Sentence examples for of us lesser from inspiring English sources

And as the names are read, plenty of us lesser mortals will ask the same question: "Who?" Ian Sample is the Guardian's science correspondent This article was amended on 8 October 2012.

If even the possessor of the greatest and most wide-ranging historical mind I ever expect to encounter could be marked in this way, then which of the rest of us lesser intellectual fry is likely to be wholly different?

I keep hoping that our leaders will not drive out the good in their quest to create some kind of perfect world according to their own vision -- a vision often informed only by other elites like themselves, or major philanthropists, unenlightened by the real lived experience of us lesser lights who are mere practitioners of the educational arts.

The talent might appear different because those of us with lesser ability imagine ourselves guarding it jealously, rationing it out, tending it like a secret garden.

It's in all of us, to lesser or more intensive degrees, and whether active or dormant, its imperative or waning may shift at any time.

As in many climbing books, the why is insufficiently addressed for those of us content with lesser mountains or even armchairs.

A story that taps into the difficulties all of us face, to a lesser extent, in just trying to fit in.

Some of us noted that the lesser blue Democratic parts were stuffed with actual voters, while much of the giant red Republican swath had more rocks and coyote.

(And even if it only surfaces on television in the most maudlin or chipper of terms, we know how much all of us, in greater and lesser ways, struggle with trial and disability).

We may think we poke fun at women who go over-the-top in chasing the beauty standard because they look silly or vain, but it's more that they're exposing the work many of us do on a lesser level: We laugh at Snooki's tan because it reveals our private application of graduated tanning cream; we snark at Kardashianesque eyelashes because we have the good taste to stop at one coat of Sable Brown.

His 2nd, 4th or 10th thoughts are often as fresh as his first ones (though some of us have lived through his lesser 5th and 7th thoughts too).