puniness

Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.

The Wall of the World 2010

There had been a call to rouse and put forth work, and I wrought with all the puniness of my might (woe is me!), and earned my post at the window that looks out upon the large things.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

As in his cubhood he had been made to feel his smallness and puniness on the day he first came in from the Wild to the village of Grey Beaver, so now, in his full-grown stature and pride of strength, he was made to feel small and puny.

The Southland 2010

Tomasz felt as he did in the aftermath of a drunken night or when firing a recalcitrant worker, the surge of self-righteous energy replaced by a sense of his own puniness.

ALONE With You Marisa Silver 2010

Tomasz felt as he did in the aftermath of a drunken night or when firing a recalcitrant worker, the surge of self-righteous energy replaced by a sense of his own puniness.

ALONE With You Marisa Silver 2010

And as the recession bites into long-haul holiday budgets and the puniness of the pound deters Brits from making their usual treks to Tuscany or the Dordogne, it is hoping for a bumper summer this year.

Suffolk Chic 2009

Passing between the corporeal portals of their womanly flesh, my pale-toned puniness frightened me.

The Best American Poetry 2008 2008

The immense disproportion between the magnitude of the problem Gore had described and the puniness of what he was asking us to do about it was enough to sink your heart.

Why Bother? « Gerry Canavan 2008

It's dumb politics to ridicule the puniness of the town where Palin served as mayor.

David Quigg: Forgetting Sarah Palin 2008

They were overcooked to limp puniness, they sometimes came stewed in a tomato sauce this actually sounds good now that I'm telling it, but was repulsive at the time, and they squeaked against my teeth when I ate them.

born again green beans tannaz 2006