What is "out of proportion"

Usage examples of "out of proportion".

Illnesses were magnified totally out of proportion by the average person after dark.

Quite trivial things, such as a few thoughtless words, could produce in him outbursts of temper which I thought quite out of proportion.

He would go on like that by the hour until listening to him would have me getting things out of proportion and I'd find myself thinking of the triffids as though they were some kind of competitor.

We may say, speaking somewhat roughly, that a stimulus applied to the nervous system, like a spark to dynamite, is able to take advantage of the stored energy in unstable equilibrium, and thus to produce movements out of proportion to the proximate cause.

It produced a cymballike crash each time it hit, entirely out of proportion with its apparent mass and velocity, and this sound increased in volume on each successive bounce.

Further, the heads of the adults are not so out of proportion to their bodies as in the case of the young.

The beast threw everything out of proportion, making the glacier seem a frozen, muddy rivulet that one might step across.

Military takeovers of the governments in Skandistan and Moldava and al-Alemand and the Tyrol, very close to Turi, alarmed the rest of the world all out of proportion to their puny size, as seeming to indicate a resurgence of Muslim aggressivity.

We shall be so out of proportion in size to anything that we may find there.

Yet this small happening had consequences far out of proportion to its intrinsic importance.

A splendid swelling mount all covered with long, black, curly hair, extending far over her beautiful belly, and some inches down on the inside of her thighs, most extraordinary large rounded buttocks, quite out of proportion to her size, but so exciting to behold and replete with voluptuous pleasure.