For Sandor, personal factors like food choices and driving habits are small facets of a far larger issue: making pollution so costly that our only rational choice is to stop.
In 1777 William Hutchinson of Liverpool, England, produced the first practical mirrors for lighthouses, consisting of a large number of small facets of silvered glass set in a plaster cast molded to a paraboloid form.
And I wonder if this could be one small facet of one of the answers.
Mr. Schlingensief's contact with opera made up a relatively small facet of a tumultuous career that sometimes had nothing to do with the arts.
(This small facet of the performance helps when it's revealed that Brooks wants to be hated, so the team can bond in its dislike of him.) Taking a group of young, unproven players allows him to beat them down by constant pressure into the unit he wants -- he says they may not be the best team, but they're the right one.
The hiring of a press secretary is just one small facet of the intricate relationship that has been established over the last year, a relationship that got off to a rocky start last summer after Mr. Bloomberg won control of the schools and hired Mr. Klein.
That Hooper gets so much wrong in this small facet of the peppered moth story may be a function of the agenda that she was writing to, or, more probably, was a result of Hooper understanding neither how natural selection operates nor how peppered moths behave and interact with their predators.
The poster on its own isn't much more than an irritating fad, but it represents one small facet of a bigger trend.
"The fact that Ben has come out as homosexual is just a small facet of who he is and what he is going to bring to Cyclops' select team of X-Men".
Of course, queer retellings are only a small facet of a larger movement toward LGBTQ representation and visibility in every corner of art and culture, but they're a crucial one.
