puniness

(One advantage of their puniness is how easily they fit in my pockets).

On a seven percent grade its puniness showed.

What a change from their former puniness!

It ended, inevitably, with his own puniness.

Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.

But that doesn't mean Anthony is proud: he's embarrassed by Lydia's puniness and doesn't want to be seen with her.

Theirs is a hardscrabble land and they live close to it; their vista, a constant reminder of the puniness of human scale.

He may underestimate the effects of pervasive state terror, the puniness of the individual living in the leviathan state.

That damned open sky mocks our human vulnerability, throwing down great bolts of laughter at our puniness.

What was thrown off in infancy - the feeling of puniness, of being a defenceless object - creeps back on the battlefield.

At that moment a strong sense of oneness is felt with all things because of our dependence on this power and our puniness and helplessness.

The Servitors consider themselves more favoured in their tasks than the Workers; and the Workers tend to regard the puniness of the Servitors with a semiaffectionate contempt.

The "97-pound weakling" advertisement that Mr. Roman devised relatively early in his career was built around a phrase he coined that became an enduring metaphor for puniness and humiliation.

Everything is supposed to take on a new perspective from this oasis of humanity out in space-the vastness of the universe and the puniness of Man, and that kind of thing.

(In interviews, he said that his father remarked on the puniness of his Rocky physique, a dig that clearly goaded Stallone into pumping himself up, in all senses.)

Despite the relative puniness of the attacks, oil markets quickly reacted to the violence with a jittery bump up in prices, with key prices in the United States rising $1.87 a barrel, to $43.64.

When the literal ground is pulled out from under us - or the President is shot or the shuttle explodes - we are children again, transfixed by our puniness, and the only caregiver in sight is television.

The natural piano's puniness next to busy electronic rhythmic figures may not have been the intention of Milica Paranosic's "Buggatack," but top-heaviness from the plugged-in side simply crushed the dullness around it.

Hoffman is a 'character' emanating a naive or crotchety puniness; in this part, however, a more neutral figure, scholarly and aloof but not infantile or even doltish in appearance, would have been vastly preferable.'

Many in the news business, both in print and broadcast, mutter to one another about the gargantuan size of the press corps here - 15,000 plus, or more than seven for every delegate - and the puniness of the story.

It was a recurrent feeling with me, one that I would always forget until I again realized the same thing: the puniness of humanity against the immensity of that thing-in-itself which I had seen reflected in the mirror.

It was always this way: that feeling of freedom, of strength, of power, when be was the ship - and the sense of puniness, of being an insect bound to the flesh, and one of billions, when he came out of it.

As in his cubhood he had been made to feel his smallness and puniness on the day he first came in from the Wild to the village of Grey Beaver, so now, in his full- grown stature and pride of strength, he was made to feel small and puny.

Never mind that these pictures owed much to Remington and the other Western painters, never mind that his beloved Monument Valley was an anomalous Western landscape, God's own grandiose and falsifying stage set, which Ford nonetheless used powerfully to suggest the puniness and fragility of man and his works.