Sir Oliver Lodge spoke strongly in favour of these institutions, calling them a protest against the idea of the comparative unimportance of childhood.

Why cannot he be allowed to rest, once for all, in his amiable unimportance?

I do not think this attitude was due to the influence of Petrarch having lessened his admiration of Dante, as maintained by Wicksteed and Gardner, but simply to his recognition of the absolute unimportance of the poems in question from the historical point of view.

I felt the negation, the sudden slipping into insignificant unimportance of the whole of the Western worldand, at the same time, the dismissal of the East.

His racy accounts of Mrs. Popham's pessimism, which had grown prodigiously from living in the house with his optimism; his anecdotes of Lallie Joy Popham, who was given to moods, having inherited portions of her father's incurable hopefulness, and fragments of her mother's ineradicable gloom,these were of a character that made the finishing of the hall a matter of profound unimportance.

For the Brontë genius was above all things deputed to assert the supreme unimportance of externals.

You can leave your king in his corner then to amuse himself in dignified unimportance.