Sentences with phrase «insignificance by»

Makes my gouty toe story pale into insignificance by comparison!

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) were a huge trend of 2015 (read our post on the subject), but according to the annual report from PriceWaterhouseCooper's (PwC) Health Research Institute, this will pale to insignificance by comparison with 2016.

The risk of a trace addition to a trace gas in the atmosphere pales to insignificance by comparison to the damage done to individuals by governments.

But the scale and nature of it pales into insignificance by comparison with what women receive.

Possessing a darkly unconscious sense of insignificance in the total scheme of things, we seek to compensate for this insignificance by pretensions of pride.

Unless it extends to «tickled with feathers», the «degree» of punishment seems dwarfed to insignificance by the length of the sentence.

Not exact matches

His campaign spokesman downplayed concerns that some of the Tories» own elected MLAs might not join Kenney's United Conservatives by suggesting their relative insignificance in a party with tens of thousands of members.

Seems to me that she does not consider herself to be pointless, just that she was humbled by her insignificance to the cosmic scheme.

If this maturing does not occur, four types of nonproductive life - orientations (and character structures) develop in the attempt by persons to defend themselves from feelings of existential insignificance and aloneness.

It produced in Hindus the feeling that «in an age of competitive politics» in which power - sharing is «determined by numbers», conversion would reduce them to insignificance.

We reduce it to insignificance and remove its ontological and theological sting, by construing it as though it said that man's body was taken from the earth and in doing so we think of «body» as meaning just what fits into the framework of our standard and superficial ideas, and as something that has nothing to do with the «soul».

We are meant to live in Ordinary Time, and to help redeem the time being from insignificance, by making it not extra-ordinary, but holy in the most ordinary ways of all.

He fortifies himself by a false and hasty conception of the insignificance of his guilt.

These figures pale into insignificance, however, when compared to the response gained by major religious broadcasters.

Pantheism is the theology that gives us solace by according divinity to our experiences of personal insignificance.

Mr Murphy said his experience «paled into insignificance» compared to those men who have come forward to say they were sexually abused by Finnegan.

As a teenager, I saw Pale Blue Dot, a photo of Earth taken by Voyager I that led astronomer Carl Sagan to reflect on the insignificance of man in the universe.

It is by no means perfect; regardless of the insignificance of the characters, wooden acting is still wooden acting, and some of the early nods to the Fukushima disaster and 2011's tsunami seem a touch tacked on, but once the story gets going and the monsters come out, the film settles into a refreshing and thoroughly entertaining romp.

Compared with the other cars here, it's more exciting, interesting and desirable, and by such an extent that its imperfections eventually pale into comparative insignificance.

It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of the hopeless obscure insignificance of our globe lost in the splendid revelation of a glittering, soulless universe.

But this pales into insignificance when we discover TFG's only got 10 voting shares (the listed shares are non — voting), controlled by....

Sadly, what was once a fantastic loyalty program run by people who appeared to know what they were doing now appears to be a program on a rapid trajectory to insignificance and run by the clueless.

Li writes: «Bechtle's nonfiction of the most overlooked moments in life can send viewers to the verge of panic about becoming enthralled by the beauty of sheer banal insignificance.

I have been raised by the communication flow, saturated with shapes and colors, fantasy and violence, fashions and statistics, insignificances and essences.

If, for example, we were to create a piece-wise continuous trend keeping your own trend, we'd find the 0.17 C decadal warming trend from your starting point preceded by an estimated warming of equal magnitude in the combined 125 prior years (beginning at a time where only 1/4 of the present day coverage existed, thus placing the entire 125 year warming more or less within the margin of statistical insignificance).

This is not new, but demonstrated well by the attempt and its insignificance.

Some illustrate the insignificance of the density issue by putting everyone in a known region.

It is hard to know which is greater: contrarians» overstatement of the flaws in the historical temperature reconstruction from 1998 by Michael E. Mann and his colleagues or the ultimate insignificance of their argument to the case for climate change.