You should then realize the insignificance of your problem in the light of our present predicament. From LearnThat.org.
Minimizing the problem to the point of insignificance is not a victory. From Wordnik.com. [Leah Anthony Libresco: Yale Daily News Wrong to Condemn Outrage in Response to Sexism] Reference
"A life of insignificance, is a life that does not signify anything," Mr. Marshall added. From Wordnik.com. [Daisy in the Field] Reference
I have made thee small -- Thy reduction to insignificance is as sure as if it were already accomplished; therefore the past tense is used. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
With our numbers and technology the way they are now, our former shell of global insignificance is broken, and the old ways will not promote our survival or growth anymore. From Wordnik.com. [View from the Northern Border] Reference
In each a character clinging absurdly to a sense of his own emotional insignificance is finally moved, despite himself, to embrace life's complex if at times mortifying drama. From Wordnik.com. [You Might as Well Live] Reference
I'faith, then, my insignificance is the best friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Duenna] Reference
In the time of the Terror his insignificance was his refuge. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)] Reference
They were so simple and transitory, but their insignificance was their great appeal. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Winters] Reference
The awareness of one’s own insignificance is guaranteed to break any being’s spirit at once. From Wordnik.com. [VinceKeenan.com] Reference
My insignificance was my protection; and I arrived safely at Fisher's Alley with all my curiosities and prohibited effects. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Jack] Reference
All I can see in these reports is general references to "insignificance". From Wordnik.com. [On the state of the Traditional Roman Rite in Latin America -- a liberal's report] Reference
That "insignificance" line was too far over the top; it reeks of the bitterness of having been forced to swallow this Maoist self-criticism exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Stark Apologizes After Censure Bid Fails] Reference
Nordhaus and Shellenberger note the telling "insignificance," as environmental measures, of planting gardens or using fluorescent bulbs. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Sorrows shrink into insignificance as the horizon broadens. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There is the insignificance of the significance of that falsity. From Wordnik.com. [Things I no longer know (DIARY ALLSTARZ)] Reference
Despite its practical insignificance, last week had symbolic importance. From Wordnik.com. [A Vote Against Preservation] Reference
He began to think of himself again and other things faded into insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
But the horizon grew rosy-red and the dropping moon paled into insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
As a result, that 3. 3-inch difference “fades to insignificance,” Swart said. From Wordnik.com. [Bike helmets - not wigs - save lives] Reference
India and China) grow so fast - or fade into the kind of insignificance it had before. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Such details, too, sank into insignificance before the more absorbing interest of personality. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
By that time the earth had rolled out of sight and the moon itself had paled into insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
How could such insignificance ever bother old England, for instance, big and powerful as she was?. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
Seeing the skyline at night, it gives you a sense of your relative insignificance within the world. From Wordnik.com. [Road Warrior: Magnus Renfrew] Reference
With that understanding fixed, the ordinary atrocities we "good guys" commit pale into insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Levine: Casting Stones at Oliver Stone] Reference
There's a paradox: you see these places and you feel your insignificance, and yet that makes you feel bigger. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Burns Wants You To Park It] Reference
What lies ahead will surely make what lies behind fade into insignificance as the new future unfolds its magic. From Wordnik.com. [Frank A. Weil: What Columbus Must Have Worried About] Reference
"Think how we shall fade into insignificance to-night when you hold forth with the great Southard," retorted Nora. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
I ceded nearly complete authority to my wife, then blamed both her and my son for my feelings of loss and insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [Slouching Toward Fatherhood] Reference
Not he, for in the love and constancy of Alice Westmore all such things seemed unspeakable insignificance to the glory of that. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
I felt myself carried with her into the regions where our sorrows shrink into insignificance as the horizon broadens around them. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
All the other rocks of the earth sink into insignificance, and "hide their diminished heads," when compared to this mighty stone!. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
She had grown out of her former girlish feeling of insignificance in the presence of powdered footmen and fashionable ladies 'maids. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
The self-satisfied man sees every one's faults in giant proportions; and every one's virtues, but his own, dwarfed into insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
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