Sentences with phrase «to fit on the head of a pin»

How about «how many angels fit on the head of a pin»?

That was written in a time when it was true, before Christians argued over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin, whether to use grape juiceor wine in the communion class, and whether women should wear doilies on their head when they pray, and a myriad of other stupid destructive timewasting ideologies designed to keep us running around with 1 foot nailed to the floor.

The cells are tiny — a few could fit on the head of a pin — so a single biodrone could carry several, enabling it to measure multiple atmospheric markers simultaneously.

One billion could fit on the head of a pin.

Each bundle of human brain cells is so tiny that it could fit on the head of a pin.

You can also ask your reader to picture how many times things would circle Earth when laid end to end, describe how many would fit on the head of a pin, talk about weight in terms of school buses, or impress everyone with the number needed to reach from the earth to the moon.

As many as 100,000 of the very smallest would fit on the head of a pin.

That's when I realized: What I know about the work of Jean - Hugues Anglade you could fit on the head of a pin; I've only seen him in one other performance, as Zorg in Betty Blue (a.k.a. 37 ° 2 le matin), a movie with obvious but ultimately superficial parallels to La Femme Nikita.