Sentence examples for puny existence from inspiring English sources
The oddest work here is "Smash This Puny Existence" (1999), a series of poster-style photographs and texts by the London-based conceptual art collective Inventory.
Different readers seem to have come to different decisions about this, though Claudia's self-centredness argues against her being able to create unsuspected thoughts for even those who have been closest to her. "Egocentric Claudia is once again subordinating history to her own puny existence," the protagonist "says", in one of her passages of internal narration.
At moments like this when there is nothing to do but sift through wreckage, when the universe is scrambled and we perceive that some have emerged lucky and some unlucky, when we're faced with the puny proportions of our existence—I can't help but think of the poet Wislawa Szymborska.
Growth is somewhere between puny and non-existent.
In both situations, the big state feels a sense of grievance over the very existence of its puny neighbour and resents outsiders that act as its self-appointed protectors.
At one meter high a line of gold one millimeter thick represents humanity, putting us puny humans in perspective with the entirety of existence.
On two vertical cliffs in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain, 1000 or so puny, yamlike plants cling to life and despite the plant's precarious cliffside existence, it somehow manages to reproduce.
Africans think burgers puny.
