Sentence examples for insignificant words from inspiring English sources

The challenge: Can insignificant words really provide a "window to the soul"?

"In recent years," Dr. Pennebaker and Mr. Lay wrote in their report, "an increasing number of studies have suggested that the seemingly insignificant words that people use are particularly telling about their emotions, motives and life circumstances".

In fact, the story is full of small repetitions, often of quite insignificant words, and it's only when replacements are suggested that I realize that the words were meant to be there.

Little did I know those seemingly insignificant words would fill 1.2 million other screens across the planet over the next nine days.

One time I filled a blank screen like this one with a handful of seemingly insignificant words and it turned my world upside-down.

I thought how insignificant that word was now.

However, right frontal activation tended to indicate a different distinction, as it was still significant to noise and pseudoword contexts but insignificant for word contexts (cf. Shtyrov et al. 2005).

Monitoring a complex industry like banking requires experienced ex-bankers who understand the inner workings of the system, who can read between the lines of financial statements, who can recognize the signs of fraud even when they are well-hidden or seemingly insignificant; in other words, those who have the knowledge, intelligence and instinct to be good financial cops.

Sometimes, the most insignificant grouping of words can hold the most significant meaning.

(Chi 1997)> -wrap-foot> In 1 TD a dietician shortly entered in the middle of the conversation and had an insignificant contribution (TD9: 207 words, 0.1%% total ).

Trial by Jury underwent relatively minor textual changes after its first run, mainly consisting of insignificant amendments to wording.