"Frequently used in place of ` degrade', " synonymizes the philological hairsplitter, " in the sense of ` demote'when the ignominy of the reduction in rank is emphasized . . . but often suggests a salutary increase of humility or the realization of one's own littleness or impotence ."
22.
The efforts of T . E . Lawrence ( " " Lawrence of Arabia " " ) were greatly aided by Allenby in the Arab Revolt, and he thought highly of Allenby : " ( He was ) physically large and confident, and morally so great that the comprehension of our littleness came slow to him ".
23.
His conclusion is, " With rev'rent glance Creation scan, And learn thy littleness, O Man ! " The same solemnity underlies the unascribed prose retelling at the head of the section on creation in yet another work of popular theology, " Anecdotes and Examples illustrating the Catholic catechism ", published in New York in 1904.
24.
She hits the sustained blasts on the words " Everybody rise & rise ", the awe-filled summons to toast those ladies, and it's impressive, but it's the calm way Stritch delivers the rest of Sondheim's summary of post-marital female decline, of the long littleness of life, that's a revelation.
25.
In such works as the " Twopenny Post-bag " and, to a lesser degree, " The Fudge Family in Paris ", Moore's " light, agreeable, polished style pierces through the body of the court . . . weighs the vanity of fashion in tremulous scales, mimics the grimace of affectation and folly, shows up the littleness of the great, and spears a phalanx of statemen with its glittering point as with a diamond brooch ."
26.
She wrote, " I applied myself especially to practice little virtues, not having the facility to perform great ones . . . In her letters from this period of her novitiate, Th�r�se returned over and over to the theme of littleness, referring to herself as a grain of sand, an image she borrowed from Pauline . . .'Always littler, lighter, in order to be lifted more easily by the breeze of love .'The remainder of her life would be defined by retreat and subtraction ."
27.
As I sat and thought, the streaked and mottled pillars and wall, the various views, aspects, and portraits of vested waiters, would dissolve and vanish, and I would have a vision of this sample of miscellaneous men of limited, diverse interests and a universal littleness of imagination enlarged, unlimited, no longer a sample but a community, spreading, stretching out to infinity all in little groups and duologues and circles, all with their special and narrow concerns, all with their backs to most of the others.
