Sentence examples for extending little from inspiring English sources

But even among a high percentage of these salts-of-the-earth lives a terrible reluctance toward even modest passes at social justice, a suspicious regard of the mind as an instrument of worth, a view of the world extending little further than the ends of their own noses and only a vague notion that they are small quills writing a large history".

It's nice to know that they're extending little Zune tendrils all over, but shouldn't this push have happened a year ago?

Very few Roman clergy were present in Paulinus's time, only James the Deacon being known, so that the "conversion" can have been only superficial, extending little beyond the royal court.

But their support, at least in public, has extended little beyond words.

His other options extend little further than Carlton Cole and the 18-year-old Freddie Sears.

But it was hardly an ideal appointment for someone whose cultural interests were thought to extend little beyond Star Trek.

More than 1,000km (620 miles) east, in the small coastal town of Tobruk, sits a parliament elected in June whose writ extends little beyond its poorly attended sessions.

Even now, Florence's guitar and piano playing extend little further than bashing the odd chord, yet she wrote her first song aged 13. "My first songs were about imaginary break-ups.

For the campers lounging by their RVs and the pool on a recent Saturday, concerns extended little beyond whether they were getting the sun to hit all the right places.

When Salim Hamdan was born in 1970, the horizon of his life extended little beyond his poor Yemeni village and a life (if he was lucky) as a farmer like his father.

Although our sense of the city extended little farther than the Williamsburg Bridge, and Park Avenue seemed as far away as Paris, my father strived to make money and make it out of there.