How To Use Littleness In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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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But between the grandeur of the word 'theatre' and the littleness of the 'object', there is a precipice.
The Times Literary Supplement
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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
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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.
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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.
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Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
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When we describe their pompous vanity and take exquisite pleasure in putting calipers on the immense littleness of their avarice, we are making records of our own littleness and avariciousness.
Philip "Momism" Wylie on Congress
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I realized as never before in my life, the utter littleness of man, and the almightiness of God.
Doctor Jones' Picnic
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At the same time, despite its littleness, it really feels like a real car.
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On a small island of the southern Atlantic, is shut up a remarkable prisoner, wearing himself out there in a feeble mixture of peevishness and jealousy, solaced by no great thoughts and no heroic spirit; a kind of dotard before the time, killing and consuming himself by the intense littleness into which he has shrunk.
Sermons for the New Life.
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He was beaten down to movelessness by an overwhelming sense of his own weakness and littleness.
The Makers of Fire
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And when humanitarians allow themselves to be used, he feels, the whole sorry business of humanitarian intervention - already morally unsatisfying in its littleness and lateness - becomes more degenerate still.
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The mean state Greatness of Soul, the excess which may be called braggadocio, and the defect Littleness of Soul.
Ethics
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The littleness of one's fellows in the mob of life is a very strange experience.
