bigness
the fact or condition of being large in size, extent, amount, etc.
Chiefly New England. size1.
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How to use bigness in a sentence
In a way, they need to make the case that, as in the past, at some point bigness in and of itself is a curse.
What does breaking up Big Tech really mean? | James Surowiecki | June 30, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThis is a time of expanding bigness in the art world, of noise, of numbers, of uber-artists, mixed-media, mega-collectors.
Railing against bigness is the easy part, as the Tea Party is now uncomfortably aware.
Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition | James Poulos | October 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe power of bigness corrupts by spreading the twisted logic of bigness.
Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition | James Poulos | October 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIf absolute power corrupts absolutely, we might now understand that bigness works in a similar way.
Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition | James Poulos | October 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
The Liebeck jury intuited that the only way to punish this logic of bigness was to partake of it.
Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition | James Poulos | October 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen he saw it and noted its bigness, he gave Alaeddin ten diners, which he took, and the Jew went his way.
Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp | John Payne"It isn't the bigness, dear; its the variety," replied the girl.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz | L. Frank BaumFor, as natural philosophers, there is no bigness or littleness to you.
Lectures on Landscape | John RuskinI say you're a fool and need a guardian—and from now on I'm going to make my bigness aboard here!
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayIt would be only a manly thing for him to think this out, and save her from the results of her own blessed bigness of heart.
Freckles | Gene Stratton-Porter
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