The landslide he had in the electoral college obscured the narrowness of a victory based on just 43% of the popular vote.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The problem with achievement tests is the narrowness they impose on students.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The attraction of the book is precisely its narrowness of focus.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Frustrated by the narrowness of people's horizons.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The narrowness of the road.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He regretted what he termed the narrowness of the Public.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

She calls the narrowness of Woody Allen's focus "self-absorption.".    From Wordnik.com.  [This Recording] Reference

Southern jealousy in this regard ultimated inevitably in Southern narrowness.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference

In reading Alfieri, I am always struck with what I may call the narrowness of his tragedies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions] Reference

I don't like the idea of narrowness or clubby-ness and I don't like the idea of exclusivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

It makes us more tolerant toward a certain narrowness, which is often provincial and sometimes almost parochial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inquiries and Opinions] Reference

My press has no rank but from its narrowness, that is, from the paucity of its editions, and from being a volunteer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference

You urged inclusiveness, and said you were concerned about the increasing "narrowness" that you were seeing in America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aubrey Sarvis: A Letter to General Powell] Reference

How many of us have seen what, in a man, would be called "peerless mastery," get called, in a woman's case, "narrowness"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christine Stansell: Feminists for Clinton] Reference

There was something very delicious about his leaving Boston to her "narrowness," unreproved and uninstructed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06] Reference

His eyes too are a study in narrowness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Cole the tighthead Tiger who is too good to ditch] Reference

One trouble with Fremont was his narrowness of view.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

The famous Strand amazed him by its narrowness and its shortness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Jim] Reference

From this narrowness of view the novelist may do much to deliver us.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference

Wright has objections to this definition on the ground of its narrowness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference

This same narrowness imparts a sensation as if one could not breathe freely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

What does the light in its narrowness or its thickest have to do with safety?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criminals] Reference

All had regular ultrasound scans to check the narrowness of the arteries in their necks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study adds weight to case against cholesterol drug Zetia] Reference

It was narrow and little, but it was all that could come into the soul of his narrowness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

Thermopylae, thinking on account of the narrowness of the pass they could check their advance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

The legality of this approach is unclear, given the narrowness of an appeals court's prior ruling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cablevision's "remote" DVR: Will it be a better option?] Reference

But if she has the one saving virtue of being able to perceive her narrowness, the remedy is in her own hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girls and Women] Reference

They have borne with the narrowness of woman's culture and the aimlessness of her life, believing it all right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

The glory itself is infinite: it is only through human narrowness and imperfection that it appears narrow and imperfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

In the narrowness of her eyes, the set and shield of her face, wholly not letting go, or giving in, there is no surrender.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Catch a Glimpse of, Forget As Soon] Reference

Some faulted U.S. arrogance and lack of understanding; others blamed fundamentalist narrowness or lack of Muslim self-policing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

She was resigned to the appreciation of women only, and these had in their appreciation narrowness of mind, malignity, and envy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Because of its narrowness, I should generally be allowed more proportionate white space on either side of it than the wider letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference

"There are Indian-Americans who get fed up with the narrowness of the community," says Sunaina Maira, author of "Desis in the House.".    From Wordnik.com.  [At Home: American Masala] Reference

And we're still doing that, and that's the that decides the narrowness of the vision that the Corps brings to any particular project.    From Wordnik.com.  [Filmmaker Says Katrina No Natural Disaster] Reference

I think that this is the most useful quantitative measure of a high school, and one of itsstrengths is the narrowness of the criteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frequently Asked Questions About NEWSWEEK’s Best American High Schools] Reference

At the last minute, the president squeaks by, but the victory is diminished by all the horse trading and the narrowness of the margin.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Cliffhanger] Reference

Its efficiency depends upon (1) the narrowness of the saw cut or "kerf," and (2) upon the force required to drive it thru the material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference