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Updated: September 22, 2025
She became quite stiff, she would not answer. It all seemed to her so false and so belittling. And still Gudrun did not appear. 'I think I shall go to Florence for the winter, said Hermione at length. 'Will you? he answered. 'But it is so cold there. 'Yes, but I shall stay with Palestra. It is quite comfortable. 'What takes you to Florence? 'I don't know, said Hermione slowly.
But whereas the continental European would sit down before the misfortune and weep, the American swears a round oath, spits on his hands, and pitches in to shovel the "slide" out again. He isn't belittling the disasters; it is merely that he knows the canal has got to be dug and goes ahead and digs it. That is the greatest thing on the Zone.
With these considerations in view surely a serious, thoughtful, and thorough study of the louse, in all its varieties and species, is neither belittling nor degrading, nor a waste of time.
The adventure had served only to make me understand Paulina's abhorrence of such experiments, and at every turn of the slight intrigue I had felt how exasperating and belittling such a relation was bound to be between two people who, had they been free, would have mated openly. And so from a brief phase of imperfect forgetting I was driven back to a deeper and more understanding remembrance....
It was not a new-born vanity which induced this long survey. He felt so strange that he could not resist the suspicion of his personal appearance having changed during the night. What he saw in the glass, however, was the man he knew before. It was almost a disappointment a belittling of his recent experience.
Yet there are writers who, in ignorance and infected with the modern madness which makes half-educated Englishmen presume to teach where they have yet to learn, and to pose as prophets by belittling and running down, without regard to truth, their own country and its finest efforts in the cause of civilisation, actually declare that Germany has led the way in this matter.
But he wrote these sonnets more for his pleasure than because he made a profession of it, always belittling them himself, accusing himself of ignorance in these matters.
For me, her eyes said, this is practically a slumming expedition, to be cloaked with belittling laughter and semi-apologetics. And the other women passionately poured out the impression that though they were in the crowd they were not of it.
That was a belittling thing to remember. But worst of all, she had committed the unpardonable sin for a woman she had lent him money. He could never forgive or forget the horrible fact that he had borrowed her last cash to pay his fare to Chicago. Next to that for inexcusableness was her self-support and, worse, self-sufficiency.
Still, the church would have done 'em some good if only it kept 'em a few seconds from doing somebody or something a personal injury." Billy was chafing at his friend's monopoly of the talk and promptly seized the opportunity of belittling his opinions. "What's the use," he cried. "I'm with Miss Kate. Charlie's done right in fixing on red pine lining.
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