Sentences with phrase «puny in»

Whatever occurred, though, the outcome was bad for the Scottish artist Cathy Wilkes whose installation looks miserably puny in a gallery the size of a tennis court.

The item is indeed impressively large, making its smaller counterpart seem puny in comparison.

This is a non-sporting breed of dog, puny in size but energetic by nature, this dog can be white, brindle or fawn in color.

If you're an iPhone user who's feeling their handset's a bit puny in comparison, this is the best time to make the switch from iOS to Google — though it's still nowhere near as intuitive to use.

«Daylight» is persuasive in its action moments but puny in terms of character and dialogue.

The $ 17.7 million in prize money for the LPGA's 37 events this year falls short of the $ 19 million the Seniors will play for in their 42 tournaments, and looks puny in comparison with the minimum of $ 45 million budgeted for the PGA Tour's 52 events.

Not exact matches

The disappearing message app's $ 16 billion valuation may seem downright puny compared with its other top unicorn peers, but startup founders everywhere admire founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy's chutzpah when they swatted away Facebook's low - ball $ 3 billion offer in 2013.

As you can see in the demonstration below, the laser isn't just some puny beam of light.

No matter how puny your current social - media strategy, your brand needs to invest in analytics tools that will let it listen to customers — and competitors.

Davis, however, believes that the made - in - the - USA movement has serious limitations — particularly a puny domestic supply chain crippled by an unskilled labor pool, at least when it comes to custom manufacturing.

While the stock market is up about 10 percent for the year — which is a nice gain for stocks in just eight months — the money people have made in stocks is puny compared with what's been made in bitcoin.

If you're in your 20s or 30s there's a strong chance that you are getting puny paychecks that never seem to stretch far enough, and you may look at everything your baby boomer parents have and wonder if you'll ever catch up.

With some IL gilt funds up 25 % in a year while inflation is running at a puny 1 - 2 %, the disconnect is clear — and potentially liable to reverse.

Adding insult to injury, the puny effective tax saving to those tax - filers from the capital gains partial inclusion (worth $ 7.50 in federal taxes at the 15 % marginal rate) was only half the effective savings pocketed by the top 1 % tax - filers (realized at a 29 % rate) on EACH $ 100 of their capital gains partial inclusion (which was then applied against a capital gains flow that was 600 times larger).

It's just that anything people can not understand in their puny, primitive brains, is not open to rational consideration UNLESS they are willing to concede that some things are unknowable..

another gnostic gospel... not even close to the true Gospel found in matthew, mark, luke, and john gospels that line up with Paul, and the other apostles teachings of Jesus, those four gospels have hundreds of manuscrips not like these puny 1 time fragments dated way after apostles

The Almighty, The Creator of all things in the Universe, doesn't need puny mankind to handle His business, or murder anyone.

What puny powers and bloodless hearts your creatures would bring to you were they to cut themselves off prematurely from the providential setting in which you have placed them!

A poet writing in the twentieth century A.D. may be a puny figure compared with the titanic stature of a Greek dramatist five centuries before Christ, and ethical insight can not be graded on the basis of the calendar.

To reject this idol may often involve falling back upon skepticism, but sometimes one seems fleetingly to be enabled to reject the idol in the name of a Being who really is Another, who requires one to stop putting words into His mouth, who has the predictable disconcerting quality of the God of the New Testament, who directs one's attention away from oneself, who is relaxed where the idol is grim and immensely awe - inspiring where the idol is puny.

During its plenary sessions the recent conference «Families 2000» came dangerously close to suggesting that in response to family disintegration, individualism and loneliness the church should become the new family surrogate, a warm and accepting replacement for the puny, broken and disappearing nuclear families whose remains are strewn across the social landscape.

It was confidently claimed that in the distant past, God had revealed the truth on various issues to men like Moses, the prophets, the apostles and above all through Jesus Christ His Son, and it was therefore impossible for puny man to pit his intelligence against God, and further it was blasphemous even to question truth that was divinely revealed.

Perhaps that's a statement in itself of humanity's innate awareness of the fact that there's got to be more than just this... this puny life.

The spiritual rulers are also in awe looking down on we puny humans and God's mercy towards us expressed in all clarity and purity.

In my opinion, their perspective of God is puny compared to what God is really like.

Drawing together Ukrainians of all ages and backgrounds — old women on puny state pensions and tech - savvy teenagers still in high school, university intellectuals and street-wise factory workers, Ukrainian - speakers and Russian - speakers — the Maidan soon became a self - organizing civil society.

What God waits for in Naaman is the fitful progress of a transformation under way in Naaman even before he sets foot on the soil of Samaria or in the puny Jordan — a slender opening, first apparent when the great warrior takes advice from women and (how could it have been otherwise?)

He viewed the ego as a puny being caught between powerful instinctual drives and id impulses, on the one hand, and the harsh demands of society, intemalized in the superego, on the other.

Ethics has in its possession no chance, and so matters do not come to an explanation, it does not jest with dignities, it lays a prodigious responsibility upon the shoulders of the puny hero, it denounces as presumption his wanting to play providence by his actions, but it also denounces him for wanting to do it by his suffering.

if God is creator of all things... do you think we can box him in and make him logically in our puny finite minds?

Puny humans, who did not create themselves, must bow in sub-serviance to their creator.

How much more, then, when the means of the penetration of man's otherwise impregnable little fortress - tomb, the tiny, sealed capsule of his puny life, is a Word - the Word» How totally impossible to describe the process initiated and executed from Without, by Another, himself quite unseen, or rather seen only in the limited form of a particular function, or to explain the breaking of the walls of the fortress - tomb, and the granting of a kind of release from the capsule!

Getting match fit from injury isn't a couple day thing... His age hasn't helped in his recovery time, it is a scientific fact that as we get older it takes our bodies longer to repair, science rules your puny opinion!

Ugly is so much in the DNA that referees allow too much especially against teams they call puny; pundits call arsenal weak but replays show more than a half of ugly attacks are fouls.

And here was Emtman, suddenly crammed into this puny urban acreage in Seattle, redshirted and playing on a scout team, and flirting with academic ineligibility.

So has Osun shrugged off its laggardness to, despite its puny resources, point the way in the schools feeding programme, which the Federal Government just adopted on a national scale.

Cameron's ambitious and yet puny re-negotiation, the wariness of EU members and the dismissiveness of Tory MPs would not matter if it were not for the in / out referendum being staged at the end of the sequence.

The GDP data is unambiguous that our recovery is almost entirely due to the oil sector - in Q2 2017, when we exited recession, oil sector growth was 3.5 % while the non-oil economy grew a puny 0.45 %; in Q3 the non-oil economy went back into contraction with negative -0.76 % growth, but the overall economy was lifted by oil sector growth of 25.89 %; and in Q4 the oil sector grew by 8.38 %, while non-oil expanded by 1.45 %.

Mr President, as a Citizen, I have observed with shame, the litany of «puny», and sometimes cookedstories thrown at us by your Ministers and Other Appointees in your Government!

In comparison, Nick Clegg's little local difficulty with Lord Rennard seems puny.

Even though the star GJ 1214 is a puny red dwarf, it would still look 17 times larger from GJ 1214 b than the sun does in our sky.

IDing crooks from the DNA in their fingerprints, the 8 percent of our genome that came from viruses, and the plant that laughs at our puny genetic endowment.

When he castrated a group of juvenile roosters, the fowl became puny and meek: They lost interest in the hens, they failed to sprout abundant plumage and were smaller than normal males.

The first optical storage techniques — which would later create the compact disc — were developed in 1965, but data transfer was still agonizingly slow: Mariner 4 radioed these pictures over 134 million miles with a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter at the rate of 81/3 bits per second.

A modern tomato — heirloom, organic, process, vine - ripened, or otherwise — bears little resemblance to its puny, sour, undomesticated relations that sprout in the Peruvian Andes.

Black holes on an altogether different scale are believed to squat in the centers of most galaxies, including our own and MCG -6-30-15; the latest estimate has ours weighing in at a relatively puny 2.6 million suns.

A new study shows that salmon genetically modified to grow 25 times larger than their wild relatives end up far punier when reared in a natural - looking environment.

The previous line of thought argued that Theia was either fairly hefty or quite puny but could not be anything in between, but Lock and his colleagues found that Theia can run the gamut and still form a synestia.

With this knowledge, a University of California, Irvine, team found that Segue 2, discovered in 2009, weighs at most 150,000 times more than our sun — the puniest galaxy known.

«Surprisingly, the host galaxy [of FRB 121102] is a puny, star - forming dwarf system,» says ASTRON's Cees Bassa, who led the optical observations together with Shriharsh Tendulkar of McGill University in Montreal, Canada.