littleness

How To Use littleness In A Sentence

• Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.
• The littleness of one's fellows in the mob of life is a very strange experience.
• The mean state Greatness of Soul, the excess which may be called braggadocio, and the defect Littleness of Soul. Ethics
• And when humanitarians allow themselves to be used, he feels, the whole sorry business of humanitarian intervention - already morally unsatisfying in its littleness and lateness - becomes more degenerate still.
• He was beaten down to movelessness by an overwhelming sense of his own weakness and littleness. The Makers of Fire
• On a small island of the southern Atlantic, is shut up a remarkable prisoner, wearing himself out there in a feeble mixture of peevishness and jealousy, solaced by no great thoughts and no heroic spirit; a kind of dotard before the time, killing and consuming himself by the intense littleness into which he has shrunk. Sermons for the New Life.
• At the same time, despite its littleness, it really feels like a real car.
• I realized as never before in my life, the utter littleness of man, and the almightiness of God. Doctor Jones' Picnic
• When we describe their pompous vanity and take exquisite pleasure in putting calipers on the immense littleness of their avarice, we are making records of our own littleness and avariciousness. Philip "Momism" Wylie on Congress
• The eeriness of the world, the mischief and the manyness, the littleness of the forces, the magical surprises, the unaccountability of every agent, these surely are the characters most impressive at that stage of culture, these communicate the thrills of curiosity and the earliest intellectual stirrings. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy