disproportion
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“It is not a great disproportion between ourselves and others which produces envy, but on the contrary, a proximity,” wrote David Hume, the 18th-century philosopher and economist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
In this past week’s election, this sense of disproportion helped bolster Balad, a small Arab party that won three times more votes in Lod than the other Arab-led parties combined.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2022
"There was a kind of disproportion," said Laure Khalil, the lawyer representing more than 100 of them.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2022
That doesn’t mean selling exceptional museum art to rectify the disproportion makes sense.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2022
His loyalty extended without disproportion to things, the patient, obstinate, reliable things that we use and get used to, the things we live by.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
In recent years, however, the disproportions have grown even more extreme.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2023
“However, these programs do not constitute a proper and comprehensive response. The industry needs to be compensated for the disproportions and restore some balance to the ecosystem.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2021
Paradoxically, because advertisers can no longer target by age or gender, they have little recourse to remedy these disproportions.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2019
It offers one of the most remarkable disproportions between the precise personalism of its action and the overwhelming scope of its achievement.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2015
All such disproportions are regrettable, but this is not extreme: we have seen horses of a different colour since then.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I see it wedged in the middle of my name I am conscious of an annoyance altogether disproportioned to the fact.
From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
"A mode of living so disproportioned to his well-known means must inevitably have elicited remark."
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James
The principal entrance was protected by a portcullis and drawbridge, and by an immense barbican, greatly disproportioned to the size of the castle, on the opposite site of the moat.
From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch
But this rice had to be paid for at a price very disproportioned to that of bread.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
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"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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