15 Verbs to Use for the Word insignificance

On this lofty crest of a devil-tossed land she felt the insignificance of a fly clinging to the brow of an abyss.

And now forget," she says, "how you lived here, because not for you I did all this; I was merely diverting myself, but you must never even think of such a life; always remember your insignificance, and of what station you are."

"We forget, while we consider the insignificance of that individual man, moving in yonder street and who is scarcely visible to us, that we ourselves are equally insignificant.

On deck you cannot realize this feeling, for there sails and yards tower above you, and masts, and boats, and cordage intercept your view; but from above you take in the intense minuteness of your home at a single glanceyou stand aside, as it were, and in some measure comprehend the insignificance of the thing to which you have committed your life.

He was a young man, this was his first sight of the tropics, he came straight from England, where Nature is hedged, ditched, and drained, into the perfection of submission, and he had suddenly discovered the insignificance of man.

He only goes there to hide his insignificance in a larger crowd.

Presently she left the barnthrough sheer insignificance.

They do not well understand what and where he has been; the tradition of his gifted youth when he was dedicated to the church and forsook her service at the altar for her service in the field, remains unquestioned, and he is safe in the refuge of his family who can offer mainly their insignificance for his protection.

Then, with a blast of bitterest disappointment, he realized the insignificance of his own selfthe earthiness of his own personality, the dead, dull ordinariness of his own appearance.

and it would have been a sob, why, then I felt there must be something of nature in them which redeemed their seeming insignificance.

I know we can do much; but a gale may come that would teach us our insignificance.

I fear we shall have to admit our insignificance on this point.

The signature of the soul, brilliant in purity, lay there, transforming the insignificance of the features with the grandeur and nobility of its own power.

Beneath the blasts of a trade depression, or some other tendency of world-wide scope, the authority of the mightiest industrial magnate, and equally of any Government, assumes the same essential insignificance as the pride of a man humbled by contact with the elemental powers of nature.

Or, even supposing that the King survives, and that you continue childless while the Prince becomes the father of a son, whom all France will regard as its future sovereign, how will you be able to brook the comparative insignificance to which you must be reduced?

15 Verbs to Use for the Word  insignificance