Meanings of comparative insignificance in English

When she came to her own rooms, Carrie saw their comparative insignificance.

The wolves now had sunk to a plane of comparative insignificance.

Two words more upon Rigdon, before we leave him in his comparative insignificance!

And one of its teachings had to do with the comparative insignificance of pride.

But in the most flourishing parts of Italy, the feudal nobles were reduced to comparative insignificance.

Each was remarkable for its extremely long tail and for the comparative insignificance of its head.

That he loved her was with him now a matter that had sunk into comparative insignificance.

English commerce has dwindled away to comparative insignificance.

The forest belt is so immense that the wooded plains of the Amazon shrink into comparative insignificance.

The successors of Cruni'nus did not inherit his abilities, and the Bulgarians soon sunk into comparative insignificance.

Therefore, he was considerably surprised, on finding the firm's Adams Street offices, to observe their comparative insignificance.

But in Germany most human faults and follies sink into comparative insignificance beside the enormity of walking on the grass.

Their comparative insignificance had left them unobserved during most of the foregoing scene; and material changes had occurred, unheeded, in their situation.

The uncertainty and importance of the present, reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries.

When contrasted with the writings of the Master-Humorist, these readings of his, though so remarkable in themselves, shrink, no doubt, to comparative insignificance.

All his meditations and formulated doctrines radiate from the great and sublime idea of the majesty of God and the comparative insignificance of man.