Sentence examples for its smallness from inspiring English sources

Its closeness to the Sun and its smallness make it the most elusive of the planets visible to the unaided eye.

I keep pointing this out, but apparently the Republican top brass aren't reading this blog: you can't simultaneously praise Palin's experience while getting a laugh from it because of its smallness.

V. S. Naipaul once observed that Mr. Narayan was interested not so much in the social changes that came to his archetypal Indian town as in "the lesser life that goes on below: small men, small schemes, big talk, limited means: a life so circumscribed that it appears whole and unviolated, its smallness never a subject for wonder, though India itself is felt to be vast".

And yet it seemed to me as striking for its smallness, just 160 feet of herringbone tile from end to end.

The message of its smallness seems to be this then: perhaps it ought still to remain a shameful secret, one from which we cannot but flinch, one that we would rather not record at all.

In his 1996 play, "The Designated Mourner" (in revival, at the Public, under the intuitive and graceful direction of Andre Gregory), what we notice first about the set is not its smallness or the large bed that dominates it but the cinereal light, and how the actors, who spend much of the play sitting as still as possible, look like statues in the rain.

Due to its intrinsic "smallness," it appears obvious to expect that noise effect is "small" and, in the presence of noise, the system behaves much as it would do in its absence.

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.

And its extreme smallness could pose difficulties for elderly persons whose hands shake, Dr. Kisiel added.

Graffiti in China is protected, for now at least, by its very smallness.