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  • But when I'd seen those courses in the catalog, and read their titles aloud, I had felt something infinite, and I wanted a taste of that infinity.†   (source)
  • The old woman sometimes made tea or gave Liesel some soup that was infinitely better than Mama's.†   (source)
  • What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world!†   (source)
  • Esperanza reached for Miguel's hand and found it, and even though her mind was soaring to infinite possibilities, his touch held her heart to the earth.†   (source)
  • When they stood in the doorway and looked out, they saw no new city at all, but something infinitely stranger: a land vast and spacious beyond any of their dreams, filled with air that seemed to move, and lit by a shining silver circle hanging in an immense black sky.†   (source)
  • Cinna dismisses the team and has me move around in the dress and shoes, which are infinitely more manageable than Effie's.†   (source)
  • "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."†   (source)
  • He had always enjoyed excellent recall, but on the raft, his memory became infinitely more nimble, reaching back further, offering detail that had once escaped him.†   (source)
  • In other habitats, the rim of sky above the horizontal is broken or obscured; here, together with the overhead portion, it is infinitely vaster than that of rolling countryside and forest lands…….†   (source)
  • Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones.†   (source)
  • It widened and seemed to pause, suggesting tranquil bovine picnics: slow chewing and thoughtful contemplation of the infinite.†   (source)
  • Your legacy from him is the realm of infinite speculation.†   (source)
  • Edgar turned for one last look at the desiccated barn, then clapped his leg and they ducked into the gap between two infinitely receding rows of sunflower stalks.†   (source)
  • Thus I started sixth grade with my new, easy name and life became infinitely simpler.†   (source)
  • An infinitely thin line.†   (source)
  • No matter how many people die here, infinitely more have died under the thumbs of dictators and secret police in the past.†   (source)
  • This had been Lenin's greatest innovation: a line that, like the Proletariat itself, was universal and infinite.†   (source)
  • But no man is infinite.†   (source)
  • It was also very superficial: The clerkship process is infinitely more complex.†   (source)
  • With infinite tenderness, he brushed a lock of hair from her face.†   (source)
  • The ability to save my place at any time basically gave me infinite lives.†   (source)
  • The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.†   (source)
  • There were, of course, an infinite number of Rose Lines because every point on the globe could have a longitude drawn through it connecting north and south poles.†   (source)
  • She thought we were infinitely more talented than anyone like Tessa, and it irked her to no end that she had fame and money when we didn't for doing essentially the same thing.†   (source)
  • I am infinitely older than you, lad.†   (source)
  • I do not expect any of you to See when first you peer into the Orb's infinite depths.†   (source)
  • They were infinitely weary.†   (source)
  • "The fact is," Sticky said in a defeated tone, "there are an infinite number of things that we aren't."†   (source)
  • She gave me her smile of infinite kindness and understanding, the smile I had seen her aim at so many other needy souls, and in that moment I hated her.†   (source)
  • Yes, my friend, the possibilities for mortification were infinite.†   (source)
  • And there are an infinite number of things which didn't happen at that time and that place.†   (source)
  • All you have to remember is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodic decimal fraction.†   (source)
  • Weighing it against the alternative, that I planned to ask a colored woman for help, saying she'd already agreed to it seemed infinitely more attractive.†   (source)
  • All these neighbors, close enough to know our business, but too infinitely far from us to feel a particle of what we were feeling, themselves feeling animated, more than anything, by the pleasures of curiosity.†   (source)
  • What made Mr. Merrill infinitely more attractive was that he was full of doubt; he expressed our doubt in the most eloquent and sympathetic ways.†   (source)
  • Gods with infinite memories visited girl children on women who needed to be punished for sins committed in other incarnations.†   (source)
  • It is only movement and love; it is the living infinite.†   (source)
  • Now I beg forgiveness from the infinite sea of upturned faces.†   (source)
  • All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way—if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.†   (source)
  • The future had been full of infinite possibilities.†   (source)
  • Ugliness, on the other hand, had infinite variation.†   (source)
  • It seemed to come from every crack in the pavement, every pothole in the street, every crevice in the time-battered buildings: a composition on infinite repeat, featuring lyrics Redd had written herself, which sang her praises as Wonderland's savior.†   (source)
  • With a nearly infinite supply of vitamins, all I need are calories of any kind to survive.†   (source)
  • "She didn't even know my name, Mom," Lindsey whined, as our mother buttoned up the infinite number of round buttons on Lindsey's dress coat.†   (source)
  • "The composition of the human species is infinitely more diverse than most humans suspect," she began.†   (source)
  • The view induces the opposite of vertigo, a lurching feeling inspired not by gravity's pull to earth, but by the infinite reaches of heaven.†   (source)
  • "We've got something that's infinitely better than weapons."†   (source)
  • Its rise is infinite: any number on the y axis starting at zero and going on forever.†   (source)
  • He stroked his luxuriant white beard, infinitely sad, infinitely weary.†   (source)
  • Her betrayal is infinitely more painful.†   (source)
  • Then gradually the almost infinite size of this water forced itself on his attention.†   (source)
  • The air was cool on his skin, almost crisp, and the sky was a haze of different colors: black directly above him like a mountain peak, then blues of infinite range, becoming lighter until it met the horizon, where gray took its place.†   (source)
  • He almost thought he heard the motion of her hands as she walked, and the infinitely small sound now, the white stir of her face turning when she discovered she was a moment away from a man who stood in the middle of the pavement waiting.†   (source)
  • Prologue The estimate of the possible weight of HeLa cells comes from Leonard Hayflick, who calculated the greatest possible weight potential of a normal human cell strain as 20 million metric tons and says HeLa's potential would be "infinitely greater" since it's not bound by the Hayflick limit.†   (source)
  • We've been picked up by a ship powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive!†   (source)
  • This is the best evidence yet that the adults have infinite patience, but also that their brains have turned to mush (some of them, I mean, since I wouldn't want to insult anyone).†   (source)
  • When you get into a real battle you won't have the luxury of an infinite supply of computer-generated fighters.†   (source)
  • And that was it: infinite loop; no alt-tab out.†   (source)
  • The priests tell us all the time that God's mercy is infinite but how can any priest give absolution to someone like me who delivers telegrams and winds up in a state of excitement on a green sofa with a girl dying of the galloping consumption.†   (source)
  • He heard her prayers, and in his infinite compassion he instead removed from her the curse of deliria, with which all humans had been burdened as punishment for the original sin of Eve and Adam.†   (source)
  • He rolled onto his back and watched the infinite planes cross the sky.†   (source)
  • Mama says the Lord knows all, and that He in His infinite wisdom knows the reason for all things.†   (source)
  • infinite adj. 1.†   (source)
  • It was soft and infinitely sly.†   (source)
  • Infinite sadness resonated in his voice.†   (source)
  • I suppose they must have thought our wealth was infinite.†   (source)
  • It is fiercely agile in the sky, dipping and spinning and diving with ease, its wings infinitely versatile.†   (source)
  • And then, to untangle each character, her mother took side routes to her past, going into excruciating detail over the infinite meanings of Chinese words: "Secret not just mean cannot say.†   (source)
  • I stared straight ahead as if ! could forget that there was only a seemingly infinite expanse of air under those swaying, creaking strands of vegetable matter.†   (source)
  • He didn't say anything; he watched my face warily as the pain that had nothing to do with broken bones, pain that was infinitely worse, threatened to crush me.†   (source)
  • I was learning even the smallest push could bring a swelling, blue-black spot, the body infinitely more dramatic than it needed to be.†   (source)
  • That the tall one came equipped with a husband and daughter made the situation infinitely more appealing.†   (source)
  • It was when it showed up, and even now this virus that can mutate in infinite ways to thwart nearly any treatment eludes our efforts to corral it.†   (source)
  • Most observers assumed he was still involved, and some insisted that his fingerprints, his knack for solutions global and elegant and infinitely scalable, were on every major Circle innovation.†   (source)
  • What to us was a trip through the country, to her was a feast of clouds and light and infinite blue distances.†   (source)
  • We gods are capable of infinite marvels.†   (source)
  • She backs away and the adhesive separates from the fibers, stretching out into long, infinitely thin strands, like hot mozzarella.†   (source)
  • His father nodding, listening with infinite patience, as though each person in line mattered to him like family.†   (source)
  • I had been generous with the power and madness at my disposal, allowing my subject to be associated with an infinitely lesser figure, a fellow who sat in La-Z-Boy chairs and shot out TVs.†   (source)
  • But it's never enough for all the wonderful things that can be bought in this infinitely wide world of yours.†   (source)
  • The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber.†   (source)
  • Infinitely.†   (source)
  • It looked like the sort of hallway she sometimes found herself racing down in nightmares, shadowy and infinite.†   (source)
  • Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding.†   (source)
  • Two decades later, when I got my PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, I thought that made me infinitely qualified to do anything, so I dashed off my letters of application to Walt Disney Imagineering.†   (source)
  • A fractal is almost infinitely complex.†   (source)
  • So few options, and yet an infinite number of variations.†   (source)
  • It's infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you.†   (source)
  • My dad was a man of infinite varieties of bitterness, rage, distaste.†   (source)
  • But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.†   (source)
  • While Confinement would be brutal for anyone, Bellamy knew that it'd be infinitely worse for 0.†   (source)
  • By uttering the words, by being there, she made herself infinitely worth their fighting.†   (source)
  • The questions he had asked about infinite hypotheses hadn't been of interest to science because they weren't scientific questions.†   (source)
  • Children serve as impossible-to-ignore, in-your-face timepieces, marking the relentless march of one's life through what otherwise might seem an infinite sea of minutes, hours, days, and years.†   (source)
  • The snowfall, which he witnessed out of the corners of his eyes—furious, wind-whipped flakes against the windows—struck him as infinitely beautiful.†   (source)
  • So you turn around and see the horse itself—which of course is infinitely more beautiful and sharper in outline than the blurred "horse-shadow."†   (source)
  • When she bathed the little Fisher girl, it was in a porcelain tub with silvery taps running infinite quantities of hot, clear water.†   (source)
  • He was always saying how his mother said, "What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security," and, "What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from," until it made me tired.†   (source)
  • With infinite patience the clerk folded the straps just so, located each purse at the center of the brown parcel paper he painstakingly tore from the roll, and commenced creasing the edges.†   (source)
  • It appears to be a great conglomeration of soft rimmed cups of infinitely varied sizes, together with a wheel and a dial and a lever, and what it does is beyond me.†   (source)
  • Somehow, Alex had assumed that time was infinite, that Josie would always be there waiting.†   (source)
  • The veins in the nose were thickening and darkening; and, sometimes, as now, when Lorenzo looked straight before him, the eyes were more baffled and infinitely lonelier than those of a child.†   (source)
  • This has been a life infinitely more difficult than serving a prison sentence.†   (source)
  • It's a strange silence, infinitely small, infinitely large, and I'm locked inside it, pacing, circling the question.†   (source)
  • "My infinite pleasure," he said seriously, and then he stood up to go.†   (source)
  • The booms that came next were infinitely worse—the thundering of something heavy falling and the resounding crack of metal snapping.†   (source)
  • The words came up through the clear blue air, infinitely diminished and attenuated, like some insect cry.†   (source)
  • I felt infinitely better.†   (source)
  • There is an almost infinite pantheon with a deity for each spring and river, mountain and forest, but there is a higher court of more powerful gods ruled by Hephestia, goddess of fire and lightning.†   (source)
  • It had been as simple as that—and infinitely more complex, the marriage of two intelligent people who had over fifteen years learned each other's foibles and strengths and grown ever closer.†   (source)
  • But the thought of the complications that might arise from an insult to Lorena had left Newt closely acquainted with the mental perils of love long before he had had an opportunity to sample any of its pleasures except the infinite pleasure of contemplation.†   (source)
  • No matter how much gold may sell for, a hymen is infinitely more valuable.†   (source)
  • In fact, they had been made infinitely harder.†   (source)
  • "I asked Almighty Allah to delay the snow until you were done," he said, grinning, "and in his infinite wisdom he did.†   (source)
  • The island is a trivial scab barely cresting the infinite Pacific, its eight square miles only about a third the mass of Manhattan Island.†   (source)
  • It's true that they don't have a sense of smell, but angels, in their infinite love for the Living, go around smelling everything in emulation.†   (source)
  • We got to do the infinitely cool circle thing again, but by that point I was desensitized to both my dread and the whispers that had already begun to follow me.†   (source)
  • But outside, even in the backyard, there is an infinitely unpredictable, unknown, and often dangerous world.†   (source)
  • But then the vampire smiled almost wistfully, and the smooth white substance of his face moved with the infinitely flexible but minimal lines of a cartoon.†   (source)
  • She stayed until the doctor left, putting on his black jacket with a gesture of infinite sadness.†   (source)
  • There was a time of tension then, a time of waiting with nothing to hear and nothing to see and nothing to do but wait as the antiaircraft guns below took aim and made ready to knock them all sprawling into infinite sleep if they could.†   (source)
  • Infinitely.†   (source)
  • Luckily, I am an infinitely patient vampire.†   (source)
  • That's why one banned book in your former country means infinitely more than the billions of words spewed out by our universities.†   (source)
  • Yes, I have infinite faith in the craft of surgery, but no surgeon can heal the kind of wound that divides two brothers.†   (source)
  • But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative.†   (source)
  • Neither of them seemed at all surprised to hear my voice—I had the feeling they were surprised they hadn't heard it sooner—and from that point on the three of us seesawed back and forth through the infinite intricacies of the Talmud.†   (source)
  • Tonight he was the bride, and his bridegroom, Justin, who was also Elyon, had taken him back into the lake of infinite waters.†   (source)
  • "Only God can make something infinite and eternal," Angel said very solemnly.†   (source)
  • A Musician of Many Cultures YO-YO MA I BELIEVE IN THE INFINITE VARIETY OF human expression.†   (source)
  • I seized it with sudden panic, as though something infinitely precious had almost been lost to me.†   (source)
  • Such an action will produce a reaction; the number of reactions is infinite but the number of probable reactions is manageably small.†   (source)
  • We are fighting for the subjection, the unconditional submission of a country infinitely more extended than our own, of which every day increases the wealth, the natural strength, the population.†   (source)
  • His files, of course, would be infinitely preferable.†   (source)
  • What Fermat had thus done, by an academic tweak, was to transform a formula which had an infinite number of perfect solutions into a blind alley that had no solution at all.†   (source)
  • Pray to God that in His infinite mercy He will save your miserable souls.†   (source)
  • She stood there and looked out across the vast, rolling plains of wind-flattened grass that stretched away from this sorrowful place to a horizon where sorrow was infinite.†   (source)
  • For her, they were a kind of poetry that connected her to larger worlds, worlds alive and infinite.†   (source)
  • The gray-green chop seemed to be an infinite array of turning gears in a vast mechanism, and across it, bright silver flickers of sunlight jittered like electric current across a power grid.†   (source)
  • He half smiled, then let it go as if infinitely weary, sick of Time.†   (source)
  • My father had been heard to sum up his opinion by declaring that if Angus had any principles they were of such infinite width as to be a menace to the rectitude of the neighbourhood; to which Angus was reputed to have replied that Joseph Strorm was a flinty-souled pedant, and bigoted well beyond reason.†   (source)
  • For miles around, we were the only things in the infinite, wide-open, clear blue sky.†   (source)
  • A moment later, Max was gazing at an enormous sea creature, its form outlined against the infinite space beyond.†   (source)
  • I remember thinking long ago, 'We're loved infinitely for however little bit of time we have.'†   (source)
  • The Hummer is just one in a sea of empty cars, the path just a random pattern of gaps among an infinite maze.†   (source)
  • He raised his head; she was startled to see that his face had a look of infinite weariness.†   (source)
  • They had learned about the restaurant light by eating the worms from the other terrarium, like learning French by eating french fries, except infinitely grosser.†   (source)
  • It was infinitely easier to look at him, she discovered, when those eyes weren't focused on her.†   (source)
  • That's because the computer makes it infinitely easier to track patterns of English usage and catalogue them for use as reference material.†   (source)
  • " Without batting an eye I quoted from the Shorter Catechism in my best Sunday school voice: " 'God is a Spirit, Infinite, Eternal and Unchangeable.'†   (source)
  • From the Northwest Tip to the Romantic Keys, You'll Find Infinite Variety.†   (source)
  • Some were so diffident and fearful that in their fragile reticence often lived the truest, most infinitely prized beauty.†   (source)
  • —THICH NHAT HANH Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.†   (source)
  • Infinite waters cohabit with flotsam on this side of the breakwater and the luxury liners and Maldive fishing vessels steam out to erase calm sea.†   (source)
  • Would it not be, like living one's life over again, infinitely painful and dissonant?†   (source)
  • I am the more thankful to her for all her infinite bounty to such a poor mortal wretch as I. For you must know, Sirs, I am a man under most strange afflictions, and none but the Queen's grace would have had patience with me.†   (source)
  • Things were infinitely worse because of Denmark and all his plots and plans for freedom.†   (source)
  • As for his age, let her think he is stupid, it is infinitely preferable to whatever else she might discover about him.†   (source)
  • I slid it up with infinite care.†   (source)
  • The old woman looks infinitely relieved.†   (source)
  • However, this evil is infinitely less likely to happen to us if we are united than if we are disunited.†   (source)
  • Enormous storage and something close to infinite parallel processing.†   (source)
  • I do know, however, that a series of properly conducted wolf-naps is infinitely more refreshing than the unconscious coma of seven or eight hours' duration which represents the human answer to the need for rest.†   (source)
  • She wanted to prowl those warm close places until she discovered the end because at that time she had not yet seen that the horizon was an illusion and the plains extended infinitely; and up until that final evening, she had found no limit.†   (source)
  • A waste among infinitely wider wastes.†   (source)
  • Perhaps there are infinite angels; perhaps I see two angels in their consecutive moments.†   (source)
  • In the southwest, in the direction of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota, another unnatural sun was born, much larger and infinitely fiercer than the sun in the east.†   (source)
  • The students have better manners, more learning, more courtesy and infinitely more understanding.†   (source)
  • There was no point in developing rockets when the Overlords had Infinitely superior means of propulsion, based on principles of which they had never given any hint.†   (source)
  • A sullen Slavic pronouncement, infinitely boring.†   (source)
  • It hung and moved with majesty in folds like an infinite traveler upstage in an infinite theater.†   (source)
  • There are, however, those among them who voice the dreamsong with particular subtlety and profundity, something like music, yet not, drawn from that timeless place in themselves where perhaps they look upon the infinite, then phrase it for their fellows.†   (source)
  • I walked her down the infinite boredom of Constitution Avenue and into the National Gallery and lectured her about Rembrandt and Van Gogh, of whom I knew almost nothing.†   (source)
  • But it took him a long while for this, and the past seemed to him as if it had been covered by a veil, infinitely distant, infinitely far away, infinitely meaningless.†   (source)
  • Slowly, with infinite care, my palms reached up along the wall… up, up higher.†   (source)
  • With infinite weariness, she nodded in a pathetic gesture of capitulation.†   (source)
  • When the hot, grimy train left them at the station, Lara, overwhelmed by the infinite silence and heady fragrance of the countryside, and speechless with emotion, was allowed to walk alone from the railroad station to the estate.†   (source)
  • And it was respect he needed, infinitely more than love.†   (source)
  • After all, if an infinite number of monkeys start playing with an infinite number of typewriters, one of them will write a play of Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • All I wanted was a little heart-toheart talk concerning the infinite sorrow of life.†   (source)
  • Strangely enough, although he had the appearance, especially in his later days, of a fanatic, he was a man of infinite charm and personality.†   (source)
  • Yet the number of faces seemed to Clytie almost infinite.†   (source)
  • It had to be sprung with infinite caution.†   (source)
  • Both Buddha and Lao Tzu are poets, one listening to the rhythm of infinite sorrow, one to the rhythm of infinite joy.   (source)
  • Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father.   (source)
  • When he entered, she looked at him, and an expression of infinite joy came over her.   (source)
    infinite = unlimited; without boundaries
  • He possessed infinite courage,   (source)
  • The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.   (source)
    infinite = very large number
  • On the contrary, they were merely casual events in a crowded summer, and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs.   (source)
    infinitely = much, much
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