Even ordinary belief — the kind that seeks epiphanies between deadlines, and struggles even with the meager self-discipline required to get through Lent — depends on extraordinary examples, whether they're embedded in our communities or cloistered in the great silence of a monastery.
We anticipate that this study will aid in increasing our meager understanding of self-renewal in ES, EC, iPS and cancer cells.
Washington Post editors: "By those standards, the results thus far of the Obama administration's efforts to marshal an alliance to fight the self-described Islamic State look meager.
Indeed, pride seems both to require reference to an idea of the self, and to buttress whatever meager idea we may already have by directing the mind to an idea of the self outfitted with various pleasurable associations.
In 1997, in exchange for meager subsidies, Congress required that Amtrak be "operationally self-sufficient" by December of this year, or else.
One of the many things that appeals to me about humanity (besides organic grocery markets) is our quixotic attempts at self-expression despite the obstacles of occasionally meager intelligence, extreme emotional immaturity and oft-misguided passion.
The self-taught artist Eugene Von Bruenchenhein was a slight man of meager means.
Parents who bolster children's self-esteem by avoiding criticism and praising accomplishments, however meager, can encourage in them a lifelong can-do attitude.
Justice Thomas describes his intellectual journey, and his struggle to keep body and soul together on meager government pay, in some of the book's most absorbing and self-critical chapters.
" 'Somewhere someone was suffering.' " Even after the war, she continued her self - abnegating regimen, concluding "that I should own absolutely NOTHING," and devoting her meager resources to "many crusades".
