brittleness
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They seem like the search-lights of God, showing up my human littlenesses of soul.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
Even heroes have their littlenesses, and Comedy is truer to the details of littleness than Tragedy or Epic.
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by Froude, James Anthony
He displayed through life all the infirmities and littlenesses of a man, and he died like one who had brought about his own death by his own acts.
From Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester by Holyoak, Austin
But never has any one so much as he made the interests of humanity predominate in his life over the littlenesses of self-love.
From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest
It is an ideal nature, seven foot high, clad in impenetrable panoply, steeled against the weaknesses, as above the littlenesses of humanity.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - High School
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