Blanning's central point is simple: less than three centuries ago, musicians and composers occupied an insignificant place in the Western world; today, things are very different.
It's an attempt to survey humanity's efforts to unravel the big questions, ie, those pertaining to the size and shape of an infinite universe, and our humblingly insignificant place in it.
By the 10th century ce it had become an insignificant place, as may be seen from a description of it written by the Arab geographer al-Maqdisī (c. 985).
Willett is only the second Englishman to win the Masters, the first European to take that prize since 1999 and he is suddenly catapulted into a level of scrutiny completely alien even when he was in the hitherto hardly insignificant placing of 12th in the world.
— September 2 , 1985________ From a critical essay on evolution The non-scientist's relation to modern science is basically craven: we look to its discoveries and technology to save us from disease, to give us a faster ride and a softer life, and at the same time we shrink from what it has to tell us of our perilous and insignificant place in the cosmos.
— September 2 , 1985From a critical essay on evolution The non-scientist's relation to modern science is basically craven: we look to its discoveries and technology to save us from disease, to give us a faster ride and a softer life, and at the same time we shrink from what it has to tell us of our perilous and insignificant place in the cosmos.
On these important terms in Dignāga, their relatively insignificant place in Dharmakīrti, and their tortuous revival in Tibetan epistemological (tshad ma) literature from the 12th century on, see Tillemans (1999, p. 234, n. 15).
For high school and junior high students, science class can be a place where one can learn about humans' insignificant place in the world's ecosystem, or how to jump rope using cat intestines.
When fighting, a hit to the torso should be a "kill," whereas a hit to the ankle or any other insignificant place should not count as a "kill".
They are also, and this is by no means an insignificant fact, places a traveler might want to go.
