puniness

Example Sentences

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It’s a reminder of the puniness of our world when the earth shrugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2017

Tinier than Tonga and just three-fifths the area of New York City, it has long fretted about its congenital puniness.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2017

Reconciling the puniness of Katniss Everdeen’s boyfriend dilemma with the scale of the political violence erupting around her was somehow less morally vexing in the first two chapters, The Hunger Games and Catching Fire.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2014

“Lucy” and “Limitless” were both built on the canard that we use only a small percentage of our brains, a misconception that probably lingers because it’s such a tidy metaphor for our sense of puniness.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2014

It was she who made us feel the breathless height of the structure and the relative puniness of the humans who had built it.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey