puniness

I want more excitement than this puniness. I want updated replays of Blair stopped in his tracks by a raging Sharone Storer at a Birmingham hospital, complaining of her husband's poor treatment.

Even the unsympathetic Sheriff speaks of the possibility of revelation but argues that it could only be of his "own miserable conceit and personal puniness." (57) Revelation is always at hand yet never sufficient.

Our destiny is that of imitating reality, platonically, under a lashing irony that unmasks the puniness of our achievement.

With superb artistic skill the author uses the terms of going down [yarad] and great [gadol] as counterpoints, the puniness of man against the power of the Almighty.

The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was enough to sink your heart.

What is it about the Dixie Chicks that provoked such a hysterical reaction, given the puniness of what you said?" ("Shame and Sensibility," Village Voice, July 25, 2006).

Neither "abyss" moves him to Pascalian awe or to a sense of the puniness of the human mind.