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  • His broad back still ached from the corporal mortification he had endured earlier today, and yet the pain was inconsequential compared with the anguish of his life before Opus Dei had saved him.†   (source)
  • The attack was so inconsequential, according to the king, that it barely warranted notice.†   (source)
  • And I am someone who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near-death experiences stop her.†   (source)
  • Inconsequential Worse yet, wasteful.†   (source)
  • The pencil itself is inconsequential.†   (source)
  • But before I do, I wonder at how frail and inconsequential my mother has become.†   (source)
  • I'm tall," said Ron inconsequentially.†   (source)
  • He felt jerked around by his own dick, as if the rest of him was merely an inconsequential knob that happened to be attached to one end of it.†   (source)
  • She crossed her arms and braced for another inconsequential detail in which others invested meaning.†   (source)
  • Because Cairnholm was too distant and too inconsequential to justify the cost of running power lines from the mainland, foul-smelling diesel generators buzzed on every corner like angry wasps, harmonizing with the growl of tractors, the island's only vehicular traffic.†   (source)
  • But after eighteen years of Gogol, two months of Nikhil feel scant, inconsequential.†   (source)
  • This--this--game you two play, where you tell each other secrets but keep them from me like I'm too inconsequential or stupid or weak to handle them.†   (source)
  • In a statement he'd later repeat again and again during hearings about his research, Southam wrote, "It is, of course, inconsequential whether these are cancer cells or not, since they are foreign to the recipient and hence are rejected.†   (source)
  • It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America.†   (source)
  • As this date grew ever nearer, the pressures on myself, though of an altogether more humble nature than those mounting on his lordship, were nevertheless not inconsequential.†   (source)
  • Mother was bustling about the living room, Father was practising his violin and I was sitting in an armchair reading, when some inconsequential programme was suddenly interrupted and a voice said that an announcement of the utmost importance was about to be made.†   (source)
  • I have to ask, as inconsequential as the question now seems.†   (source)
  • He thought they were stupid, inconsequential, irritating.†   (source)
  • Why had it taken so long to see that what it really said was "What you like is bad, or at least inconsequential."†   (source)
  • My private mourning had become a public therapy session, and in this crowd there was no shame in admitting a real, piercing grief for something as seemingly inconsequential as an old, smelly dog.†   (source)
  • His arms were folded, now, and he seemed of a piece with the split-rail fence behind him-numb, brown and inconsequential.†   (source)
  • My days are inconsequential, comprising simple moments and even simpler pleasures.†   (source)
  • They chatted about other, inconsequential happenings and then bade each other farewell.†   (source)
  • The judge presiding was inconsequential to him: someone who would rubber-stamp this process and turn it over to the court where Jordan would have to put on his dog-and-pony show.†   (source)
  • The implications of those two studies go to the heart of the Law of the Few, because they suggest that what we think of as inner states — preferences and emotions — are actually powerfully and imperceptibly influenced by seemingly inconsequential personal influences, by a newscaster we watch for a few minutes a day or by someone we sit next to, in silence, in a two-minute experiment.†   (source)
  • Starting with that night the dull, inconsequential battles began again and would go on until dawn.†   (source)
  • They talked through dinner, inconsequentially.†   (source)
  • To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust."†   (source)
  • No one wants to be inconsequential.†   (source)
  • The other injuries were serious but inconsequential; he could manage those.†   (source)
  • And to a High Priestess and vampyre he, like most humans, is completely inconsequential?†   (source)
  • He could engross himself in an inconsequential task for hours without growing restless or bored, as oblivious to fatigue as the stump of a tree, and almost as taciturn.†   (source)
  • Macon laughed dismissively, as if we were talking about something completely inconsequential.†   (source)
  • One never doubted for a moment that it was Ferraro's destiny to be a barber; his instincts were perfect; his baldness was inconsequential.†   (source)
  • What happened to these two was inconsequential.†   (source)
  • I forced myself to concentrate on the logic problems, but somehow they seemed inconsequential to me.†   (source)
  • Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things.†   (source)
  • They were tiny things, inconsequential things.†   (source)
  • The men in Swayne's compound were either soldiers or ex-soldiers still under military authority; they would try to avoid reprimands, especially over the inconsequential.†   (source)
  • We hosted six other guests, but they were inconsequential to the telling of this story.†   (source)
  • In a brief, pleasant, inconsequential exchange, the Comte de Vergennes explained that the new American commissioner spoke no French, to which the young monarch responded, "Pas un mot!"†   (source)
  • He is too young, and I am too old, and there is the not inconsequential fact that I cut off his hand.†   (source)
  • The dark gray eyes were direct and disturbing, as if they cut through things, throwing the inconsequential out of the way.†   (source)
  • Stop signs, streetlights, flower gardens, were inconsequential.†   (source)
  • For the most part, I was aloof to this inconsequential suffering.†   (source)
  • And though I never thought I would desire such a set of sensations for myself, in the days and weeks after she was gone from my house, in those cycles that seemed to pass like fast-turning epochs, as if I were some inconsequential rock hurtling past the warm blue sphere of human time and history, yet unseen and unknown, I finally wished I might remain in the sickness I was developing when I was sure Sunny was about to be a mother.†   (source)
  • In Rome they would have seemed larger, but at two thousand meters in the open air they were as inconsequential as the cows in the upper pastures, rendered invisible by the distance.†   (source)
  • Maybe her minor little inconsequential glitches—her "brain jumping the track," as she thought of it—would have disappeared on their own.†   (source)
  • —The King won't be coming today, so your tardiness is inconsequential.†   (source)
  • These seemingly inconsequential details—the names, the places, the schools she had attended, the layout of her family's apartment in Paris, the trips they had taken to the Alps and the sea—formed the core of Natalie's curriculum during her final days at the farm in Nahalal.†   (source)
  • Possibly, he said, just possibly a split second's distress—discomfort rather—but as brief and as inconsequential as a hiccup.†   (source)
  • There were the events that meant nothing to him, the bull riding, the calf roping, the steer wrestling, the trick riding, sometimes the inconsequentials of a horse show.†   (source)
  • Black people were considered unworthy and inconsequential.†   (source)
  • The first time, one afternoon, after some inconsequential talk from him about tennis and the shoes I had asked for, I drove to his flat and blew my horn.†   (source)
  • It seems to me to raise something dirty, unimportant, inconsequential, to a dignity that does not belong to it.†   (source)
  • Around us, voices sounded as they always did everywhere, in a house of death, soft and inconsequential, and tidily assertive.†   (source)
  • She was expected to speak of inconsequential things as the gloom of the evening descended.   (source)
  • He recounted everything that he could recall, down to the minutest and most inconsequential observation, proud of the information that he had gathered.   (source)
  • Then he thinks, inconsequentially, about taking off his shoes and wading into the lake.†   (source)
  • Soon all physical discomforts would be inconsequential.†   (source)
  • around the completion of endless tiny, inconsequential projects.†   (source)
  • A few months earlier, it might have disgusted me; it was inconsequential now.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh had begun his practice with the blood of inconsequential animals.†   (source)
  • I try to grab hold but she's as inconsequential as air.†   (source)
  • The man was nothing: a tiny, inconsequential nothing.†   (source)
  • The fact that it 'll take my life is really inconsequential.†   (source)
  • From Gabby's spot on the boat, they looked small and inconsequential as they drifted over the water.†   (source)
  • And then one tiny, inconsequential thing had gone wrong.†   (source)
  • The silly, inconsequential hurt was incredibly potent.†   (source)
  • So many inconsequential things that a person might not consider significant, but they can be.†   (source)
  • That would make Victoria's returning for you seem like such an inconsequential matter in comparison?†   (source)
  • NYR; the numbers following were 768, but for the moment they were inconsequential.†   (source)
  • He looked thin, inconsequential, and fragile as he moved into the dangerous land between them.†   (source)
  • If Lila wouldn't prosecute, any link to me was now inconsequential.†   (source)
  • But he often interrupted with the words, "That's inconsequential."†   (source)
  • It's not the Champs-Elysées, but neither is it inconsequential.†   (source)
  • On this night I was adding my small inconsequential history to the history of the ring.†   (source)
  • I tried to distract him with inconsequentials.†   (source)
  • The money's secondary-not inconsequential, but getting out comes first.†   (source)
  • They chat idly for a while in hushed voices of small, inconsequential things, one's breath warming the other's face.†   (source)
  • Whether you always agree is inconsequential, but you must take care of one another, must rely upon one another in all things.†   (source)
  • She and I had met at a conference in London a few years back and had had a pleasant, weekend-long thing that we'd mutually kept inconsequential, though we had remained in touch and seen each other socially on occasion.†   (source)
  • After some inconsequential conversation Phaedrus stumbled, hesitated and excused himself, then went back to the mountains.†   (source)
  • Back then, it seemed inconsequential.†   (source)
  • Being alone with her on those weekend getaways was like curling up into a soft cloud, and, for a couple of days, everything that had ever troubled me fell away, inconsequentially, a thousand miles below.†   (source)
  • Remaining on deposit in the Gemeinschaft Bank were 1,400,000 Swiss francs, a not inconsequential sum by any standard.†   (source)
  • The regular Jeremy would have forgotten all about it already, shrugging the whole thing off as inconsequential.†   (source)
  • Your pride is inconsequential.†   (source)
  • Ian and Doc murmured in quiet voices about inconsequential things, mostly Ian catching Doc up on what was going on in the caves.†   (source)
  • The war between the Varden and the Empire seemed inconsequential when compared with the true size of the world, and he thought how petty were most of the hurts and concerns that bedeviled people, when looked at from on high.†   (source)
  • It was Lorenz's job to pare it down to one page for the file and to this effect he would at times bark angrily, "That's inconsequential, just the facts."†   (source)
  • She appeared to him suddenly as some inconsequential presence that had to be dealt with at the moment.†   (source)
  • The big screen twisted into an inconsequential spark of light, and we could already smell the smoke— Burning a house with women in it.†   (source)
  • The fact that I had no idea what he looked like, or what my mother looked like, was inconsequential to this fantasy.†   (source)
  • Though war might make a soldier inconsequential, a soldier in turn could delight that they would always put war in its place.†   (source)
  • At first Valdes emotion was one of contempt—the starlings' dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential—but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.†   (source)
  • The accident was simple to explain and was similar to many accidents in that a series of isolated and seemingly inconsequential mistakes somehow came together and exploded in the most horrific of ways.†   (source)
  • But he held out hope that the man would forget it, that it had been inconsequential, that his terrible joke would be seen as that and nothing more.†   (source)
  • 'But the basic reason, Mr Bourne, is that I'm rather tired of being Edward Newington McAllister, maybe a brilliant but surely an inconsequential analyst.†   (source)
  • And how could she, when she was used to casual, inconsequential compliments from men, deal with one that seemed so serious?†   (source)
  • They seem as inconsequential as dust, two shimmers of men, and when they step forward into a stream of moonlight, I could swear I see their bones glowing beneath their skin.†   (source)
  • She could quote poetry more readily than could John Adams, and over a lifetime would quote her favorites again and again in correspondence, often making small, inconsequential mistakes, an indication that rather than looking passages up, she was quoting from memory.†   (source)
  • Saphira spiraled upward above the twinkling camp until it was an inconsequential patch of light dwarfed by the dark landscape that surrounded it.†   (source)
  • No matter what a dragon she was, Mrs. Lincoln was Link's dragon, and it must have been hard to see her tossed aside like a piece of inconsequential human trash.†   (source)
  • A million men die attacking and defending a piece of ground that was inconsequential before the war and will be inconsequential afterward.†   (source)
  • It was as if the centuries had sifted the family's qualities through a fine mesh, had discarded the irrelevant, the inconsequential, the weak, and had let nothing through except pure talent; as if chance, for once, had achieved an entity devoid of the accidental.†   (source)
  • For a moment, she considered chasing the sparrow but then decided it was not worth bothering herself over such an inconsequential speck of bones and feathers.†   (source)
  • Rape 1, Sodomy 1, etc. How he twisted my breasts or shoved his fist up inside me, my virginity: inconsequential.†   (source)
  • He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so pure and strong that it was capable of reordering the universe.†   (source)
  • And with the first sob came an absolute shattering, the death of my own small inconsequential civilization on that shower room floor.†   (source)
  • I knew he'd begun with others, but I couldn't remember the inconsequential prelude, especially not while my brain was so clouded with exhaustion.†   (source)
  • Since he and Orik had arrived in Tronjheim, three days ago, the thirteen chiefs of the dwarf clans had done nothing but argue about issues that Eragon considered inconsequential, such as which clans had the right to graze their flocks in certain disputed pastures.†   (source)
  • Medusa had asked a minor favor of the celebrated Gates, an inconsequential, perfectly acceptable staff appointment on an ad hoc government-oriented commission, and he had not even answered their phone calls!†   (source)
  • Each time he put a banknote into someone's hand he thought of it not as the pair of shoes, fountain pen, or two years' subscription he would have to do without, but as an inconsequential sum that he was placing on a wager of unprecedented returns, even if he doubted it would go his way.†   (source)
  • On those walks we talked about Tradd and Commerce, God, and politics, as well as the silliest, most fatuous, most inconsequential things.†   (source)
  • They quelled that small inconsequential revolt with ease as they dispersed us into smaller groups, shivering along the gallery.†   (source)
  • In conversation mysterious and deep, in the crackling, hissing, seemingly inconsequential sounds of the foam, waves, and wind, the stars were talking to the enraptured sea, and, as with many of its greatest secrets, nature entrusted knowledge of this to whoever would not be believed or who could not speak.†   (source)
  • I felt that ancient inconsequentiality of being a male as I witnessed the rosy elaboration of her body.†   (source)
  • For each and every stroke, and for each of the lovely thunderclaps in the delirious music above, Alessandro heard ever-so-faintly another music that underlay it all, beyond which was no other, and that was perfectly appropriate both to the elated dancing in the ballroom and his torment in the cellar, because it tied them together and made them equally inconsequential.†   (source)
  • Since it is rather inconsequential whether a public school teacher agrees with a dictum passed down from his superintendent or not, my only recourse is to answer you without regard to our positions.†   (source)
  • She looked up, very bright-eyed and trying to talk inconsequentially.†   (source)
  • It's only an inconsequential matter of the building's appearance.†   (source)
  • She sat down and tried to talk of inconsequential things, but the thoughts of Tara and a possible defeat by the Yankees prodded cruelly.†   (source)
  • She seemed to find him suitable as an inconsequential companion for an occasional, inconsequential evening.†   (source)
  • She spoke in that fainting whisper, her tone light, inconsequential, like that of one speaking to an unpredictable child or a maniac: soothing, cajoling: "You wait, now.†   (source)
  • And Dominique realized that what she saw in his face, what made it the face of a god to her, was not seen by others; that it could leave them indifferent; that what she had thought to be the most obvious, inconsequential remark was, instead, a confession of something within her, some quality not shared by others.†   (source)
  • Just a sop to keep us quiet if we care to waste our time playing with the inconsequentials of life, while you're making money.†   (source)
  • I felt so injured by the inconsequential nature of this charge, that it gave me courage to be grave.†   (source)
  • For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction.†   (source)
  • To be sure, there was quite sufficient tension, strain, and even silent hostility among them; and we ourselves are amazed that our inconsequential hero managed to keep the group together.†   (source)
  • …as I say, it is terrible to realize how little attention is given to this evil right here in our midst and on our very doorstep, as it were—it's a shame and a disgrace that the Congress of these United States spends all its time talking about inconsequential financial matters that ought to be left to the Treasury Department, as I understand it, instead of arising in their might and passing a law that any one admitting he is a Mormon shall simply be deported and as it were kicked out of…†   (source)
  • Their words were silly and inconsequential, heard one by one, yet taken together they were as wise and important as the tides or the sounding wind.†   (source)
  • "Well, yes, sir," answered Clyde, a little dubiously, for he was still convinced that the form of religious work his father essayed was of all forms the poorest and most inconsequential socially.†   (source)
  • I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he had listened with the greatest concentration of attention.†   (source)
  • She stood in her room pondering this new problem as Clyde arrived, his Christmas package under his arm, but still fixed in his determination to modify his present relationship with Roberta, if he could—yet, at the same time anxious to put as inconsequential a face on the proceeding as possible.†   (source)
  • Then suddenly, and to them somewhat inconsequentially, yet movingly and dramatically, exclaiming: "The Lord will not desert me.†   (source)
  • The pale, gray, childish, aged, melancholy, yet often simply cheerful, and sometimes delicately intelligent aspect of Clifford, peering from behind the faded crimson of the curtain,—watching the monotony of every-day occurrences with a kind of inconsequential interest and earnestness, and, at every petty throb of his sensibility, turning for sympathy to the eyes of the bright young girl!†   (source)
  • I murmured something inconsequential and looked around the hall.†   (source)
  • We chatted inconsequentially for a little, both listening with one ear to the confrontation going on beyond the window, until Ian hitched forward, carefully settling his artificial limb under him before rising.†   (source)
  • For the rest, there was only a fugitive and inconsequential literature—an almost useless mass of notes and essays, chiefly by the minor sort of pedagogues, seldom illuminating, save in small details, and often incredibly ignorant and inaccurate.†   (source)
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