Significats de own littleness en anglès

To hang his head was to proclaim his own littleness.

I could only feel ashamed of myself, and of my own littleness of mind and morals.

The bleak splendors of these remote and lonely forests rather overwhelmed him with the sense of his own littleness.

And now at last I was placed in a position whereby I could feel and reflect upon my own littleness.

The yard looked deserted and desolated, giving him a sudden realisation of his own littleness and the immensity of the hour.

Here, we are like two mere specks; and the feeling of our own littleness always brings us into the presence of God.

Then, as if the fair prospect rendered him conscious of his own littleness and the insignificance of his woes, he fell thoughtful.

This gangway, wide and vacant, and yet relatively narrow, conspired with everything about it to enhance Redwood's sense of his own littleness.

Says Manuel, smiling sadly: I am not so wonderful but that in the hour of my triumph I am frightened by my own littleness.

The sense of her own littleness aroused her to a power of comprehension of the grandeur of the mass of which she was a part.

On which occasions his additional conciliatory sarcasms, accompanied with smiles denoting the enjoyment of his victory, never failed to make me feel my own littleness.

"How could we endure this grandeur, or our own littleness?"

"To pick holes in a man of that quality only seems to accentuate one's own littleness."