Reacting to Charen's CPAC appearance, one right-wing writer for Red State called her "a new voice in the wilderness of insignificance" — and then devoted 1,000 words to underscoring that insignificance.
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"No," I say, embarrassed by the insignificance of my problems.
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Indeed, Last Jedi is ultimately about Luke accepting his insignificance.
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Want to be a drone in a toiling march towards insignificance?
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Other parties are dwindling into insignificance, overshadowed by more radical alternatives.
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This difference was reduced to statistical insignificance by the following June.
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It was a sad, sudden realization, this feeling of smallness, of insignificance.
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Everyone realizing they were chosen for their insignificance is a heartbreaking moment.
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And all I got was a devastating reminder of my own insignificance.
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You suddenly realize that you are a person of the utmost insignificance.
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Brexit and monetary policy may pale into insignificance next to his new challenges.
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That pales into insignificance next to the real-life trauma of other people.
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Knife crime is a serious problem, but pales into insignificance beside American gun crime.
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Nervous authors called their books "gleanings" to stress their insignificance and fend critics off.
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It will make a respectable showing but pale to insignificance as a political force.
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Saudi Arabia has promised reform before, only for its efforts to fizzle into insignificance.
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But it seems that those possibilities pale into statistical insignificance in comparison to football.
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Much like Ai Weiwei's work, this clip should remind us of our relative insignificance.
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Even a thirteen-year-old knows the thrill and terror of his own insignificance.
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"We'll see how far they go, that pales into relative insignificance to Google," he said.
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Most external things fade into insignificance once you start playing music on Beyerdynamic's T5p.2s.
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We can see the time and space properties of the real world crumble into insignificance.
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" He said: "The price increases in tulips pale into insignificance compared to the cryptocurrency phenomenon.
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But it paled into insignificance compared with the currency's decline to a 250-year low.
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Once an insignificance, the PSL is now set to become the largest force in Congress.
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She'd been the soundtrack of adolescence, often validating feelings adults can whittle down to insignificance.
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For decades, pictures from space have forced humanity to reckon with our own cosmically small insignificance.
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The country had temporarily lost interest in celebrities, and she seemed to find her relative insignificance liberating.
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Compared with the number of total annual job losses, therefore, job losses from trade shrink into insignificance.
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Wade is in grave danger of being reversed or modified into insignificance should Mr. Kavanaugh be confirmed.
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Once something has entered into the cultural bloodstream of the Internet, its origins often dwindle to insignificance.
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It has faded back into utter insignificance, little other than an annoying impediment to the flow of traffic.
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Insignificance Marilyn and a couple of Joes — McCarthy and DiMaggio — together with Einstein in an actual hotel room.
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It has evolved from insignificance to become the biggest games market worldwide and is now starting to slow.
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But when you stand back and look at [things from] a cosmic scale, our insignificance is really interesting.
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But they melt into insignificance compared with the geological scale of the mountain the country must now climb.
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There are themes of insignificance and fragility and an element of things breaking down and building up again.
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"She continued: "On the other hand, it was interesting to tap into this humility and sense of insignificance.
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Plus, narcissists tend to be insecure, which may result in the feelings of "insignificance" pertinent to white nationalists.
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She also appeared in several of his other films, including "Eureka" (1983), "Insignificance" (1985) and "Track 29" (1988).
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Most of the neighborhood's places for samosas and naan, though, either are gone or have faded into insignificance.
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The city's sugary spires and golden filigree look at once better and worse for their current day insignificance.
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With 200,000 stars' worth of data to study, we can look forward to more significant confirmation of our insignificance.
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So, in celebration of our astrological insignificance, let's dive into a brief, abridged human history of the solar eclipse.
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All these weird omissions and errors pale into insignificance compared to the total absence of text in the movie.
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The New Jersey governor was impressive throughout the debate, but everything else paled into insignificance beside the Rubio moment.
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But the perpetrators of even the most atrocious deeds seem to have nothing in common beyond their personal insignificance.
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Over the next year, sales of decorated beach towels surged, while sales of the pillow-towels driveled into insignificance.
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In order to escape the terror of their own formlessness or insignificance, a few commit to some fanatical belief system.
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We fear the collective because we cannot control it, because it is a reminder of our own smallness and insignificance.
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They are typically motivated by feelings of "insignificance," and they tend to feel minority groups are responsible for their disempowerment.
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Dior's corsets were of lighter construction, but their nickname, "waspies," underlined their goal to pinch women's waists to wasplike insignificance.
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Hopefully the next time the CDC releases its report, the disparities observed in this report will have shrunk to insignificance.
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Mr. Macron has blasted into insignificance not only the National Front, but the traditional right and left parties as well.
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Samsung's market share in China has dwindled to near insignificance as competitors like Huawei and Xiaomi got the upper hand.
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Almost three-fourths of CNN's time over an eight hour period focused on Nunberg, who has since drifted into insignificance.
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What shortcomings there are, it is true, pale into insignificance compared with Donald Trump's empire of lies and misconduct (see article).
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They rage against their own powerlessness, insignificance, and the unlikelihood that a political punk album will make even a tiny difference.
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The IPO market has shrunk into insignificance; about 90% of today's successful startups "exit" by selling themselves to an established company.
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Which would make even a $1.63BN fine the company could face as a result of Friday's security breach pale into insignificance.
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I took a picture, acknowledged my insignificance and vowed never to do anything remotely foolish in the eyes of Mother Nature.
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Gerstl's self-portraits are equally compelling because he conflates narcissistic self-scrutiny with a sense of humility and his own insignificance.
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Many of these are given with supreme confidence, before they fade conveniently into insignificance as they whiz wide off the mark.
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Its malleability renders us doomed neither to repetition nor fleeting insignificance, but to a fate of responsibility in which we are storytellers.
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Former Maryland Governor O'Malley has had to fight against his own insignificance, never breaking through in what's become a two-candidate race.
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The play, Insignificance, imagines a clandestine meeting between two of the most famous figures of America's midcentury: Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe.
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The great danger is that, in America's two-party system, standing outside a party means relegating yourself and your movement to insignificance.
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The feeling of insignificance this engenders, of being pressed up against a magnitude that could crush you, could almost be called sublime.
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But just because nothing extreme is happening this season, does not mean nothing is happening at all: Don't mistake subtlety for insignificance.
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The point was to have a reason to attack, to reduce any of us to the insignificance that he felt that he was.
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If you love baseball, you might see something else: insignificance, undeniably, but also maybe a harbinger of what's coming once spring finally arrives.
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" Elsewhere, she quotes Roland Barthes: "The frivolous / insignificance of language, / the suspension of images / must be the very space / of love, its music.
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Or, alternately, a figure for zero — as in Milton's phrase "to turne the O of thir insignificance into a lamentation with the people"?
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"In reality, the threat posed to the supply of goods pales into insignificance when compared with the potential impact on demand," Wolfson said.
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Yet all these pale into insignificance against the biggest issue of all: what sort of deal can Britain extract from its 27 EU partners?
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Still, the Italian bank fund pales into insignificance compared with an estimated 360 billion euros in non-performing loans in Italy, CMC's Lawler said.
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A trade war would threaten to diminish living standards globally and risk reducing the World Trade Organization, the arbiter to such disputes, to insignificance.
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We should never have had to listen to him in the first place, but we can consider this his one last hurrah before eternal insignificance.
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These planes have propelled Emirates from insignificance a decade ago to its position as the world's biggest carrier (measured by international passenger mileage in 22013).
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Like visiting a planetarium, browsing the Wikiverse can inspire a sense of your own cosmic insignificance and ignorance of all the stuff that's out there.
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But we're looking at a sufficiently large number of companies to narrow the margin of error caused by those omissions to the point of insignificance.
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One small significance stands out amid all that relative insignificance: Charlie Villanueva, then in his 10th NBA season, played 43 minutes in those five games.
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In these protected areas, you can wander under a splatter of stars and grapple with the evidence of your own insignificance in a vast universe.
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Instead, in a giddy bubble of insignificance, the young parties are bustling through the political motions, setting up party headquarters, creating logos and drafting bylaws.
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The truth is, the universe far predates humans, it will far outlast humans, and contemplating its death is a depressing effort that highlights our incredible insignificance.
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But hey, maybe it'll stop us all from thinking about the inevitable heat death of the universe and our own terrifying insignificance for a little while.
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But he was still the one conjuring those immensities; the bind was how to acknowledge his own centrality in poems whose authority depended on his insignificance.
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"Mark Zuckerberg's Significant Insignificance," explores the meaning of one of the CEO's profile photos from 2013, posted nearly a decade after Facebook was founded in 2004.
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The basic realities of public health—how similar our needs are, how interconnected we are in daily life—defy these distinctions to the point of insignificance.
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As though he thought if he could persuade himself of my insignificance, he could persuade himself that I had nothing to do with his son's death.
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The earnings of the Silver Ferns pale into insignificance when compared to the salaries in men's sport, where top-tier All Blacks earn more than NZ$500,000.
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This weird, wonderful philosophical meditation on the nature of consciousness is an exercise in shaking hands with your own insignificance in the grand scheme of the universe.
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Moses is shown as a small, red-faced, squawking babe of the utmost insignificance who has just been rescued from his fragile wickerwork craft among the reeds.
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To be alive is to have the passion of Casanova without its isolation, inconstancy and despair, or the resolute certainty of Kant, without its monotony and insignificance.
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All the social norms of being a straight man in the bedroom (I must be the penetrator, I must be in charge) had literally been fucked into insignificance.
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A full 25 percent of the company's sales are made through Amazon; the company, in fact, lumps together the remainder of online sales because of its comparative insignificance.
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I don't have an answer, but sunlight has always been the best antiseptic and seeing most of these groups on a bare parade ground lays bare their insignificance.
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But in lyrical content, Maine tended toward both self-laceration and staring at the stars, pondering his own insignificance while also inflating his experiences to near mythological scale.
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HTC still releases smartphones but it has gone from being one of the biggest smartphone makers in the world in 2011, to almost insignificance in the global market.
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The justices reduced the "privileges or immunities" guaranteed to American citizens in the 20003th to virtual insignificance, insisting that most rights still derived from state, not national, citizenship.
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All of these epic battles pale into insignificance compared to these two kookaburra birds staring intently into each other's eyes in a fight for a single scrap of meat.
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Some of this—the stern silliness of the complaint and the lingering whiff of insignificance—has to do with the fact that the tragicomic Knicks were the offended party.
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We can see this aesthetic of insignificance played out in mainstream media's hesitancy to cover the pipeline protests (aka #NoDAPL), while the Bundy family's armed standoff made front pages.
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While the EU undoubtedly has concerns — not least over what's going to happen with the Irish border in all this — they rather pale into insignificance compared with our own.
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Inevitably a sense of insignificance intrudes: I think of all the lives in all the places waiting in their ways for something to grow out of them, into them.
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But, focusing almost exclusively on a single short text, it doesn't quite capture his special balance of lightness and gravity, the evanescent way he makes significance and insignificance flicker.
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But I have never been to a basketball game that scanned quite so much like a protest, not for or against any particular thing but against its own insignificance.
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In the service of the first, Phelps amplifies minor plot points and passing comments in the book and casts Poirot as past his prime, fearful of decrepitude and insignificance.
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Women and men of Asian ethnicities are so often neglected, excluded and marginalized in the Western academy, so as a college student I'd no doubt internalized my alleged insignificance.
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When captured by his enemies, he's plugged into a torture device that reveals to its victims their actual place in the universe (the resulting sense of insignificance drives people insane).
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In addition, the fact that the regime always puts the MEK on the negotiating table as a "diplomatic commodity," in Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield's words, gives the lie to its insignificance.
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However irritating consent messages pale into insignificance beside the massive risks posed to telco users' privacy by the spread of tracking technologies and big data processing techniques in recent years.
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So what I can put on the moon is an observation: My insignificance in relation to the universe, and to use that as a point of view for planet earth.
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They benefit from the exposure of a busy marathon calendar, but the cash on offer to them still pales into insignificance when compared with other sports like soccer and basketball.
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The R.S.S. is set to celebrate its hundredth year in 2025, and the temple that is likely to be built in time is an appropriate marker of its rise from insignificance.
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The two leads, by contrast, pale into wordy insignificance: Richard Madden's Romeo and, especially, Lily James's Juliet approach the verse from the outside in with little apparent connection to its meaning.
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We are living in an era when some advertising executive gazes at the moon and sees not beauty, or a humbling reminder of his insignificance, but the Earth's most unignorable billboard.
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What we should be trying to heal is often not physical disease or clinical depression, but a person's sense of insignificance and hopelessness, which we cannot heal by eliminating the person.
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If they drop — as third party candidates tend to do — toward statistical insignificance, then Trump will need to win over a lot of undecideds who plainly don't want to vote for him.
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Those benefits, however, dwindle into insignificance when compared with how the global economy might be hurt if the United States carries out its threat to slap another round of tariffs on imports.
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This duality is essential to the song's meditation on the relative insignificance of human life — you know, just light and casual stuff — but also the inherent significance in those little human epiphanies.
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A second explanation is that no matter how rocky geopolitics has become, the turbulence pales into insignificance compared with fears during Europe's sovereign-debt crisis that the single currency would break up.
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It was nearly impossible for these writers to discover a new faith, political or religious, to replace Communism and its power to erase the sense of insignificance that awaits any sentient person.
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But they didn't fear the sea in the same way, perhaps because to live on an isolated island in the Pacific is to never forget one's own insignificance, the utter temporality of life.
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In advance of Dark Matter's release this Friday, September 30, Williams took some time to talk about the 25 years it took to make the album and humanity's insignificance on a universal scale.
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HOTEL DRAMA, BROADWAY STYLE The Langham Place, New York, Fifth Avenue will welcome an unusual tenant to its room 505 next month, a stage production of the play "Insignificance," set to run Feb.
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But nobody expected that Europe would be incensed by suspicions that the U.S. was about to strike deals with China and Russia that would relegate the E.U. to the position of global insignificance.
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The public consensus appears to be that the third fight between the two only reaffirmed the insignificance of the matchup to begin with, since most analysts believe Pacquiao took their first two encounters.
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Yet "The Band's Visit" — which follows the modest adventures of a touring Egyptian band stranded in an Israeli village significant only for its insignificance — more than holds its own on a larger stage.
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There was so much about that that felt like for the first time in a while, a kind of moment of something greater than ourselves and our weird insignificance in all of it.
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But your child, as an adult, has been shaken by something that would not have been a problem had it been known all along (and would certainly have faded into insignificance by now).
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Even the £130 million that Google is paying now pales into insignificance relative to the billions in sales that the company generates in the United Kingdom, its second biggest market after the United States.
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Instantaneously, the micro becomes the macro, and I can't help but feel a sense of insignificance to whatever towering structure is floating in front of me, and whatever nearby planet is obscuring the stars.
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And if people face injustice, economic marginalization, and insignificance they think, 'Okay, we didn't get it right last time but we have to fight for it because this is our dream, this is our religion.
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But bad as these events were, they pale into insignificance beside the 1970 Bhola cyclone, in which a storm surge of up to 30 feet drowned more than 300,000 people in what is now Bangladesh.
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Yet in the face of this almost inconceivable insignificance, humanity is capable of great and kind things when we recognize we are one species, responsible for the care of each other, and our planet, together.
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Impressive as the former 2017 U.S. Open champion looked, however, her victory pales into insignificance with what happened the previous evening when the 15-year-old debutant Gauff took down five-time champion Venus Williams.
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There's always one guy, who fell through the cracks of society, who lived a life of solitary disappointment and who one day decided to try to make a blood-drenched leap from insignificance to infamy.
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With a labor movement dwindling into insignificance — only 6.5 percent of private-sector workers are unionized — economists like Mr. Weil and Mr. Katz suggest that new institutions are needed to hold up the bottom half.
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It's the subject of Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen, a collection of essays that peers into the messy, tangled world of virginity via examinations of Twilight, True Blood, Tahrir Square activism, and Bollywood.
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Ms. Night appears elsewhere in passing as Marilyn Monroe, the movie legend whom Mr. Johnson previously put center stage in the 1982 play, "Insignificance," that first made his name; that play gets a revival starting Oct.
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These women are people you know who have lost children and businesses and are consistently reminded of their insignificance by men who claim they love them — to the point that they had been reduced to mere transactions.
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With Gall's lustrous mise en scenes, the sallow and sullen bravado of the show's tiny pieces establishes a rhythm of pleasant discord that entails confronting intimidating and transcendent ideas (which foresee expiration) along with our own insignificance.
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Rianna Jade Parker and Pelin Keskin, who founded The Lonely Londoners in 2013, are gathering artists of color together to tell the stories of this generation of PoC artists, whose efforts are many but often cloaked in insignificance.
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With both having already topped the rankings, however, that will pale into insignificance compared to holding aloft the trophy on Saturday, having both suffered heartbreak on two occasions, Halep at the French and Wozniacki at the U.S. Open.
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As philosopher Samuel Scheffler has shown in his wonderful Death and the Afterlife, the prospect of our personal demise does not reduce existence to insignificance, but the extinction of the species—and by extension, of the universe—certainly might.
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I mean that it blends together what already made No Man's Sky so precious to me—the feeling of exploration, the insignificance of the self against the scale of real distance—with a narrative throughline that leans on these same things.
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One of the great stories of the year was the Red Bull team's leap from relative insignificance last season, when it finished fourth, to finishing second in the series this year and winning the only two races not won by Mercedes.
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More importantly, the data told the most accurate storyline: Theresa May's declining ratings, the emergence (and insignificance) of terrorism issues, the Tory strength in Scotland, and perhaps most importantly, the huge role that voters' age —particularly millennials — was to play in the outcome.
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"As a sleeper in metropolis, you are insignificance, dreams become entangled in the system," so go the opening lyrics, and suddenly you're every adolescent kid hanging on to the wonderment of youth whilst the darker allure of the adult world pulls ever stronger.
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Imagine an off-brand remix of the Tom Hanks movie Castaway with better hair, an exponentially more attractive lead (Nancy unzips and re-zips her rash guard several times throughout the film), and almost none of the weighty philosophizing about human insignificance.
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It may be the case that Herzog is eventually better known for his documentaries than his fiction features; they are never simple chronicles of events, but often use a subject to ponder humanity's insignificance in the vastness of nature and the cosmos.
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"Inappropriate" can elevate a small thing into significance (an employee is written up for an "inappropriate" hairstyle) or collapse a large thing into insignificance (the C.E.O. allows that it may have been "inappropriate" to use the company jet for millions in personal travel).
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But if there were an artist who could forgive the world for its indifference, it would be Shaffer, who in Amadeus's Antonio Salieri created a character whose claim to greatness rests on his encounter with Mozart and the subsequent reckoning with his own insignificance.
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Their insignificance is indicated both by their tiny scale against the Essex landscape and by the metal detectors they carry, the apparatus of the all-absorbing hobby that buffers them from the annoying realities of life — Andy's timidity and joblessness, Lance's loneliness and perpetually bruised ego.
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Millie is thirty: young enough to expect more from life than twelve dollars an hour at work and episodes of "Forensic Files" on her laptop, but old enough to see that, although her job may be temporary, her feelings of insignificance and inadequacy might never go away.
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At the risk of overstating things, the game's never-ending layers of multiverses, virtual realities, and insistence on my insignificance in the grander scheme of things—well, it feels like the voice of an entire generation adrift and questioning their place in this unreal, broken world.
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The space thing, the feeling that you were in a movie, the sensation that this spectacle could only be matched in magnitude by two aircraft carriers colliding—all of it was part of a grand plan to reveal both human insignificance and the sheer power of human ingenuity.
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Read more: The victims are seeking monetary damages for their hardship as well as reimbursement for court and legal expenses"I can't imagine another individual having to experience the fear, turmoil and feelings of insignificance that haunt me every day," one of the victims said at the press conference.
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Even that, though, pales into insignificance when compared with Qatar's sponsorship deals with Barcelona, the establishment and expansion of the broadcaster beIN Sports, or the billion or so dollars spent on the purchase and subsequent transformation of Paris St.-Germain into one of Europe's most powerful and most glamorous clubs.
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More insignificance, more rustling crowds, more moments that are only marginally meaningful, if that, which will all add up and end up somewhere very different and very much more exciting; this will likely happen in this WBC, too, and in however many other ones we get, if only because that's how the game works.
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Critics have cited Trump's tendencies to demand ludicrous amounts of loyalty, to rashly kick people out of his service, and to ramble nonsensically in ways that make him seem a bit like a man in denial of — or perhaps coming all too rapidly to terms with — his own increasing insignificance to Lear's, an argument that is not without support.
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"No-one undertaking serious study of the Western Front in 215-21917 can fail to recognize the insignificance of the British 'battles' that loom so large in our historiography, in contrast to the massive engagements involving hundreds of thousands of men, backed by hundreds of guns, in the 'real' war fought between the French and Germans," says Hart.
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When John Lennon saw him in his big white sports jacket, black drainies, and ducktail, he thought he had discovered another Elvis, and felt that his recruitment of Mr McCartney was one of his finest achievements, the discovery of someone with whom he could not only write, but also harmonise, and in so doing, escape poverty and insignificance.
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It is a strange fate that everything that I have, of set artistic purpose, laboured to leave indefinite, suggestive, in the penumbra of initial inspiration, should have that light turned on to it and its insignificance (as compared with I might say without megalomania the ampleness of my conceptions) exposed for any fool to comment upon. . . .
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Its focus on the claimed global and military insignificance of the UK was the only thing that stood out among the predictable comments about the inevitable victory of IS — a claim incessantly made by the group despite (or perhaps because of) the long and growing list of military defeats it has suffered over the past year.
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Playlist: "Once" / "Release" / "Leash" / "Daughter" / "I Got Id" / "Last Exit" / "Corduroy" / "Hail, Hail" / "Smile" / "Given to Fly" / "In Hiding" / "Insignificance" / "The Fixer" Spotify | Apple Music One of the chief complaints people have with Pearl Jam is that they're overly earnest, and while Vedder's lyrics have always had an angst-fueled sentimentality to them, it's something he learned from the king of heart-on-sleeve songwriting: Bruce Springsteen.
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Of the fortunate fact that I am not alone in suffering from this vice, unworthy in all its insignificance, I am reminded every time I'm in town, where the streets and sidewalks outside the places where people gather are full of white spots, distributed as randomly as the stars in the sky, and in the dark, lit up by street lamps and shimmering faintly against the black asphalt, what the gum-flecked pavement most resembles is indeed a starry sky.
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