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
Such a disproportion between fundraising and expenditure, between money coming in and money going out, is frankly unsustainable for this — or any — art museum, especially when inflation is factored in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
This top-heavy treatment of the “Messiah” isn’t uncommon — that centerpiece “Hallelujah” can justify just about any level of choral disproportion.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2022
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
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
He was of the ordinary stature, and had the ordinary aspects; yet in him were hidden such strange contradictions and disproportions!
From Christian Science by Mark Twain
Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bonaparte was the great mark of their sarcasms, and, from some cause or other, seemed to enjoy a most disproportioned share of their dislike and derision.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
Bonaparte was the great mark of all their sarcasms, and, from some cause or other, seemed to enjoy a most disproportioned share of their dislike and derision.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
It is not to be denied that there are many excellent manufacturing establishments in and around the city, but the number is greatly below what is needed and greatly disproportioned to the advantages offered here.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
His head, enormously disproportioned to the rest of his figure, presented a number of flat surfaces, as though nature had originally destined it for a crystal.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
Vocabulary lists containing disproportion
"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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