An advantage shared by learning-based theories and holistic theories of desire is that they are, in a natural way, able to hold that the strength of a desire can be a constant even while the effect of the desire on action, feelings, or thoughts seems disproportionate to the desire's strength.
Following this, Geoffrey Yarlott states, "though disproportionate in qualities of thought and feeling (and one of the less successful therefore of the major 'annus mirabilis' poems), [Fears in Solitude] exemplifies the problems Coleridge had to wrestle with in assimilating didacticism to the requirements of poetic organization".
His other bugbear, besides "TV getting a disproportionate amount of the money", is Thought for the Day: it is "frankly bizarre" for the programme "to set aside three minutes every day for what is in essence a sermon".
But the words "Zuckerberg" and "Facebook" seem to prompt disproportionate fury; some people immediately imagined their thoughts directly transposed on to a Facebook wall, while others maintained their long-held position that "Facebook is awful because I say so".
Generally progressive and open-minded, Ismailis have made contributions to Islamic thought and culture that are disproportionate to their numbers.
According to the support charity Metro, regardless of whether they have HIV or not a disproportionate number of young LGBT men and women self-harm, and have suicidal thoughts.
My thoughts here are on how and why the American media spends disproportionate energy and resources on crimes involving white victims over those involving victims who are something other than white.
While they continue to loathe him for his fatal flaw of occasionally embracing a moderate thought, they are dependent upon his electoral victory to extend their vastly disproportionate political power.
Like so many other parents, particularly Protestants - who are witnessing a disproportionate brain drain of student children because they fear unionism has no future - he hates the thought of them going to Britain to study and never returning.
"It was completely disproportionate".
