As much as he enjoyed his career, it paled into insignificance beside the love he felt for his family. |
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This achievement opposes the insignificance and temporality the writer's life. |
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Benefits like this, however, fade into insignificance compared to the bigger picture. |
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The film is a cumbersome, wayward commercial endeavor that goes over like a lead balloon before plummeting into insignificance. |
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Compared with the famine, the repossessions of the 1990s pale into insignificance. |
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Her government's standard of sleaze, corruption and lying were soon to pale into insignificance, when their successors got weaving. |
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I take my petty troubles and watch them pale into insignificance beside the enormity of the battles you fight. |
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But all of this pales into insignificance alongside the news that I am beginning to disintegrate. |
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The humiliation and emotional deprivation suffered by the girls makes everyone else's horror school stories pale into insignificance. |
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In a moment, and as if by magic, all other issues of national crisis paled into insignificance. |
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When you count your blessings, your problems are solved, or at least their impact comes down, and they pale into insignificance. |
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I admit that there is a slight element of cruelty in fishing, but it pales into insignificance when compared with fox-hunting. |
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The insignificance of poems that directly describe an unmediated experience is the emperor without clothes. |
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These can make the interest payable pale into insignificance and push someone already in debt into an irrecoverable position. |
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It got to such a pitch that all other Olympic rivals paled into insignificance. |
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Okonkwo's insignificance grated on him as much as the presence of the white men and the way that they unraveled the tapestry of Ibo society. |
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They all pale into complete insignificance when compared with the beautiful and well-constructed Wuthering Heights. |
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Both of those paled into insignificance in comparison to episode three, though. |
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Canadian consumers appear to have understood the insignificance of the health risk. |
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Rarely does a performer with such negligible talent flaunt his insignificance with such wanton panache. |
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Their intent is to make a kitsch, camp, over the top soap opera, with storylines to make all the other soaps pale into insignificance. |
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The bonfire which was lit on the beach that evening was dwarfed into insignificance by the reflection it threw out over the water. |
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Alongside this threat, another existed which made anthrax pale into insignificance. |
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Also, standing beside the life-sized model of Angus, my ampleness paled into insignificance. |
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All impacts were found to be mitigable to levels of insignificance. |
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He steals every scene, with his co-stars paling into insignificance. |
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If a piece is too large or ostentatious, the rest of your garden could pale into insignificance, overshadowing all your previous months or years of hard work in an instant. |
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But, according to the teaching unions, even this pales into insignificance beside the problems of dealing with increasingly unruly pupils and, above all, a crippling workload. |
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Then again, this slightness may be one of countless authorial jokes about just what it is insignificance entails. |
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The rest paled into insignificance compared with the off-field activities of Cantona, who briefly went berserk four minutes after half-time. |
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But these gloomy thoughts soon pale into insignificance after just one morning surgery at my practice. |
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But that sum pales into insignificance besides the value of the Qatari royal family's other holdings in London. |
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Framed this way, the amounts currently contemplated shrink into insignificance. |
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Made painfully aware of his insignificance in her eyes next to his elder brother, he only recovered a sense of self-esteem while at Oxford. |
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The need to raise outside capital to finance growth can slowly dilute the family's stake to insignificance. |
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There is a force more powerful than we are, and from time to time it humbles us and reminds us of our insignificance. |
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Elsewhere, mass nuclear disarmament organizations have either dwindled into insignificance or disappeared. |
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And yet, despite its insignificance, the reflection does faithfully indicate the shape and markings of the full moon. |
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Jerusalem itself has faded into insignificance behind the icons of a much disputed prize. |
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Because of its relative insignificance, financial income is listed under additional income. |
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If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators. |
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My fundamental claim is that some members of the Opus Dei tend to cultivate their own insignificance. |
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The most bizarre thing is that this is somehow all balanced out by the baby giving us the merest hint of a smile, besides which our complaints pale into insignificance. |
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He was brilliantly convincing with a strong Irish brogue, righteous indignation when confronted with the insignificance of his rumours, and disarming blarney. |
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Like a mountain, a large building can remind us of our own insignificance. |
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To trivialize its message is to comment on our own insignificance. |
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Somehow those emails that had seemed so important last week paled to insignificance today. |
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If a Queen did cheat, her crimes fade into insignificance compared to the extensive philandering engaged in by medieval monarchs. |
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Albertan opposition parties are tiny to the point of insignificance. |
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No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. |
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However, because of the relative miserliness of the prizes involved in those days, the American quiz show scandals pale into insignificance next to this one. |
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I reflect for a time upon my own life and dwell a little on the insignificance of my efforts, the selfishness of my concerns, the narrowness of my sympathies. |
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The inconvenience of not being able to fill up a swimming pool pales into insignificance when considering the problems facing farmers during prolonged dry periods. |
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We've just done an assessment of the current shipping risks and they pale into insignificance when you consider the potential impacts of a major spill. |
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Beauty aside, the canyon imparts a healthy dose of insignificance. |
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Because consumption aid was abolished by the 1998 reform and because of the insignificance of export refunds, the Court's follow-up concentrates on the production aid to olive oil producers. |
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But all that pales into insignificance when an unknown ill-wisher shows the couple exactly how unwelcome they are in the village. |
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The positive aspects: the Galileo project, the health insurance card, and some other things, pale into insignificance against these reasons that I have tried to outline, at least for us. |
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No charges in respect of the capital markets environment were designated as notable items in the third quarter in light of the relative insignificance of the amounts. |
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Little things must be considered important, just as we must guard against the outstanding weakness of democracy: a sense of the insignificance of personal effort in national and international affairs. |
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It can be a fleeing from fear, insignificance or emptiness. |
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The abduction of little more than 10 Japanese citizens paled into insignificance in comparison with the grave crimes committed against Korea by Japan. |
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Opposition will certainly arise in an attempt to reduce this new objective to insignificance, while all possible abuses will be lying in wait for it and, along with those, the risk of a long-lasting disqualification. |
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What will it take for this government to tell us the truth about this scandal that is marring our reputation on the world stage because of their insignificance, their incompetence and their dishonesty? |
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For certain products processed from cereals, the insignificance of Community participation in world trade makes it unnecessary to fix an export refund at the present time. |
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Although the financial aid of foreign municipalities pales into insignificance when compared to the total amount of reconstruction budget, it had an added value that other stakeholders could not provide. |
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From the anomalous insignificance of fagdom Colin climbed up the School, leaving everywhere a record of honest good-nature. |
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Other older gods of the agricultural world fused with those of the more powerful invaders or else faded into insignificance. |
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Yet the return of Titus further highlighted the comparative insignificance of Domitian, both militarily and politically. |
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Minutiae over latitude degrees paled in insignificance with the excitement of the new discoveries revealed in the letters. |
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The action is, in short, thin yet heavy, burdened with a pointless complexity that serves, above all, to mask — with music and quick cuts — the insignificance, impersonality, and indistinctness of each of its elements. |
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With the infinite vastness on one side and the swirling blue waters and green land masses on the other, Curtis felt his own insignificance for the first time. |
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Some had once been important places or had played a major role in England's history, but had fallen into insignificance as for example industry moved away. |
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