Sentences with phrase «apparent insignificance»

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

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The smallness of the apparent range of variation is a function of the smallness of the area subdivision used rather than an indication of insignificance.

I guess I will be so bold as to ask where you think all of this is headed; i.e., is it possible that these efforts will produce the additional 150 early strong storms Peter Webster says are needed to reduce the apparent trend to insignificance?