What is "unimportant"

Usage examples of "unimportant".

But here in this analogue cosmos they were unimportant, secondary to a colossal shape crouching in an indefinable mid-region, a black corpulence in which floated half-unseen a golden nucleus, like the moon behind clouds.

But the instincts of our common humanity indignantly remonstrate against the testing of clumsy or unimportant hypotheses by prodigal experimentation, or MAKING THE TORTURE OF ANIMALS AN EXHIBITION TO ENLARGE A MEDICAL SCHOOL, or for the entertainment of students--not one in fifty of whom can turn it to any profitable account.

Even Dickie and Marge seemed far away, and what they might be talking about seemed unimportant.

Adams and note his apparent misapprehension of questions that would tend to involve him, and note the apparent failure of his theretofore wonderfully clear and exact memory of the most trivial and unimportant details, I am inclined to reject the whole story as a fabrication that has been punctured and fallen to pieces.

Supposers, the Perhapsers, the Might-Have-Beeners, the Could-HaveBeeners, the Must-Have-Beeners, the Without-a-Shadow-of-Doubters, the We-are-Warranted-in-Believingers, and all that funny crop of solemn architects who have taken a good solid foundation of five indisputable and unimportant facts and built upon it a Conjectural Satan thirty miles high.

Gabriella prepay for the hotel room, but it had seemed unimportant at the time, in the heat of the moment as it were.

It was a testimony to the high mental power and adept deceitfulness of grandfather-to-the-nineteenth that Rod McBan CXXX had inflicted only symbolic breakage on his favorite treasures, some of which were not even in the categories allowed for repurchase, like offworld drama-cubes, and had been able to hide his things in an unimportant corner of his fields hide them so well that neither robbers nor police had thought of them for the hundreds of years that followed.

That portion of the ordinances of Moses which concerned transactions and unimportant conditions underwent transformation but the essential teachings of Moses were revoiced and confirmed by Christ without change.

It was unlikely that Schwartz would kill Sproul because Sproul knew so relatively unimportant a secret.

The engagement was classed by General Shafter as unimportant, although its effect upon our army was inspiring.

But the machine was unimportant compared with what Sheff and Rudy had to say.

Her anxieties at work she could now see were trival - whether Heaven Arkwright was taking advantage of her absence, whether Heather would actually come back to her desk after maternity leave, was unimportant.

And to none of these masters, insisted Myron, when he defended himself against the scoffing of Ora or the incomprehension of Effie May, would an unemptied ash-tray be unimportant!

In the first half of the 18th century, when Bushire was an unimportant fishing village, it was selected by Nadir Shah as the southern port of Persia and dockyard of the navy which he aspired to create in the Persian Gulf, and the British commercial factory of the East India Company, established at Gombrun, the modern Bander Abbasi, was transferred to it in 1759.

Little Arcady meant him of the Methodist church, the two other clergymen being so young and unimportant as to need identification by name.