How To Use Puniness In A Sentence
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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
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It's impossible not to question the puniness of one's own existence.
Times, Sunday Times
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I smiled to myself in response to their physical puniness.
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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.
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Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.
The Wall of the World
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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
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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
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Passing between the corporeal portals of their womanly flesh, my pale-toned puniness frightened me.
The Best American Poetry 2008
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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.
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Everyone has accountability to protect any more puniness one. said mother.
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The main motive of social security system is to protect those puniness group. Social security system is the important character of social modernization and civilization.
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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.
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They were overcooked to limp puniness, they sometimes came stewed in a tomato sauce this actually sounds good now that I'm telling it, but was repulsive at the time, and they squeaked against my teeth when I ate them.
Born again green beans
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As in his cubhood he had been made to feel his smallness and puniness on the day he first came in from the Wild to the village of Grey Beaver, so now, in his full-grown stature and pride of strength, he was made to feel small and puny.
The Southland
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In the film, Macy's character was totally enclosed in the irony and yet we could identify with his desperate puniness without hoping for him to get away with his crime.
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And as the recession bites into long-haul holiday budgets and the puniness of the pound deters Brits from making their usual treks to Tuscany or the Dordogne, it is hoping for a bumper summer this year.
Suffolk Chic
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Sterling may be a bit weak, but the lira is in a different category of puniness altogether.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides, the point of the original version's visual extravagance was not to show off; it was to contrast the grandeur of the characters' silly young dreams with the puniness of their old, educated bitterness.
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Paintings that depict the beauty and immensity of nature and man's puniness within it were a specialty of Romantic painters.
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It's dumb politics to ridicule the puniness of the town where Palin served as mayor.
David Quigg: Forgetting Sarah Palin