Disproportion

The disproportion is all the more surprising because females watch more TV than males. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The disproportion is far more acute in The West Indies than it has been elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (1958)

I don’t get claims that motherhood is ‘fetishized’ (I certainly did not get Cooke’s, and suspected that she does not understand the proper uses of the term ‘fetish’) – at the crudest level, ‘fetishize’ is used to refer to something being valued in disproportion to its worth, and I actually don’t think that that’s practically possible in the case of motherhood. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Doesn’t really matter how far you go back, the Israeli’s failed to build on the Hamas truce and each escalation has been in disproportion to the cause. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He walked or sat with his eyes continually fixed upon these feet -- reproachfully, it seemed -- as if their disproportion were a source of perennial woe; he carried his arms looped behind him, and had acquired a peculiar stoop -- to facilitate his vigilant guardianship of his feet, apparently. ❋ Edward Dyson (1898)

Him Rhadamanthus beholds, full of all deformity and disproportion, which is caused by licence and luxury and insolence and incontinence, and despatches him ignominiously to his prison, and there he undergoes the punishment which he deserves. ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)

Unless Israel uses what you call "disproportion", there won't be any Israel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A numerous nobility causeth poverty, and inconvenience in a state; for it is a surcharge of expense; and besides, it being of necessity, that many of the nobility fall, in time, to be weak in fortune, it maketh a kind of disproportion, between honor and means. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Roman Catholic and Protestant countries -- a disproportion which is so significant that comment upon it is unnecessary. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is precisely here that the danger of "disproportion" was found. ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

A numerous nobility causeth poverty and inconvenience in a state; for it is a surcharge4 of expense; and besides, it being of necessity that many of the nobility fall in time to be weak in fortune, it maketh a kind of disproportion between honor and means. ❋ Unknown (1909)

They exhibit a joyous inconsistency, the disproportion which is the essence of parody combined with the accuracy which is the _sine qua non_ of satire. ❋ Julius West (1904)

And this I likewise found in the _petrify'd_ Wood, that the pores were somewat bigger then those of _Charcoal_, each pore being neer upon half as bigg again, but they did not bear that disproportion which is exprest in the tenth _Scheme_, between the small specks or pores in the first Figure ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)

Those who reason thus usually speak the words "disproportion" or ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those who reason thus usually speak the words "disproportion" or "asymmetry" in an indignant tone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The technological "disproportion" declares its right regardless of human laws and requires very little propaganda to impose its authority: it is sufficient to be able to imitate God and "overthrew these cities, with all the plain about them, and all those who dwelt there" amidst a torrent of light. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the Israeli "disproportion" justifies itself, the human proportions of the Palestinians are also eliminated. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even when confronted by such a devastatingly awful death toll (and if "disproportion" ever had any meaning, it most certainly does here), many people are proclaiming that Israel "lost" insofar as longer term goals of peace and security are concerned -- see, as just two examples, here and here. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The philosopher André Glucksmann provoked furious, snide anti-Jewish comments from Le Monde subscribers after publication of a thoughtful essay on the principle of "disproportion" in the current Gaza operation. ❋ Unknown (2009)