Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations.
In order to account for that wish I must mention—what it were otherwise needless to refer to—that my life, on all collateral accounts insignificant, derives a possible importance from the incompleteness of labors which have extended through all its best years.
I felt small and insignificant.
Because they were obvious and striking, I have written of his relations to women; and yet they were but an insignificant part of his life.
It's an insignificant part.
It's an insignificant part.
He was bigger than I expected: I do not know why I had imagined him slender and of insignificant appearance; in point of fact he was broad and heavy, with large hands and feet, and he wore his evening clothes clumsily.
The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
She was as insignificant, and perhaps as portionless, as Isabella; and if the heir of the Tilney property had not grandeur and wealth enough in himself, at what point of interest were the demands of his younger brother to rest?
It made me feel dreadfully insignificant.
The Stirling clan—with the insignificant exception of Cousin Georgiana—had tacitly agreed to follow Uncle James' example and look upon Valancy as one dead.
Never had she felt so utterly colourless and skinny and insignificant.
Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
This seemingly insignificant amount adds up over time and starts the habit of saving.
" If you're trying to figure out how the artist and his gallery settled on the price of $120,000 for Comedian, they apparently tried to strike a balance between an amount that would have been considered insignificant, and one that people would think of as outlandish.
What can take place before this sun sets which will not seem insignificant in the river of centuries?
: A mighty elephant looked down at a tiny mouse and said,"You are undoubtedly the most insignificant thing I've ever seen.
It is all SO insignificant when you look at life as a whole.
