littleness

How To Use littleness In A Sentence

• The eeriness of the world, the mischief and the manyness, the littleness of the forces, the magical surprises, the unaccountability of every agent, these surely are the characters most impressive at that stage of culture, these communicate the thrills of curiosity and the earliest intellectual stirrings. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
• Then cast away _all_ the loathsome littleness which has rusted and fouled around you, and look at Nature as she literally _is_, in her naked beauty, conceiving and forming, quickening and warming into infinitely varied and lovely life, and then _forming_ once again with the strong and harsh influences of death, pain and decay. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• And those back parts are upborne by thighs smooth and round and by a calf like a column of pearl, and all this reposeth upon two feet, narrow, slender and pointed like spear-blades,247 the handiwork of the Protector and Requiter, I wonder how, of their littleness, they can sustain what is above them. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• The Fronde left behind it a sense of littleness, of poverty-stricken humanity, and this particular frondeur had seen the mask drop from the features of his fellow-men. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
• It is that sense of littleness that astrology configures so successfully, just as Delphi with its enigmas configures obscurity, of things in the future, in the past and indeed the present.
• 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
• But between the grandeur of the word 'theatre' and the littleness of the 'object', there is a precipice. The Times Literary Supplement
• To study the original Chinese text is to pass as it were into the secret recesses of the Japanese brain, and to find in that darkened chamber a whole world of things which advertise ambitions mixed with limitations, hesitations overwhelmed by audacities, greatnesses succumbing to littlenesses, and vanities having the appearance of velleities. The Fight for the Republic in China
• Yes, their littleness, the little publicity that they receive, are a kind of defiance to the epoch in which all that counts is measured in big figures.
• Although I can imagine it is hard to live life blighted by such small stature, it is his littleness that has actually got him where he is today.