Sentence examples for smallest matter from inspiring English sources
Even the smallest matter can carry baggage, as does the question of which of the Cooper brothers, left to fend for themselves during the week, will clean the family skillet after it is left unwashed long enough to produce maggots.
"Are you indecisive, incapable of making a decision about anything, even the smallest matter?" Her indecisiveniess has grown so bad of late, that she she goes off on a weekend she can't make up her mind about whether to pack handkerchiefs or not, with out tossing coins.
"If we compare the knowledge of the Japanese and Westerners, in letters, in techniques, in commerce or in industry, from the largest to the smallest matter, there is not one thing in which we excel," wrote Fukuzawa Yukichi, a towering figure of the Meiji era, which began in 1868.
Here are those Stansburys: the grandmother who stays for hours at rallies but cannot find the strength to go to church or cook a meal; the mother who can lash out at people over the smallest matter, then wish them a blessed day; the father who speaks aloud to God as a means of staving off violent impulses; and the sister who quietly plans to ease the family's pain by getting pregnant.
Even in the smallest matter.
This was no small matter.
"This is not a small matter".
That last question is no small matter.
