puniness

How To Use puniness In A Sentence

• The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was enough to sink your heart. Why Bother? « Gerry Canavan
• It's impossible not to question the puniness of one's own existence. Times, Sunday Times
• I smiled to myself in response to their physical puniness.
• The book seems to be about the fear of death, the culture of death, the arrogance and puniness of men and women in the face of death, and even the defeat of death.
• Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world. The Wall of the World
• Tomasz felt as he did in the aftermath of a drunken night or when firing a recalcitrant worker, the surge of self-righteous energy replaced by a sense of his own puniness. ALONE With You
• There had been a call to rouse and put forth work, and I wrought with all the puniness of my might (woe is me!), and earned my post at the window that looks out upon the large things. The Kempton-Wace Letters
• Passing between the corporeal portals of their womanly flesh, my pale-toned puniness frightened me. The Best American Poetry 2008
• It must have been a truly awesome sight to watch a herd of brontosaurs crossing a Mesozoic floodplain; evoking the same sense of awe, and puniness in one's own being in comparison, as one would feel when observing whales close up.
• Everyone has accountability to protect any more puniness one. said mother.