Sentence examples for tiny events from inspiring English sources

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Tiny events; but why, then, is the ageing manservant to be found, near the end of his holiday, weeping before a complete stranger on the pier at Weymouth?

These tiny events repeat themselves until time seems gently to dissolve into what Yogi Berra called "deja vu all over again".

One of its ideas is that seemingly tiny events can have big impacts, so that a beating of a butterfly's wing could lead to a hurricane on the other side of the world.

Rather, I was looking to recreate as many as I could find of the often tiny events, along with the interlocking urban machinery, that went to make up a day in the life of what had become the world city; and to do so, I spent many hours looking at the capital's proliferating local press, especially for all the new, anonymous-sounding suburban settlements.

But predicting the evolution of storms requires even more precision, since they are only tiny events compared to the overall scale of the planet.

In today's wired world, our society is a non-linear complex system--email address books pointed to address books pointed to address books--which means it is capable of huge changes being triggered by tiny events.

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An aide with a pickup truck drove him from one tiny event to another, all across the state.

This tiny event, put on by Abracadabra at this small art gallery on the Lower East Side, wasn't an official CMJ show, but probably couldn't have happened without CMJ.

As in the famous Ray Bradbury story "A Sound of Thunder" (in which a time traveler kills a butterfly in the days of the dinosaurs and discovers, upon returning to the present, that this tiny event has apparently created a mind-boggling cascade of changes), Mr. Greenfield's small twists of fate set dominoes tumbling in all directions — from the small to the tragic.

Although the length of Downtown Disney is comparable to that of several city blocks, the shopping street remains a comparatively tiny event within the resort districts, which cover a two-and-a-half-square-mile area of the city and include three of the city's busiest corridors.

"The vice-president is coming to our little tiny event!" She was not the only observer surprised that Joe Biden had taken time out of more conventional vice presidential duties to fly 893 miles to shake hands, rail against economic inequality and pose for pictures with eleven nuns about to embark on a road trip.

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