Insignificance in example sentence

Just as all the preparations for the wedding had been disagreeable to him, since they detracted by their insignificance from the majesty of what was taking place, so now the preparations for the coming birth, the time of which they were reckoning on their fingers, appeared to him yet more offensive.

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True awe, a sense of wonder and insignificance in the face of something enormous and grand, is rare in our lives.

And half the time, what's happened is it's related this kind of sense of insignificance to humankind, to the Earth in a bigger space.

What if that Copernican insignificance was actually all wrong?

This tells us that that insignificance paradigm that we somehow got to learn from the Copernican principle, it's all wrong.

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