowhere is infinitely preferable to rushing to pass the first crazy law that you barfed out of your brainpan while stewing in a broth of worry, adrenaline, and panic.
Lawmakers And The Crazy Laws They Want To Pass In The Wake Of Tucson Tragedy
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You are infinitely precious to me.
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It's a good example of life being infinitely more powerful than drama.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this was served atop a gratinée of small Gaspé shrimp, infinitely thin noodles and a hint of Thai spice.
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There would still be something left to live for, and who could tell whether that something might not be infinitely grander and nobler and more satisfying than even the rapture of flying ten miles an hour on his wheel, or chevying a flock of agitated sheep from one pasture to another?
Austin and His Friends
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And Tib rises out of that little domestic struggle, covered with glory and crowned with respect; her price so infinitely beyond rubies, that "invaluable" is the only term that can be applied to her; and accordingly Dr. McNab, Mr. Malcolm, and the poor little suffering feverish Dagon himself, unanimously agree that she is invaluable; and the slight rustle of her voluminous silk gown, as she moves across the room to fetch the bottle of colchicum, with the soft slow heavy tread of the elephant, is music to her Dagon's ears.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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Instead, you used pliers to pry at the window, ruining the seals and denting the window frame, making it infinitely more expensive to fix.
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It relies for its maintenance upon an infinitely complex and delicate tissue of relations and activities, some humble and others grand.
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There were none, whose behaviour shined brighter in the eyes of men, nor whose heart was more loathsome in the eyes of God; for they did all to be seen and talked of; and (as it were) to ride in triumph upon the tongues of men; and, in fine, were the arrantest puritans in the world, those only of a later date excepted, who, it is confessed, have infinitely outdone their original.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.
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The human face and the human body are simply not that capacious: the bad things we do are infinitely worse than the bad ways we look.
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Except for the stench of epoxy, the tunnel was a lot more habitable and infinitely safer.
CORMORANT
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But it is infinitely worse if you are so divided that it is apparent you can not take any action at all.
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The main problem for the latter is the general covariance of the field equations of General Relativity: any spacetime model and its image under a diffeomorphism (a infinitely differentiable, one-one and onto mapping of the model to itself) are in all observable respects equivalent to one another; all physical properties are expressed in terms of generally covariant relationships between geometrical objects.
Structural Realism
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And why the kerfuffle over canine vectorship when you're infinitely more likely to catch something life-threatening from the food itself, or something noxious from the kid at the next table (who is "quite naturally" a better vector than any dog) — and no one's banning food or children.
Should we be more like the French and invite dogs to dinner?
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
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The crew bunks in a decaying hotel with infinitely unfurling tenebrous corridors.
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The colt proved infinitely more malleable.
Times, Sunday Times
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So why is it that we protoplasmatic characters settle for an infinitely more inferior ownership and resiliency of self-value, power and worth?
The Power of Resiliency
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It is infinitely superior either to the round or edgebone, and certainly not so extravagant as the last-named joint.
Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it
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Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man
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‘Here,’ he said, and his voice was deep and rich, resonant and infinitely caring.
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Later the Chinese made the westward journey of Mormon converts infinitely more convenient by building the transcontinental railway.
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The timer is then set up to run four seconds later, looping infinitely.
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Jake's dark eyes betrayed that he was in a state of worried shock in itself, but it seemed to vanish when Vivian's blessed lips spread into a infinitely joyful smile.
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A voluntary scheme would be infinitely preferable.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is what we call morphology, which consists in tracing out the unity in variety of the infinitely diversified structures of animals and plants.
Autobiography and Selected Essays
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Travel is infinitely more comfortable now than it used to be.
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Certainly, therefore, anger, and the like affections, can by no means be ascribed to the infinitely perfect God in the proper and usual acceptation of the words, but only by an anthropopathy; attributing that to God, which bears some analogy and proportion to what we find in men.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
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Knowing you, Roger, I prob- ably take infinitely better care of it than you would.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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A celebration with roots in history, that has developed and spread spontaneously, is infinitely preferable to picking the birthday (in January, no less) of a single man.
Stromata Blog:
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It's a curious belief, undoubtedly, consisting in the main of the idea that the Torah (the first five books of the Old Testament), being the unmediated word of God, can be infinitely recombined to produce divine wisdom.
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The arteries here extend into very small vessels, which are called arterioles, and from these infinitely small vessels spring the equally minute radicals or roots of the veins, which are ultimately to become the great rivers bearing the blood back to the heart.
Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink
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The upper is Nylon 6 that can go back to caprolactam, the bottom, a polyolephine -- infinitely recyclable thermoplastic.
William McDonough on cradle to cradle design
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The Fables comics are an infinitely entertaining and moving series of comics about a world in which every fable, legend and belief of humanity has been chased from the worlds of fantasy to exile on Earth, hiding in a secret side-street in Manhattan.
Peter & Max: the Fables comics jump to novel - Boing Boing
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Unrepentant for past crimes and ungoverned by reason or morality, he relentlessly seeks tools to commit infinitely worse offenses against humanity.
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During our passage in the track-schuyt I had an evidence to the contrary, for as we glided noiselessly and almost imperceptibly along, a lady told me that she infinitely preferred the three-horse power of the schuyt to the hundred-horse power of the steam-packet.
Olla Podrida
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They weren't what we knew there was no lemon zest to the shortcake but they were infinitely better than the packeted variety.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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Corney McVeigh stepped across the ancient threshold and gazed long and searchingly at the face in the darkened parlor; a face seamed and thin with toil and worry, yet infinitely sweet and motherlike to the world-lost man who choked back the tears as he felt again that almost forgotten child-love.
Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road
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Diego couldn't say he enjoyed sleep per se, but there were times when he found it infinitely better than being awake.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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Berating Jews with their own history, disinheriting them of pity, as though pity is negotiable or has a sell-by date, is the latest species of Holocaust denial, infinitely more subtle than the David Irving version with its clunking body counts and quibbles over gas-chamber capability and chimney sizes.
Howard Jacobson speaks his mind
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So when we look at genius or child prodigies or musical geniuses or idiot savants, these are clues to the mystery of that infinitely creative mind that we can tap into.
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They are infinitely malleable, which is their greatest power and their greatest weakness.
SharePoint Blogs / SharePoint University
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Just in the same manner the aesthetic determinableness comes in contact with the mere want of determination in a single point, by both excluding every distinct determined existence, by thus being in all other points nothing and all, and hence by being infinitely different.
The Works of Frederich Schiller
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Now, when modern topologists study knots, they assume the knots are constructed out of perfectly flexible, perfectly stretchable, infinitely thin string.
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In comparison, my grandfather's voice was a deep, rich Irish burr that was almost unintelligible, although it was infinitely easier to understand in person that it had ever been over the phone.
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What he had heard from Malinche had greatly raised his curiosity with regard to her country, and his longing to see these people, whom she described as invincible in war, and so infinitely superior in civilization to the Tabascans.
By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
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Surely modern life can pave the road to infinitely more happiness?
Times, Sunday Times
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Then, collect a few play-proof details to keep you looking modern… like a forever-comfortable espadrille because it's an infinitely more fresh choice than an ordinary pair of trainers.
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Sitting in what was once a Corsetry Fitting Room, after several jorums, I began to see History with an infinitely greater clarity.
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I am forever enslaved to him for his love, for his teaching, for his infinitely manifested charity and sweetness, and this enslavement is guerdon of my existence, in that it has taught me freedom, and led to where, within my capacity, I might view and explore the wide spaces of life and thinking.
PREFACE:
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He spent much, and had much use of his Subjects purses, which bred some clashings with them in Parliament, yet would alwayes come off, and end with a sweet and plausible close; and truly his bounty was not discommendable, for his raising Favourites was the worst: Rewarding old servants, and releiving his Native Country-men, was infinitely more to be commended in him, then condemned.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
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Both the Cartesian plenum theorists, who held that the world was full of infinitely divisible matter and that there was no void space, and the atomists such as Gassendi, who held that there were indivisible atoms and void space in which the atoms move, made the distinction between these two classes of properties.
John Locke
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You could then set up a relay radio every one - 15 miles and stretch that network out infinitely.
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Everything must be A or not A" (_extended_, if you please, or _not extended_); but in its subordinate form, "Everything extended must be extended infinitely or finitely," it is only applicable, and only intended by Hamilton to be applied, to those _phenomena_ which are already given as extended in some degree.
The Philosophy of the Conditioned
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The inside of the cabinet door is inlaid with a heptagonal figure drawn from a single, infinitely recursive line.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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There is the almost impossibly small world of gluons and mesons and quarks, but also the infinitely vast cosmological field strewn with uncountable galaxies.
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This model of the canopy consists of a number of infinitely extended horizontal canopy layers.
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We have a bank of knowledge that is infinitely more urgent than any politician can understand but we have to be careful not to over-egg the rhetorical advocacy because the evidence is that, if we do, people run in the other direction.
How the Observer brought the WWF into being
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His design was infinitely better than anything I could have done.
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The institution of the church -- and here I mean the hierarchy -- particularly in its historic desire to shield itself from any and all critique by "outsiders," and its deep-seated desire to avoid "scandal," as well as the tendency of some curial officials to blame the church, made the problem of sexual abuse, which is probably just as rampant in other groups, infinitely worse.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Sin Inside the Church
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The beds of rivers and the alluvia are there to tell that all the water was not in a solid state at that time, that the glaciers were much more extended than in our days, and that the courses of the rivers were infinitely more abundant.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892
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Scanning verse is infinitely more complex that we lead students to realize (lest they despair), so I would say that the meter of the line is perfectly acceptable OE verse, though, as you point out, it doesn't alliterate.
The Poetics of Tolkien Europop
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Every kind of domestic suffering that is bred in poverty, illness, banishment, sorrow, and long travel in bad weather, was crammed into the little space; and yet was there infinitely less of complaint and querulousness, and infinitely more of mutual assistance and general kindness to be found in that unwholesome ark, than in many brilliant ballrooms.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Infinitely many sequences result from Viswanath's rule.
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We have infinitely more microphones and loudspeakers than they had in the twenties.
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Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.
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As a class, professional golfers are swell well-scrubbed chaps and chaplets, infinitely preferable to professional wrestlers or professional loan sharks.
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It's an infinitely pretty tangle of vaulted streets, tiny bridges and pottery shops.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hence a curve has a unique evolute but infinitely many involutes.
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The River Aare, has crystal-clear water coming straight down from the Alps, making it cooler than a lake, but infinitely more fun.
Urban swimming in Switzerland
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The night was very large , and very strange, stretching its hoary distances infinitely.
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There is something infinitely satisfying and basic to sitting down to a table laden with roast chicken, cornbread, potatoes, asparagus and raspberries.
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I propose a continuous tax as an infinitely differentiable monotonic curve over the open set domain (0, inf) with a range of (0,1), where total taxes owed is simply and elegantly calculated by integrating the CONTINUOUS TAX-RATE from 0 to x (x being income)
Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax
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English imperial georgics describe imperial expansion in such a way that virtuous, civilizing labor is rendered infinitely progressive.
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From that conception, the Aether has been gradually perfected, until we have the conception which has been presented to the reader in Chapter IV., in which I have endeavoured to show that this aetherial medium is matter, but infinitely more rarefied and infinitely more elastic, but notwithstanding its extreme rarefaction and elasticity, it possesses inertia, because it is gravitative.
Aether and Gravitation
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Glass fibre cables can carry infinitely more information than copper wires and every glass strand needs a protective coating.
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One has certainly not said all that there is to say for Titian when one has called him an observer. < i > Il y mettait du sien , and I use the term to designate roughly the artist whose apprehension, infinitely deep and strong when applied to the single figure or to easily balanced groups, spends itself vainly on great dramatic combinations -- or rather leaves them ungauged.
Italian Hours
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What I have found infinitely amusing is that when I've done radio interviews with both whack-job super right-wing Republicans and completely looney-tunes, totally left-wing Democrats, both have thought I was arguing their side.
Part Three of Interview with David Gewirtz, Author of "Where Have All The Emails Gone?"
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It's a good example of life being infinitely more powerful than drama.
Times, Sunday Times
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The French parquet is always more or less dusty, although infinitely superior in point of cleanliness and healthiness to our absorbent floor.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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Diego couldn't say he enjoyed sleep per se, but there were times when he found it infinitely better than being awake.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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It all sounds infinitely more exhausting than the macarena.
Times, Sunday Times
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“I one morning called upon him, however, and found him infinitely better than I had expected; and, in a kind of exulting style, he exclaimed, 'Here are some of the best of my prose writings; I have been hard at work since midnight, and I desire you to examine them.'
Oliver Goldsmith
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He thinks it would have been more "moral" if Mme. de Clèves had actually succumbed as a punishment for her self-reliance (certainly one of the most remarkable topsyturvifications of morality ever crotcheted); is, of course, infinitely shocked at being asked and induced to "interest himself in a prostitute and a card-sharper" by _Manon Lescaut_; and, equally of course, extols Richardson, though it is fair to say that he speaks well of _Tom Jones_.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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I tend to think more according the (b), though if it turns out that the computing resources required to circumvent this infeasibility are greater then what is available in the universe (an infinitely large computer) then this problem segues into (a) as well.
Quantum Hyperion
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he is infinitely wealthy
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The corkscrew stairway, broken and footworn though it is, seems infinitely less perilous.
Cheerful—By Request
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Today, the US trades confirmed the rumours that George Lucas is to bring his entire six-film Star Wars saga back to the big screen in stereoscopic vision, starting with 1999's The Phantom Menace (because blooming Jar Jar Binks 'fizzog will naturally be infinitely less irritating in three dimensions than it was in two) in 2012.
Blurred vision on the 3D bandwagon
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Somehow, someway, her caterpillar wormhood had carried, through the mummified chrysalid and the reincarnation of her present form, knowledge of an earlier, infinitely coarser diet.
Edge of the Jungle
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It was fantastic and, I must confess, infinitely preferable to staying on my feet for two hours.
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Bologna in Italy, anno 1504, there was such a fearful earthquake about eleven o'clock in the night (as [2155] Beroaldus in his book de terrae motu, hath commended to posterity) that all the city trembled, the people thought the world was at an end, actum de mortalibus, such a fearful noise, it made such a detestable smell, the inhabitants were infinitely affrighted, and some ran mad.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Language needs its protectors because it is not infinitely malleable.
Times, Sunday Times
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What the producer was going to talk about on the witness stand was infinitely more incriminating.
YELLOW BIRD
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Unlike Alcibiades, who had brought destruction everywhere, he, Hadrian, had governed a world infinitely larger ... and had kept pace therein; I had rigged it like a fair ship made ready for a voyage which might last for centuries; I had striven my utmost to encourage in man the sense of the divine but without at the same time sacrificing to it what is essentially human.
Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
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It may be of piquant interest that The Fourth Wall uses the conceit of a parallel between the heroine and Shaw's Saint Joan, a device currently put to infinitely better use in Lanford Wilson's Book of Days.
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The myths seem infinitely preferable.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Most important, the gameplay remains improved but still fun and infinitely engaging.
The Sun
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My initial snap judgment was that it was unoriginal and rather boring, but as I got to know it and the performers better, I found it infinitely touching.
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Surely modern life can pave the road to infinitely more happiness?
Times, Sunday Times
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This school is infinitely better than the last one I went to.
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Human cultures can change rapidly because cultural innovation is infinitely faster than biological evolution.
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The main problem for the latter is the general covariance of the field equations of General Relativity: any spacetime model and its image under a diffeomorphism (a infinitely differentiable, one-one and onto mapping of the model to itself) are in all observable respects equivalent to one another; all physical properties are expressed in terms of generally covariant relationships between geometrical objects.
Structural Realism
