Sentence examples for insignificant man from inspiring English sources

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He was an insignificant man, and there was no point in anyone's following him from his office to the station.

He was turned into this insignificant man who met his destiny on the tough streets of New York.

The man said, "I told my wife 30 years ago, 'I'm tired of being an insignificant man living in a broken culture.' " And yet here he was three decades later, still looking for his first recruit.

And An Insignificant Man, a documentary film by Shukla and Khushboo Ranka exploring the hushed topic of politics in India, is being released by VICE in the U.S. this week, and against all odds.

Directed by two young, independent filmmakers, An Insignificant Man is a documentary that follows Arvind Kejriwal, an activist and newcomer to Indian politics, who decided to form a new political party to serve the common man and combat corruption.

Following Trujillo's death, the calm and serenity of Balaguer bring about real change in his character, and General Román comments that "this insignificant man whom everyone had always considered a mere clerk, a purely decorative figure in the regime, began to acquire surprising authority".

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By all accounts, his engineer father could be something of a martinet; his relationship with John Cleese (who calls him "Mickey") appears to be that of headmaster and errant pupil; and several of the characters he has played, notably Jim Nelson in Alan Bleasdale's TV drama GBH, have been seemingly insignificant men who respond heroically when faced with a crisis.

A smart woman who had been obliged to be someone's idea of a wife, she had been at that table with the dumb little dictator: "The most insignificant of men, the man who can obtain influence or consideration nowhere else, finds one place where he is chief and head.

An insignificant little man, I dismissed him with some comment accusing him of bias whereupon he protested that he always tried to present a balanced view.

It's like seeing both faces of the Wizard of Oz at the same time: a gigantic, bodiless head and that insignificant little man behind the curtain.

That this seemingly insignificant little man could have produced within his 31 years innumerable transcendent masterpieces, overflowing with uncanny beauty, terrifying anger and irresistible charm, is an inexplicable phenomenon of humanity.

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