Sentences with phrase «insignificance with»

Jonathan Parker's work explores the human scale of insignificance with lyrical references to the mythology of empire, the waterman's craft and the act of crossing the Thames.

There will be others, and across all parties and none who appreciate the gravity of this particular Inquiry and who appreciate that political point scoring palls into insignificance with the serious charge that a British Government colluded with torturers.

But numbers of even that magnitude shrink to insignificance with the advent of satellite - link television.

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.

Also (and this fits with # 1 above), when we pray this prayer, we will often be faced with a choice between two ministry positions, one that leads to honor, glory, and fame, and one that leads to obscurity and insignificance.

Confronted with this awesome display of the majesty and wisdom of God, and suddenly aware of his own insignificance and ignorance, Job backs down:

Divine love is as glorious as a summer day high in the Alps; it is merciful and makes our sins, though they be as scarlet, vanish into insignificance, replacing them with his own action in us; it is, finally, self - sacrificial unto death, for it seeks not its own.

While mainline missions dwindled to insignificance, evangelical missions, which were usually aligned with or at least sympathetic to premillennialist notions, flourished with unabated vigor.

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

But even if the counsellors strayed from support to advocating, this effort pales into insignificance compared with the proselytizing of organized religion.

They also say, «Individual occasions in God eventually lose their individuality as their experience of the future fades into insignificance and they imperceptibly merge with the next lower level... «7

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».

''» that one comes across now and then in old novels, especially translations from French, where the intent is to belittle the victim, impressing him with his utter insignificance.

But then, as my Auntie Joanna pointed out, when he gets to Heaven and Edmund Campion asks him what it was like being an English Catholic, being stitched up on TV debates may pale into insignificance compared with being hanged, drawn and quartered in front of a large crowd.

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.

Numerical insignificance inevitably invests Protestant church life with a minority mentality [May 12, 1954].

In the midst of mass society people yearn to identify with something larger than themselves, something that will redeem their lives from insignificance.

Substantially everyone arrives in eternity bringing with him and delivering the most accurate account of every least insignificance which he has committed or has left undone.

Our «fantasy predicament» pales into insignificance compared to the mess Liverpool are in, with an injured Torres, and Carragher, Kuyt and Gerrard burnt out after the World Cup.

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

However, in Caroline Spellman's case the alleged infringement pales into insignificance when compared with others, including other Conservatives!

City sewers «The Thames bridges sink into comparative insignificance when compared with the great metropolitan drainage works executed during the last few years.

Marginalization and discrimination were found to predict feelings of insignificance, which became stronger with the experience of more discrimination and, in turn, predicted an attraction to fundamentalist groups and its extreme behavior, the research found.

He made the defeat of anarchism an overriding mission: «When compared with the suppression of anarchy, every other question sinks into insignificance.

Stepping into any of her mirrored rooms, I can instantly feel Kusama's intention to make me ponder on my own insignificance in vast universe she created with lights and illusion.

If you give this movie time to work on you, the elements that seem overly artificial or impossibly distant from our own time fade into insignificance, and you're left with a complicated and wonderful romantic drama that's full of surprises.

In, «Dreams of Dead Energy,» a man struggles with his work, the effect of leisure, and his insignificance in the face of an uncaring... Read More

But given that she's talking to a brilliant surgeon with a photographic memory and magical powers, isn't this insistence on his insignificance a little... strange?

With Deyn's narration, it occasionally dips into profound ideas of her insignificance in the grand scheme of time.

Catching Fire is the peak of this franchise with the rest sort of just sputtering into insignificance.

While aspects of my role as a curriculum dean are important they pale into insignificance when compared with my teaching.

«Our teachers feel strongly that this type of evaluative tool is unfair based on the abundance of problems with the exam, the content, and the statistical insignificance of the students» scores,» she says.

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.

To our eyes, it's also the best looking of the three, so the extra # 1000 it costs compared with the four - door version pales into insignificance.

The more we aware we become of God in us, the more overwhelmed we are with a sense of total fulfilment and completeness; needs disappear into insignificance.

Neutering causes the prostate to shrink into insignificance thus preventing both prostatitis as well as the uncomfortable benign hyperplasia (enlargement) that occurs with aging.

As annoyed as I am with American for hitting us so hard with these changes it pales into insignificance compared to how annoyed I am with the bloggers who are trying to portray these changes as «not so bad».

This new film work mixes media and involves collaboration using humour and bathos to explore issues and subjects including, our insignificance in the universe (The Starry Messenger, 2013) a hoarding dystopian future (ECHT, 2014) and buildings with odd angles (Hotel 70º, 2015).

Moving from the city to the rural hinterland and the coast, Hayes reflects on contemporary and historical engagements with the land and its representations, observing our insignificance within its expanse as keenly as our urge to manipulate, inhabit and delight in it.

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

During the Song dynasty, Chinese landscape painting developed a strong connection with Taoist philosophy, seeking to emphasize the insignificance of a single human in the vast eternity of the universe.

The argument of insignificance cuts two ways — it is wise to recognize our smallness, but we can excuse our behavior with the same argument.

So, in a period of a few decades we have moved from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and attempts are being made to replace it with quasi-religious political madness which — if not stopped — will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.

So, in a period of a few decades we have moved from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and we have replaced it with quasi-religious political madness which — if not stopped — will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.

So, you and your ilk want to replace want to move from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and you want to replace that with quasi-religious political madness which — if not stopped — will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.

So to argue for the insignificance of the thermosphere to radiative balance it is not sufficient to point to its small mass and number of molecules — one must accompany this with physics showing for instance the mean free path of photons between interactions with air molecules to be sufficiently long that the thermosphere will not significantly affect outgoing flux.

R Stevenson says: May 22, 2011 at 6:23 am As a so called greenhouse gas, CO2 pales into insignificance when compared with water vapour.

Phil says: R Stevenson says: May 22, 2011 at 6:23 am «As a so called greenhouse gas, CO2 pales into insignificance when compared with water vapour.

As a so called greenhouse gas, CO2 pales into insignificance when compared with water vapour.

Kind of makes difficulty keeping up with the New Brunswick Court of Appeal pale into insignificance, no?