Sentences with word «bigness»

A believer in bigness, Taylor took the course he was later to pursue with Ontario's seven rickety racetracks: he began borrowing to buy up competitors.

But as with the progression toward self - aggregation discussed above, the ultimate aim even with these mega-medi-deals isn't to get bigger for bigness sake — or at least it shouldn't be.

Those in that wing emphasize numbers, the SCBF charges, above faithfulness, are obsessed with bigness, use celebrities to draw a crowd, employ worldly music, destroy small fundamentalist programs for the sake of their «Super-church» and electronic empires, share platforms with nonfundamentalists, say «Whatever will get a crowd I will do it,» and then call the «biblical fundamentalist» a «nit - picker.»

Humanity's greatest minds have been studying the complexity of the universe for centuries only to discover a seemingly infinite bigness and smallness.

It just feels right for these times, as we reevaluate our priorities on bigness and start thinking anew.

But just a few months later, the very bigness of the move suddenly looked like a virtue.

To ensure appropriate Bigness, advocates add - in the curious caveat of being «at risk of.»

I probably can not convince Kaufmann on this, but perhaps the Porchers can begin to see their need to start thinking about «empire» in an objective way, so as to understand that a general stand against government bigness and foreign intervention - proclivity has got to distinguish the various sorts and can not let itself get sounding like Chomskyite b.s..

He detested bigness and people's becoming reliant on «the one big shop,» whether it be one big corporation or the government.

Bigness no longer defines the moral high ground.

Under the banner of economism our national policies have consistently favored bigness in farms.

Nor could willing one thing mean willing it in the vain sense of mere bigness which only to a man in a state of giddiness appears to be one.

But nobody makes bigness the looming necessity that Texan evangelicals make it.

The house is a clash of ambitions, a combination of Texas nouveau bigness and quasi-European glitz, with Louis XIV furniture and conspicuous antique volumes of Austen, Richardson, Dickens and Smollet.

Instinct might suggest, then, that the games between the Big Six should play a significant part in determining the destination of the title, since all the other teams, faced with such Bigness, will surely tug their forelock and surrender their points.

Because predators need large areas to survive, «they justify bigness.»

But maybe bigness was unnecessary.

Loose styles that fall from the chest down will only bulk out our middle section, leaving it looking on par in terms of bigness when compared to your thighs.

Dark of the Moon is hardly a fleet production, but here Bay makes his best, most flexible use yet of all the flamboyant bigness at his command: Computer - drawn characters and human actors seem to occupy the same narrative for once.

Jerry Stiller (as Matthau's partner), and Dick O'Neill (as a dispatcher) deserve special mention; and Joseph Sargent effectively contrasts the dynamic bigness of urban avenues and the cramped, dark arena of the subway car and tunnels in a way that scarcely came automatically.

This is irritating sand in the eye for those hoping that somewhere in this overcooked onslaught of unreal bigness and loudness there might be a good old fashioned adventure yarn.

It's easy to feel cowed into submission by the sheer bigness of Paul Thomas Anderson's three most recent features: dense, crowded, immaculately shot and composed, incident - heavy movies in which setpieces often seem to be competing with one another for attention and space.

Nathan Silver tackles melodrama in Thirst Street, fusing its emotional bigness with his unique form of quotidian portraiture without one cancelling the other out.

Their honest bigness, their extraordinary power, when moving in tandem with your own punier step, can buck up your spirits on the trail.

As with the new Countryman, Mini unrepentantly brags about its new bigness.

Wiley Cash dares give voice to people lost in the margins of history, and he brings to life their inspiring fight for justice with graceful prose, honesty and intensity, and best of all, a wonderful bigness of heart.»

If nothing else, companies should have seen that bigness causes its own set of problems — how do you create an ethical culture across a large organization?

Their work represents sheer power, marked by menacing bigness and boldness.

The Bortolami Gallery is not alone in seeking alternatives to the expensive push - the - product ethos that bigness brings.

Bigness dwarfs virtue.

At the very least, there's major, major bigness going on in the global warming realm.

In other words, BigLaw needs to find a way to shrink gracefully to a fraction of its current bigness.

The American spirit seeks bigness, and many people feel they're entitled once they've earned enough money.

They fear the Frick will be destroyed in a bid for bigness — like so many other interesting old things in New York City of late.

The cods here are small, round, and red, very like the berries of Dulcamara or wood Nightshade, both in bigness, color, and substance, wherein consists the difference: not withstanding, the seeds and cods are very sharp and biting, as are those of the first kind.

I think humility comes through both venues — recognizing our own smallness and acknowledging God's infinite bigness.

And whales are almost synonymous with bigness.

Bayless, who specializes in later - stage private - equity placement, says, «Origin Group allows larger companies to utilize the advantages of being small and flexible in order to attack problems created by their bigness.»

Bigness and power confer great privilege and leverage, but they also attract great scrutiny.

Yet at the moment of bigness, if you are throttling it back down, you are choking your spirit.

I take an eight - minute video of the convention floor in a futile attempt to convey its bigness.

«In its pursuit of bigness, Amazon has left a trail of destruction — competitors undercut, suppliers squeezed — some of it necessary, and some of it highly worrisome,» Franklin Foer wrote in The New Republic in 2014.

Until recently, bigness for its own sake was essential to Volkswagen's identity.

, the questions of BIGness and of antitrust bother more people.

Even beyond politics, religion and parenting, beyond the bigness of our world and its problems, to the smallest, most intimate of relationships,