Sentence examples for its relative smallness from inspiring English sources

On either interpretation, if nous were simply an ordinary ingredient on a par with the other basic ingredients, then, as Anaxagoras notes in B12, its relative smallness would allow it to be swamped and overcome ("thwarted") by the other ingredients.

Whether that is because of something fundamentally different about Bahaiism, its relative youth (150 years old) or its relative smallness (5 million members worldwide), I do not know.

The relative smallness of the Riddley vocabulary and the apparent simplicity of its syntax means that meanings are layered on meanings, and that becomes meaningful in itself.

But that relative smallness said a great deal — all of it good — about the aims of Mr. Davis, a dancer who came to public attention as a choreographer for the Fugate/Bahiri Ballet NY.

Or, as Hall speculates, "the relative smallness and weakness of smaller human ancestors might be responsible for nothing less than the birth of civilization".

But that's the first mistake you can make with Knussen and his music, to confuse this relative smallness of scale with a miniaturism of ambition or achievement.

Critics hate the proposed arms, fearing that their relative smallness will breech the firewall between conventional and nuclear war and pose a new threat to world security.

The self-miniaturization was, perhaps, intended to acknowledge the relative smallness of the artist's own experience in comparison with what Mohammed el Gharani had endured.

The torments the poor young woman suffers sometimes seem a little excessive compared with the relative smallness of her crime — she's hardly a Bernie Madoff — and that's part of Mr. Raimi's intention.

The unusual prominence of the woodwinds throughout seemed to stem more from the relative smallness of the string sections than from any indiscipline or imbalance, and gave the work unusual, piquant colorings.

I wondered why my mother would consider big Catholic families "difficult," because I always regretted the relative smallness of our own: after all, we were part of the postwar baby boom, when families with six or seven kids were not uncommon.