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  • But, Joss Bont, I beg you to be proportionate.†   (source)
  • His physical development proceeds at an accelerated rate as well, and by the time he is four, he stands as tall and is as proportionately developed as the average seven-year-old.†   (source)
  • It was smaller, more proportionate.†   (source)
  • Mexicans, he argues, do not assimilate and become truly American, because they do not embrace American values and ideals: they do not share the work ethic inherited from America's Anglo-Protestant culture; they do not have the same hunger for education; proportionately fewer go to college; fewer have incomes above $50,000 a year; fewer hold managerial positions.†   (source)
  • But in other respects the sample is not representative in the sense that a modern Gallup Poll or survey questionnaire is designed to represent proportionately all the relevant groups in a given population.†   (source)
  • The means should be proportionate to the end; the persons charged with attaining the end should possess the means for attaining it.†   (source)
  • My analyst—Dr. Pulvermacher—said that the repressiveness of a society in general is directly proportionate to its harsh repression of sexual language.†   (source)
  • Their response were appropriate and proportionate.
  • Each nation then would have a vote in administration roughly proportionate to its contributions.
  • proportionate representation of a minority group
  • The force must be proportionate to the size of the problem.†   (source)
  • ] The people will elect the House of Representatives and will be represented proportionately.†   (source)
  • If less is required from the States, they will be proportionately less able to answer the demand.†   (source)
  • She had grown tall quickly and her body had not filled out proportionately to her height.†   (source)
  • They are proportionately underrepresented in my sample, and some of those whose letters I have read were not particularly ideological.†   (source)
  • Power Proportionate to Objective†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if a State had the men and money, it would increase its military spending proportionately.†   (source)
  • When they didn't pay, the least delinquent States were tempted not to pay, feeling that they shouldn't pay proportionately more than other States in the Union.†   (source)
  • At the present moment, as the full impact of the war draws nearer and his worldly hopes take a proportionately lower place in his mind, full of his defence work, full of the girl, forced to attend to his neighbours more than he has ever done before and liking it more than he expected, "taken out of himself" as the humans say, and daily increasing in conscious dependence on the Enemy, he will almost certainly be lost to us if he is killed tonight.†   (source)
  • The deeds of the hero in the second part of his personal cycle will be proportionate to the depth of his descent during the first.†   (source)
  • Proportionately as the day became nearer, the two boys drifted apart—for Kay did not care to associate with the Wart any longer on the same terms, because he would need to be more dignified as a knight, and could not afford to have his squire on intimate terms with him.†   (source)
  • 'The big doorway opened into a proportionately great hall hung with brown.†   (source)
  • Amory was proportionately less deceived.†   (source)
  • She laughed, answering: "Yes; it is not necessary to get far off in order to see us proportionately.†   (source)
  • I had not yet reduced him to quite so vulgar a lie, and I felt proportionately ashamed.†   (source)
  • If you err wilfully, I shall devise a proportionate punishment.†   (source)
  • Where these minds are low and gross, the area of that "appearance" is proportionately widened.†   (source)
  • But who is to define what is proportionate?†   (source)
  • 'Maybe so, but I am sanguine, and did expect,' said Nicholas, 'and am proportionately disappointed.'†   (source)
  • This move was unexpected, and proportionately disconcerting.†   (source)
  • The sight filled Lily with such surprise that she felt that Bertha, at least, must read its meaning in her look, and she was proportionately disconcerted by the blankness of the look returned.†   (source)
  • There was, alas, a difficulty about that: I would have thanked him with all my soul had I not had in a proportionate measure this conviction of the secret of my pupils.†   (source)
  • Opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general confluence, and the river was proportionately voluminous and deep.†   (source)
  • Inchcape Jones, a little rested now under Sondelius's padded bullying and able to slip into a sane routine, drove Martin to the village of Carib, which, because of its pest of infected ground squirrels, was proportionately worse smitten than Blackwater.†   (source)
  • But the alarm had been great; and proportionately great was the indignation when it was gathered from Mrs. Mingott's fragmentary phrases that Regina Beaufort had come to ask her—incredible effrontery!†   (source)
  • Such an atmosphere could not incite in him the cravings of a boy of eighteen, but in so far as they were excited, the lack of hope made them proportionately bitter.†   (source)
  • She felt the accuracy with which he caught her, exactly at the right moment, and the exactly proportionate strength of his thrust, and she was afraid.†   (source)
  • Whenever she had been away for any length of time, Swann would feel that he was beginning to detach himself from her, but, as though this moral distance were proportionate to the physical distance between them, whenever he heard that Odette had returned to Paris, he could not rest without seeing her.†   (source)
  • And his girth was proportionate.†   (source)
  • Kells had been rapidly gaining strength since the extraction of the bullet, and it was evident that his interest was growing proportionately.†   (source)
  • The dullest specimen of humanity, when drawn by desire toward evil, is recalled by a sense of right, which is proportionate in power and strength to his evil tendency.†   (source)
  • As Mrs. Archer remarked, the Roman punch made all the difference; not in itself but by its manifold implications—since it signified either canvas-backs or terrapin, two soups, a hot and a cold sweet, full decolletage with short sleeves, and guests of a proportionate importance.†   (source)
  • The object of the association was to provide comfortable lodgings, with a reading-room and other modest distractions, where young women of the class employed in down town offices might find a home when out of work, or in need of rest, and the first year's financial report showed so deplorably small a balance that Miss Farish, who was convinced of the urgency of the work, felt proportionately discouraged by the small amount of interest it aroused.†   (source)
  • The good news spread quickly through the house, and with proportionate speed through the neighbourhood.†   (source)
  • I pray thou take no offense at the address, seeing it is one of love and gratitude, and an admission that thou art most fortunate among men; seeing, also, that thy ears are as they were derived from thy mother, only proportionate to thy matured condition.†   (source)
  • 'Some of these build heaps or nests, four or six feet high and proportionately broad, which are so strong and firm that they defy equally sunshine and rain.†   (source)
  • It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.†   (source)
  • The latter gentleman had a large staff, a large head, large features, and large half-boots; and he looked as if he had been taking a proportionate allowance of ale—as indeed he had.†   (source)
  • The world seemed hardly large enough to yield him an amount of travel proportionate to his equipment.†   (source)
  • *o The climate of the Union is upon the whole preferable to that of Europe, and its natural advantages are not less great; it is therefore evident that its population will at some future time be proportionate to our own.†   (source)
  • I will exert myself, and if it is in my power to seize the monster, be assured that he shall suffer punishment proportionate to his crimes.†   (source)
  • When I wanted to determine what increase in weight the Nautilus needed to be given in order to submerge, I had only to take note of the proportionate reduction in volume that salt water experiences in deeper and deeper strata.†   (source)
  • Not to speak of the fact that crime has been greatly on the increase among the lower classes during the last five years, not to speak of the cases of robbery and arson everywhere, what strikes me as the strangest thing is that in the higher classes, too, crime is increasing proportionately.†   (source)
  • No nature could be less suspicious than hers: when she was a child she believed in the gratitude of wasps and the honorable susceptibility of sparrows, and was proportionately indignant when their baseness was made manifest.†   (source)
  • That very day the miners began their labors, with a vigor and alacrity proportionate to their long rest from fatigue and their hopes of ultimate success.†   (source)
  • One would think, that a deliberate and practical denial of its authority was the only offense never contemplated by its government; else, why has it not assigned its definite, its suitable and proportionate, penalty?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Weston was exceedingly disappointed—much more disappointed, in fact, than her husband, though her dependence on seeing the young man had been so much more sober: but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression.†   (source)
  • This was a more authoritative speech than she had ever heard on her niece's lips, and Mrs. Penniman was proportionately startled.†   (source)
  • The wood-chopper had exerted all his art, and felt a proportionate degree of disappointment at the failure.†   (source)
  • The route was now painful; lying over ground ragged with rocks, and intersected with ravines, and their progress proportionately slow.†   (source)
  • The town was small, but the corn and hay-trade was proportionately large, and with his native sagacity he saw opportunity for a share of it.†   (source)
  • Because, while the whales of this order, though smaller than those of the former order, nevertheless retain a proportionate likeness to them in figure, yet the bookbinder's Quarto volume in its dimensioned form does not preserve the shape of the Folio volume, but the Octavo volume does.†   (source)
  • [Footnote q: This would be a population proportionate to that of Europe, taken at a mean rate of 410 inhabitants to the square league.†   (source)
  • Capacity for intense feeling is proportionate to the general intensity of the nature, and perhaps in all Fanny's sufferings, much greater relatively to her strength, there never was a time she suffered in an absolute sense what Bathsheba suffered now.†   (source)
  • A gentleman makes no noise: a lady is serene Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running, to secure some paltry convenience.†   (source)
  • I felt a conscientious solicitude for Adele's welfare and progress, and a quiet liking for her little self: just as I cherished towards Mrs. Fairfax a thankfulness for her kindness, and a pleasure in her society proportionate to the tranquil regard she had for me, and the moderation of her mind and character.†   (source)
  • Their progress, in consequence, was proportionate; and long before the twilight gathered about them, they had made good many toilsome miles on their return.†   (source)
  • Mr. Garth had been so kind and encouraging at the beginning of their interview, that gratitude and hopefulness had been at a high pitch, and the downfall was proportionate.†   (source)
  • There is some advantage in this; because these twin-tubs being so small they fit more readily into the boat, and do not strain it so much; whereas, the American tub, nearly three feet in diameter and of proportionate depth, makes a rather bulky freight for a craft whose planks are but one half-inch in thickness; for the bottom of the whale-boat is like critical ice, which will bear up a considerable distributed weight, but not very much of a concentrated one.†   (source)
  • All right then, my fine harpooner, if vertebrates several hundred meters long and proportionate in bulk live at such depths, their surface areas make up millions of square centimeters, and the pressure they undergo must be assessed in billions of kilograms.†   (source)
  • She felt none of those ups and downs of spirit which beset so many people without cause; never—to paraphrase a recent poet—never a gloom in Elizabeth-Jane's soul but she well knew how it came there; and her present cheerfulness was fairly proportionate to her solid guarantees for the same.†   (source)
  • …thoughtful Harry Maylie might have been at first, he was not proof against the worthy gentleman's good humour, which displayed itself in a great variety of sallies and professional recollections, and an abundance of small jokes, which struck Oliver as being the drollest things he had ever heard, and caused him to laugh proportionately; to the evident satisfaction of the doctor, who laughed immoderately at himself, and made Harry laugh almost as heartily, by the very force of sympathy.†   (source)
  • During the process of curing our large supply of hams and bacon, which occupied several days, we roamed about the neighbourhood in all directions, finding no trace of the serpent, but making many valuable acquisitions, among which were some gigantic bamboos from fifty to sixty feet in length, and of proportionate thickness.†   (source)
  • 'A beautiful bird!' said Arthur, after inquiring the price, and finding it proportionate to the size.†   (source)
  • The number of representatives of Virginia in 1823 was proportionate to the total number of the representatives of the Union, and to the relation which the population bore to that of the whole Union: in 1833 the number of representatives of Virginia was likewise proportionate to the total number of the representatives of the Union, and to the relation which its population, augmented in the course of ten years, bore to the augmented population of the Union in the same space of time.†   (source)
  • Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty: I toiled hard, and my success was proportionate to my efforts; my memory, not naturally tenacious, improved with practice; exercise sharpened my wits; in a few weeks I was promoted to a higher class; in less than two months I was allowed to commence French and drawing.†   (source)
  • His departure had been a proportionate disappointment, and had sadly increased her weariness of Middlemarch; but at first she had the alternative dream of pleasures in store from her intercourse with the family at Quallingham.†   (source)
  • When the delicate physical powers which have been sustained by an unnatural strain upon the mental energies and a resolute determination not to yield, at last give way, their degree of prostration is usually proportionate to the strength of the effort which has previously upheld them.†   (source)
  • When, in the writings of the later poets, Jove and his family are found to have moved from their cramped quarters on the peak of Olympus into the wide sky above it, their words show a proportionate increase of arrogance and reserve.†   (source)
  • Since it occurred, a change had come over Fred's sky, which altered his view of the distance, and was the reason why his uncle Featherstone's present of money was of importance enough to make his color come and go, first with a too definite expectation, and afterwards with a proportionate disappointment.†   (source)
  • There is no lack of comfortable furnished apartments in Portsmouth, and no difficulty in finding some that are proportionate to very slender finances; but the former were too good, and the latter too bad, and they went into so many houses, and came out unsuited, that Nicholas seriously began to think he should be obliged to ask permission to spend the night in the theatre, after all.†   (source)
  • It may have been observed by persons who go about the shires with eyes for beauty, that in Englishwoman a classically-formed face is seldom found to be united with a figure of the same pattern, the highly-finished features being generally too large for the remainder of the frame; that a graceful and proportionate figure of eight heads usually goes off into random facial curves.†   (source)
  • Having addressed these words to the combatants, he saluted Nicholas, who then observed that the face of Mr Crummles was quite proportionate in size to his body; that he had a very full under-lip, a hoarse voice, as though he were in the habit of shouting very much, and very short black hair, shaved off nearly to the crown of his head—to admit (as he afterwards learnt) of his more easily wearing character wigs of any shape or pattern.†   (source)
  • With regard to Stone Court, since Bulstrode wished to retain his hold on the stock, and to have an arrangement by which he himself could, if he chose, resume his favorite recreation of superintendence, Caleb had advised him not to trust to a mere bailiff, but to let the land, stock, and implements yearly, and take a proportionate share of the proceeds.†   (source)
  • I have only to hope that they may be proportionately short.†   (source)
  • …service, and make it easy to yourselves; for three or four of such as can not separately spare from the business of their plantations a waggon and four horses and a driver, may do it together, one furnishing the waggon, another one or two horses, and another the driver, and divide the pay proportionately between you; but if you do not this service to your king and country voluntarily, when such good pay and reasonable terms are offered to you, your loyalty will be strongly suspected.†   (source)
  • Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants.†   (source)
  • His nose is disproportionately big for his face, and kind of fleshy.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionately reverses the meaning of proportionately. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • No. It's irrational, excessive, disproportionate.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in disproportionate reverses the meaning of proportionate. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
  • Even the furniture looked sickly and disproportionate.†   (source)
  • The table, as always, was disproportionately laden with desserts.†   (source)
  • I felt disproportionately terrible, like I had just been caught fleeing the scene of a murder.†   (source)
  • It was some sort of insect, with a tiny body and disproportionately large, delicate wings.†   (source)
  • We showed the Court that these sentences are disproportionately imposed on children of color.†   (source)
  • She thought that his disproportionate size was something as unnatural as her cousin's tail of a pig.†   (source)
  • She looked so disproportionately moved by the matter that Stoddard smiled a little.†   (source)
  • In almost every conflict, mortality is disproportionately male.†   (source)
  • Among these last, a disproportionate number, I believe, are corpsmen.†   (source)
  • But there was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.†   (source)
  • He was about my height and shape, and he seemed disproportionately happy that we were there.†   (source)
  • They were excessive, his emotions, disproportionate.†   (source)
  • But his hands and feet were disproportionately small, delicate, and sensitively made.†   (source)
  • It's a small girl with disproportionately skinny legs.†   (source)
  • As the population increases, the number of representatives will become more disproportionate.†   (source)
  • They sit up with disproportionate interest.†   (source)
  • It was the longest sentence anyone had said, and my mother found herself disproportionately grateful for it.†   (source)
  • I was slim above the waist but disproportionately and strikingly thick below, as if gravity had pulled all the weight down to my lower half.†   (source)
  • In prisons, where a disproportionate number of Chicano males ended up, pinto organizations and publications flowered into existence.†   (source)
  • A disproportionate number of the nation's high achievers, the NRC study noted, such as Nobel laureates, are immigrants.†   (source)
  • We felt trapped in two seemingly unwinnable wars, in which a disproportionate share of the fighters came from our neighborhood, and in an economy that failed to deliver the most basic promise of the American Dream—a steady wage.†   (source)
  • "Viktor!" she shrieked, and dropped her small beaded bag, which made a loud thump quite disproportionate to its size.†   (source)
  • So Bridge hates band and hates the instructor and hates Kevin, who is a twerp with a disproportionately large ego.†   (source)
  • I know Peeta and I won, but a disproportionate amount of time is spent on us, right from the beginning.†   (source)
  • Boca had (and surely still has) a disproportionate share of the world's smallest, yappiest, most pampered dogs, the kind of pets that the Bocahontas set favored as fashion accessories.†   (source)
  • But the inability of his left tackle to handle the Vikings' right end was, in Walsh's view, a difference maker: it created fantastically disproportionate distortions in the game.†   (source)
  • I will confess that in the showers in the Gravesend Academy gym—after practicing the shot—I had noticed that Owen's doink was especially large; at least, it was disproportionately large.†   (source)
  • Those who become climbing stars, alas, also stand a fair chance of losing their lives: ever since 1922, when seven Sherpas were killed in an avalanche during the second British expedition, a disproportionate number of Sheras have died on Everest-fifty-three all told.†   (source)
  • Lynn's claim that Asians have higher IQs has been refuted, convincingly, by a number of other experts, who showed that he based his argument on IQ samples drawn disproportionately from urban, upper-income homes.†   (source)
  • And it seemed that lately a disproportionate number of those chosen were from New Beijing and the surrounding suburbs.†   (source)
  • A disproportionate number of the 36,000 gangsters in Honduras come from families in which the mother has migrated north, says Zamora.†   (source)
  • She also has a strangely disproportionate body, slim and dainty up top but weighed below the waist by wide hips, thick thighs, and big ankles.†   (source)
  • The extreme overrepresentation of people of color, the disproportionate sentencing of racial minorities, the targeted prosecution of drug crimes in poor communities, the criminalization of new immigrants and undocumented people, the collateral consequences of voter disenfranchisement, and the barriers to re-entry can only be fully understood through the lens of our racial history.†   (source)
  • But Boukreev's refusal or inability to play the role of a conventional guide in the Western tradition exasperated Fischer, It also forced him and Beidleman to shoulder a disproportionate share of the caretaker duties for their group, and by the first week in May the effort had taken an unmistakable toll on Fischer's health.†   (source)
  • Another reason to believe him a deeply embittered man was his attempt to break his father's will, which left a disproportionate amount to a stepbrother.†   (source)
  • It seemed disproportionately heavy for its size, but my arms were trembling slightly under their own weight, so it was hard to tell.†   (source)
  • So do residents of immigrant-heavy states such as California, where an estimated third of illegal immigrants live, because services immigrants use disproportionately, such as public schools, are funded with local and state taxes.†   (source)
  • For instance, there were two glassblowers, three fully stocked apothecaries, two binderies, four booksellers, two brothels, and a truly disproportionate number of taverns.†   (source)
  • As Professor Ross Miller notes in his book American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago: "Subsequent 'antifire' legislation disproportionately penalized the working poor who owned their own wooden homes.†   (source)
  • His legs were disproportionately small and slender, comparative stilts to the bulk of his upper body.†   (source)
  • His feeling was much like the disproportionate satisfaction that old people can find, regardless of their losses, infirmities, and disappointments, in small things, like sitting under the trees and watching the birds flit from branch to branch, or drinking tea from a china cup with a gold rim.†   (source)
  • But A Dorm seemed populated by a disproportionate number of fussy old ladies, plus the Puppy Program dogs and their people, who were mostly nuts.†   (source)
  • That's because the CPS, like most urban school districts, had a disproportionate number of minority students.†   (source)
  • She liked stopping and watching, or looking away actually, or guiding his hand, or going into the kitchen for a glass of water and coming back and pouring it partly on his chest, a body disproportionate to the bedding, and then handing him the glass and watching him drink and thinking there was nothing crazy going on that she could clearly locate except that she was naked in her workroom.†   (source)
  • But these programs suffer from all the ills in our education system; opportunities go, disproportionately, to those who already have initiative, intelligence, and—not least—family support.†   (source)
  • In the older, quieter part of town, there are what seems a disproportionately high number of auto repair garages and beauty salons and churches and bars, all half-failed and dilapidating in their own fashion, and one's perception is that whatever uniqueness and charms Ebbington once had are being inexorably absorbed by larger, external presences both unknown and invited.†   (source)
  • But Van Rensburg was in a class by himself and we believed that if he were gone, it would make a disproportionate difference for all of us.†   (source)
  • As a group, Hispanic students test poorly; they are also disproportionately likely to have non-English-speaking parents.†   (source)
  • But these communities with heavy concentrations of African Americans often have many features in common: poor-quality housing, private or public; high rates of unemployment, school truancy, and dropouts, of drug dealing and abuse, of illegitimate births, of violent crime; and an absence of adult males, because such disproportionate numbers of them, relative to white communities, are in jail.†   (source)
  • Other proposals have been self-serving and unlikely to have much impact, like subsidies and tax cuts for manufacturers (the benefits of which go disproportionately to the owners of factories, not to the workers, who still must compete with legions of ever-cheaper robots).†   (source)
  • Though here legally, they couldn't yet vote, so longtime residents had a disproportionate say on election day.†   (source)
  • Such transactions, particularly in Asia, account for a disproportionate share of trafficker profits and kidnappings of young teenagers.†   (source)
  • His disappointment was disproportionate when she sighingly agreed: "Yes, I reckon I hadn't better go to any dances.†   (source)
  • Joe had thought his strange rage had been vented earlier, as he had talked to the teenage boy, leaving only despair, but here it was again, disproportionate to the offense that seemed to have caused it, as hot and explosive as ever.†   (source)
  • The big, awkward, ill-favoured old man stood with his disproportionately long arms hanging by his sides, staring at her, unaware that his presence half undid the good the leaping flames were doing her.†   (source)
  • This rather startling bias in the sample may have occurred because those who did the fighting came disproportionately from the same groups as the sample.†   (source)
  • Until World War II, the United States was disproportionately male, and the frontier was overwhelmingly so.†   (source)
  • Even before the government's efforts to remove it, Sophiatown held a symbolic importance for Africans disproportionate to its small population.†   (source)
  • At the same time, politicians were growing increasingly softer on crime—"for fear of sounding racist," as the economist Gary Becker has written, "since African-Americans and Hispanics commit a disproportionate share of felonies."†   (source)
  • From 1991 to 2001, the homicide rate among young black men—who were disproportionately represented among crack dealers—fell 48 percent, compared to 30 percent for older black men and older white men.†   (source)
  • At a little past nine, she left poor Mavity at the door of that wretched place the poor woman called her room, looked quietly in to see that her mother seemed to sleep, got her hat and hurried out, goaded by a seemingly disproportionate fever of impatience and anxiety.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, it is the countries with the most straitlaced and sexually conservative societies, such as India, Pakistan, and Iran, that have disproportionately large numbers of forced prostitutes.†   (source)
  • Organizations made up disproportionately of young men--whether they be gangs or boys' schools or prisons or military units--are often particularly violent.†   (source)
  • As the link between abortion and crime makes clear, unwanted children—who are disproportionately subject to neglect and abuse—have worse outcomes than children who were eagerly welcomed by their parents.†   (source)
  • Data on pelvis shapes is poor, but African women seem disproportionately likely to have anthropoid pelvises, and some experts on maternal health offer that as one reason maternal mortality rates are so high in Africa.†   (source)
  • But as many Muslims have themselves pointed out, as long as smart, bold women like Ellaha disproportionately end up in prison, or in coffins, in some Muslim nations, then those countries are undermining their own hopes for development.†   (source)
  • A gust of laughter: melodious laughter; low at first, then becoming louder: unrestrained: disproportionate : uncontrolled.†   (source)
  • Arguing that toxic and hazardous waste facilities were located near minority and low-income neighborhoods in disproportionate numbers, Solis successfully marshaled support for the landmark bill.†   (source)
  • Goddammit, man, it's disproportionate!†   (source)
  • And the jacaras - the legendary Jesus-birds - walking the water on their long, disproportionate toes (that use the fragile underwater lily-leaves as stepping-stones).†   (source)
  • He foresaw that in certain circumstances he would have to act on the supposition that because she was a woman she mattered far more than the rest of them put together, and he shrank from a situation in which such disproportionate behavior might be unavoidable.†   (source)
  • He had contented himself with putting a flat roof on the remaining first floor which gave the building the squat, disproportionate look of a child's playhouse built of shoe boxes.†   (source)
  • His room was filled with a strange jumble of objects—a harmonium in a gothic case, an elephant's-foot waste-paper basket, a dome of wax fruit, two disproportionately large Sevres vases, framed drawings by Daumier—made all the more incongruous by the austere college furniture and the large luncheon table.†   (source)
  • This frustrated desire to be a man of genius, and the knowledge that he was in truth not in the first flight—a knowlege which led to a great deal of despondency, and to that self-centredness which in later life at least made him so childishly greedy for compliments, made him brood so disproportionately over his failure and the extent of it and the reasons for it—these are qualities that break up the fine steel engraving of the typical Cambridge intellectual.†   (source)
  • Because of its thinness the mouth and eyes looked disproportionately large, and the eyes seemed filled with a murderous, unappeasable hatred of somebody or something.†   (source)
  • On a scarlet-draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd.†   (source)
  • Satisfactory; yet surely she greeted it with disproportionate joy.†   (source)
  • A loud cry broke from the old man: his terror was disproportionate and ridiculous.†   (source)
  • Her Armand was disproportionately young and slight, a handsome youth, perplexed in the extreme.†   (source)
  • He is small for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large.†   (source)
  • This news will give Charles disproportionate pain.†   (source)
  • "That shows you wanted me to," he returned, with a disproportionate joy in their nonsense.†   (source)
  • The prince was a short, stout man, with a head disproportionately large.†   (source)
  • The capricious ravine of streets did not cut this block of houses into too disproportionate slices.†   (source)
  • She said nothing for a moment, but then met the light question with a disproportionate gravity.†   (source)
  • Raskolnikov noticed this disproportionate terror.†   (source)
  • The other corner was disproportionately obtuse.†   (source)
  • This rapid and disproportionate increase of certain States threatens the independence of the others.†   (source)
  • Some of them, by the accidents of his reading, loomed out in his fancy disproportionately large by comparison with the rest.†   (source)
  • This "den" was the result of the dining room's having been designed with three windows, so that it extended across the full width of the house, thus leaving no space for three drawing rooms, as was usual with this style of house, but for only two, one of which, placed at right angles to the dining room, would have been disproportionately deep, with only one window to the street.†   (source)
  • …and had made them melt like honey and flow beyond their proper margins, either surging out in a milky, frothing wave, washing from its place a florid gothic capital, drowning the white violets of the marble floor; or else reabsorbed into their limits, contracting still further a crabbed Latin inscription, bringing a fresh touch of fantasy into the arrangement of its curtailed characters, closing together two letters of some word of which the rest were disproportionately scattered.†   (source)
  • Rather, they originated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came; a desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which it referred; a wondering that was more like the wondering of some other spirit within his, than his own.†   (source)
  • I hated them from the first, and shut myself away from everyone in timid, wounded and disproportionate pride.†   (source)
  • Can the heart become misshapen and contract incurable deformities and infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault?†   (source)
  • I was very much depressed in spirits; very solitary; and felt an uneasiness in Ham's not being there, disproportionate to the occasion.†   (source)
  • Thus his arms were disproportionately long; and when, to steady himself against the motion of the vessel, he took hold of anything near by, the size of his hands and their evident power compelled remark; so the wonder who and what he was mixed continually with a wish to know the particulars of his life.†   (source)
  • The dusk had closed in completely and the street lamps were separated by wide intervals of a pavement in which cavities and fissures played a disproportionate part.†   (source)
  • Although there was in these words a flavor of that sentimental emotion at her own lofty feelings, and that new mystical fervor which had lately gained ground in Petersburg, and which seemed to Alexey Alexandrovitch disproportionate, still it was pleasant to him to hear this now.†   (source)
  • His memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and perturbed pool.†   (source)
  • This poetical heightening of the parlour consisted in the wall being painted to represent the exterior of a thatched cottage; the artist having introduced (in as effective a manner as he found compatible with their highly disproportionate dimensions) the real door and window.†   (source)
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