Sentence examples for proved so small from inspiring English sources

The one-word ­poems briefly the rage in the 1960s (one of the more famous was Aram Saroyan's "oxygen," just the element such a poem lacked) established that an ironic gesture needs no more than a single word to make its case — it's unfortunate that the argument proved so small and uninteresting.

All the big countries' voting weights have increased at the expense of small countries.This change proved so hard for the small countries to swallow that it brought them to the brink of walking out.

The glut of power forwards might push Anthony back to small forward, robbing the Knicks of the explosive small lineup that proved so effective last season.

But nothing proved so cut and dried.

Europeans have not proved so adaptable.

Rarely has a Justice proved so disappointing.

Myth-making has never proved so easy.

Never have "arrears" proved so timely.

Why have the Taliban proved so resilient?

Why has it proved so popular?

So why has translation proved so difficult in these studies?