Sentence examples for immense small from inspiring English sources

Such immense "small mercies" are to be found everywhere that humanitarians go, even at the scenes of their most disastrous interventions.

Gad's Hill Place was intended as a holiday retreat, but after his marriage ended, he moved there permanently, and indulged in a favourite pastime, the devising of "an immense number of small inventions".

In order to deal with this immense task, a small army of specialists has been deployed to the crash site and the surrounding areas to use the full battery of forensic, scientific and anthropological tools available to identify each of the dead.

In his ten years as crown prince, Tamim may have sensed a need to smooth such ruffled feathers.Despite Qatar's immense wealth and small population, there are special challenges to managing a society so closely knit that the extended al-Thani clan alone some say makes up a fifth or so of its 250,000 citizens.

As Lu valiantly tries ploy after ploy to penetrate Feng's memory loss — Gong's pinched features framing eyes that reflect both the confusion of the present and a past stolen — Zhang steers "Coming Home" toward a poignant study of immense distance in small spaces.

However, the cohort of patients with such an immense benefit remains small and applies to only 7%% in our study population.

The bluefin is nearing collapse, and its abundant misfortune is passed on to countless other creatures — the unwanted fish, turtles and seabirds killed as bycatch, the immense tonnage of smaller fish vacuumed up to fatten captured bluefin in Mediterranean "farms".

Burnett had developed a loud sloppy slapstick style of comedy and projected an immense likability on the small screen.

The Queen's visit to Ireland in 2011 was an immense success, in no small part because of the details.

The restaurant's collection of 75,000 bottles includes hefty holdings of Mr. Smith's beloved Châteauneuf-du-Pape (here's a nice 1998 Charvin now, for $220), but Mr. Sanz Ramiro and his staff — the sommeliers Orr Reches and Alexandria Cubbage — have much to recommend on the regular wine list as well, and can tailor their offerings to budgets both small and immense.

Here this opposition is manifest in a large sheet of glass suspended between I-beams and flanked by two columns of the gallery; it serves as an immense frame for a small Gordian knot of a painting, "Design for the Qor Corporation," by the polymath artist and kabbalist Harry Smith.