Basically: holy shit, we are really insignificant and tiny.
"It's a tiny, insignificant spinoff from a great book," she said.
The Metropolitan Opera or the Royal Opera House always seemed such a distant and implacable fortress and I was this tiny, insignificant spectator.
However, God entitles us to a vacation from time to time, and this we take as tiny, insignificant human beings, born into a resort called Earth.
But Maqiao had the great advantage of being tiny, insignificant and thus shielded from the full glare of Mao's attention.
But a new study, the first to try to quantify attractiveness after a face-lift, brow-lift or eyelid surgery, found only a tiny, insignificant increase in attractiveness.
Admittedly, my apology is belated, less about accidentally broken baubles, more about deliberate criminality, and I'm not enclosing money, I'm scheming for free goods, but let's not quibble over tiny insignificant details.
Now, some very well-respected urologists have come to question the role of P.S.A. screening because so many men run the risk of incontinence and impotence while being treated for what turn out to be tiny, insignificant cancers.
But what makes this collection stand out is how painstakingly the author has drawn them; Selvon has a way of investing the most tiny, insignificant detail with a universe of meaning.
(Supplementary to Cameron: What would you do if our partners in the EU were to offer back only a tiny, insignificant slice of those powers already ceded?) 5. (To Cameron) How can you fight terrorism, crime and illegal immigration effectively if you opt out of Europol, Eurojust and all the 90-odd other forms of European co-operation in this area?
