insignificance
Example Sentences
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Will they empower a few superstar professors while reducing to insignificances those other teachers whose courses attract only a smattering of followers?
From BBC • Aug. 28, 2013
It is hard by reason of our sense-bound blindness, by reason of our superficial way of looking at things, which only shows us the nearest, and veils with their insignificances the magnitude of the furthest.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander
A poet, if he would please in ordinary life, must put on the fictitious graces of those who are able to make their insignificances forgotten by charming manners and complying speeches.
From Modeste Mignon by Balzac, Honoré de
Is He closer than the intrusive insignificances of this fleeting present?
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Maclaren, Alexander
Inflated obscurities, bloated insignificances, who knows or cares whence they came or what they are?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various
