There are people actually bloogging of the "unimportance" in Haiti & the nonstop coverage on the news stations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haitians wait for daylight for full look at quake devastation] Reference

With a few words, my unimportance is plain to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

" It has dropped to almost unimportance, " he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Euro-Zone Growth Eases] Reference

The remainder of the day had faded into unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Devil]

Indeed, the unimportance of their contacts is striking.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Charm Brigade] Reference

The use of “typical” is really used to define unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama on Reverend Wright - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

That was all, the brevity of it adding to its seeming unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satanic Verses]

Henceforth let no one twit the smoker with idleness and unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

In so doing, he is indicating the relative unimportance of the proof itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descartes' Ontological Argument] Reference

Being a blip of microscopic unimportance in a cosmic sea of weighty history.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design Review: IC is not nice (Chapter 10) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The nattiness of his business suit gave him an air of conventional unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

His pie chart dramatically shows the relative unimportance of the earmarks issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jules Siegel: The Adler Planetarium and McCain's Fake War on Earmarks] Reference

It makes the individual helpless, and crushes him with a sense of his unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference

It would impress upon the humans their relative unimportance in the scheme of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosetta]

Gaston as soon as he returned, and, by so doing, prove the unimportance of the thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference

Sara felt as though she had been suddenly relegated to a position of utter unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

But it is not a matter of unimportance whether a man shall become attached to any country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference

If man does not live for ever, his character and actions seem of comparative unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to His Friends] Reference

Somers had never known that he weighed so little, that he was such a scrap of unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kangaroo] Reference

At times they resort to the mixed metaphor to express their innocuous unimportance, declaring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

The unimportance and uselessness of that population had saved them from the Specks 'attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

She herself was of the utmost unimportance except for the fact that he wanted her for his wife!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

The grating and grinding noise makes one feel the unimportance of man in circumstances like ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference

What the harddrive of my iMac lacks is by no means a measure of unimportance … if that makes any sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Family « Wanderings] Reference

A sense of abundance yet a sense of detachment and unimportance, like being a fly hovering around leftovers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Open thread 135] Reference

No more deadly insult could be offered him than forgiveness of his sins on the ground of their unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

Sometimes, again, reading is faster than the moderate rate because of the unimportance of the events or facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference

That is has not, as opposed to much more personal comments and attacks, speaks volumes as to it's unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Hillary, Rudy Expand National Leads Slightly] Reference

But to her belonged a calm which came from a clear perception of the comparative unimportance of petty incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference

But a feeling of disquiet, too, a haunting realization of one man's ridiculous unimportance in the scheme of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dear Carl] Reference

The subject dropped then, went back to war and how men feel on the edge of death, of the unimportance of death anyway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference

The situation of professional officers is indeed paradoxical: it combines collective power and individual unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Plot Your Takeover] Reference

In fact, should I prove to be correct, her disappearance should assume a position of relative unimportance to all but you.    From Wordnik.com.  [An East Wind Coming]

Changed my diary because my old diary contains somewhat selfish things of unimportance ... but I won't go into great detail about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [bloodwork36 Diary Entry] Reference

You must forget it, think of its relative unimportance on a galactic scale, and consider instead the existing, suffering hordes of mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet of the Damned] Reference

Evidently the combinations which lower prices by restricting competition among purchasers are not to be overlooked because of unimportance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monopolies and the People] Reference