The very narrowness of the Channel meant that only short voyages were necessary. |
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What the film does best is to really give people a sense of the claustrophobic narrowness of these caves. |
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The narrowness of the track startled me, after being accustomed to the breadth of the trail. |
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In this context it is somewhat paradoxical to find ourselves often being criticized for the narrowness of our view of management accounting. |
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There are challenging physical conditions in the steepness of the site and the narrowness of the terraces. |
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The square of her shoulders contrasted with the narrowness of her waist, and the latter contrasted with the broadness of her hips. |
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Or can narrowness and peculiarity become a strength, at least in the hands of a great writer? |
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There is a traffic jam on a regular basis in the Shaheed Gunj area due to the narrowness of the lanes. |
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Ultimately, the cooperative factories foundered on the narrowness, not the utopianism, of their vision. |
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My dear hearers, this very straitness of the path, this narrowness of the path, doth have in it something discouraging. |
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Teenagers may be outwardly showing rebellion, but there's a narrowness of thought even in this. |
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The key figures of merit of these PC structures are the narrowness of the peak in the emission spectrum and the energy density of the emission. |
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Despite the narrowness of the final scoreline, they were in control almost from start to finish. |
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Despite the relative narrowness of his subject matter, his poetry remains fresh and contemporary. |
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Unfortunately, the narrowness of the survey has tended to get lost in media coverage of it. |
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Earlier case studies elucidate more clearly the perceived narrowness of explanations that have typically prevailed in the literature in the past. |
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She criticised the narrowness of the parking spaces at this key central location. |
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The narrowness of the aisles between the shelves helped convey that superstore feeling of goods looming in abundance. |
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But it is not quite a cascade, either, since the narrowness of the granite channel gives it something of the character of a formal rill. |
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One is left to reflect on the many might-have-beens and the extreme narrowness between victory and a severe setback. |
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However, the narrowness of the debate has successfully kept attention away from their real Achilles' heel. |
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The town was medieval, surrounded by a wall, which symbolized for Tillich the narrowness and restrictedness of his environment. |
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The narrowness of his perspective ultimately detracts from his ability to objectively evaluate the merits of the works he considers. |
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He is beset both by theological doubts and by distress at the narrowness and hypocrisy of his colleagues and congregations. |
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A writer in the public realm, he attacked narrowness, bigotry, and injustice wherever he found it. |
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Given the narrowness of their margin, they have a very limited ability to get anything done. |
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The main difficulty is the narrowness of the footways in relation to the number of pedestrians wanting to use them. |
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He admitted to feeling uncomfortable at the narrowness of his majority over the opposition candidate. |
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I would urge the community to not get into a place of rigidity and narrowness where they can't view the whole and what is at stake. |
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This late development has incensed many political actors and citizens, given the narrowness of the ruling party's command in Parliament. |
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He raced along the familiar trail, cursing its narrowness, its crookedness, its unalterable length. |
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The magazine is pragmatic, plainspoken, populist, contemptuous of the Right's narrowness, and incredulous before the Left's convolutions. |
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She kicked out against the the boredom, repetitiveness and narrowness of women's lives. |
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Some may point to the narrowness of these losing margins and claim that luck has not been a friend. |
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This narrowness of perspective tends to significantly limit clinical psychology's scope of research and practice. |
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Two chief factors are those of narrowness of focus and imprecision of terminology. |
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His authority had been gravely damaged by the narrowness of yesterday's victory. |
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Notwithstanding the narrowness of his defeat of Al Gore in 2000, Mr Bush interpreted that victory as a mandate for pursuing radical policies. |
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Both A-Levels and Scottish Highers are castigated for their narrowness of subject matter. |
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For one, she will be astonished by not only the pervasive groupthink but how little awareness there is of the narrowness of thought present. |
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It seems as if the conference organizers are indulging in aggressive ideological narrowness. |
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The walls of these rooms are colored red, like Japanese lacquer, which contributes to the sense of narrowness and confinement, like you're dining inside an oversize bento box. |
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Between 1870 and 1884 some 3,000 groundings of ships occurred because of the narrowness and tortuousness of the channel. |
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As at Goshen, these craft, because of the narrowness of the creek, had to be launched sideways, and then were often kedged down the creek to the bay. |
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Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. |
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Here the institutional process sought to protect the narrowness of its policy thinking by avoiding public scrutiny. |
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In this enclosed space, the narrowness of the milk-white walls brings on disequilibrium, fainting spells, and vertigo. |
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Again, the overwhelming impression of myself and other Western visitors was of narrowness and claustrophobia. |
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He was a practical dreamer who battled the narrowness of his times to build a unique new nation. |
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Scope: The main comments expressed during the public consultation related to the narrowness of the Commission's preliminary analysis. |
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This budget procedure confirms the narrowness of the multiannual financial framework. |
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It shows the meanness, the narrowness, and the unconstitutional posture of the government. |
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That is just one example of the narrowness of our focus on post-secondary education. |
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In order to make up for the narrowness of the blades facing the wind, turbine manufacturers prefer to let the turbines rotate relatively quickly. |
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To build walls around our identity is the beginning of a decline, of narrowness, of hate. |
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The narrowness of the market, due to high transport costs, made it even easier to operate at a very low scale. |
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The situation is made more difficult by the narrowness of the road and the absence of sidewalks. |
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The street's narrowness does not permit a swift entrance by the police. |
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Wide, large spectacle frames will counteract the face's narrowness. |
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Though it is not the country's largest, narrowest, or deepest canyon, the Black Canyon provides an unsurpassed combination of depth and narrowness. |
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With the narrowness of the streets and the thinness of residents' walls, it is hard to insulate yourself from the dramas and catastrophes of the people who live near you. |
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The council also said the narrowness of the slots in the drain gratings, which had been designed for pedestrian safety, were vulnerable to blocking by litter and debris. |
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I realized that the very narrowness of my complaints was backhanded evidence of the enormous amount that the film gets right. |
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The paralyzing narrowness of American political life, with its minuscule differences between two big business parties, can be traced back to this period. |
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They came up in single file, owing to the narrowness of the passage. |
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The narrowness of the guidelines may result in delayed tumour diagnosis. |
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It was not widely read because of the narrowness of the legal reasoning. |
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I reflect for a time upon my own life and dwell a little on the insignificance of my efforts, the selfishness of my concerns, the narrowness of my sympathies. |
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This distasteful reference clearly revealed the narrowness of his outlook. |
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He often criticises architects for the narrowness of their vision. |
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Universities where such freedom of thought and opinion is not nurtured and protected will soon find themselves enslaved to narrowness, bigotry and intolerance. |
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I reproached myself bitterly for narrowness and ingratitude. |
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The sheer narrowness of the Republican majority in the House meant that the next set of Congressional mid-term elections would assume an almost Presidential-like importance. |
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As a church we have always lived in the dichotomy of the universality of the call toward and the narrowness of our discipleship in Christ. |
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The aircraft's proximity to terrain and the narrowness of the canyon precluded a turn, and the aircraft's climb rate was insufficient to clear the rising terrain. |
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In view of the narrowness of the Straits and the proximity of the coastline on either side, the works planned by Singapore will have a drastic affect on the geography and hydrography of the Straits of Johor. |
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The city of Tangier lies in the north of Morocco, nearby to the street of Gibraltar, the sea narrowness which connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Atlantic. |
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Par 5 dogleg left made difficult by the narrowness of the fairway. |
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The crucial factor which frustrated firefighting efforts was the narrowness of the streets. |
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Also, the narrowness of the field meant that Boudica could put forth only as many troops as the Romans could at a given time. |
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Sometimes saccharinely rose-tinted, it also conveyed the narrowness of the villagers' world. |
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The leading idea to which one must hold fast must combine the whole width of tolerance without its customary coldness, and the whole fruitfulness of faith without its narrowness or its frequent implacability. |
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At the outset, the narrowness of the question posed must be highlighted. |
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I hope that realism will open our eyes and that we will finally be able to see the narrowness of the framework within which our actions are confined, by the very nature of things. |
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The alleyway's narrowness does not permit one to step back and appreciate the sheer volume of the place, which, to all appearances, is dominated by the dome over the reception. |
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With a rising participation age, increasing evidence of the early teens being a crucial point in young people's learning, the narrowness of GCSEs and too much teaching to the test, it is a natural step. |
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The narrowness of the street that runs in front of his Roman palazzo forced most of the TV teams to record it all with a foreshortened perspective that gave the impression of a forest of banners and placards. |
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It was very important not to be trapped by that, because I knew the Tories thought it: 'He's a leftwinger and it'll be full of leftwing stuff.' But it was too important to have a narrowness defining it. |
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On physical examination, he had a tall stature, a thin and long face with intermaxillary narrowness, and paleness. |
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The management of chemicals and POPs in Comoros is particularly difficult because of the insularity of the country and the narrowness of the treatment solutions available for hazardous substances. |
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In the cliff area, slope declivity and the narrowness of surface available for construction are such that the base of many granaries is to be supported by pillars or stone walls. |
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It is considered a difficult route to navigate due to the narrowness of the passage and unpredictable winds and currents. |
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It has come to be a mark of narrowness and fossilhood to be a devout believer in Christ and His Cross. |
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The main criticism has been the narrowness of the OECD because of its limited membership to a select few rich nations. |
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You can tell by the kerbstones on the left side of the road going towards the Mill where vehicles keep catching them because of the narrowness of the road. |
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It was this process which gave the Silver Pit its depth and narrowness. |
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However, the strait's narrowness, shallowness, and lack of accurate charting makes it unsuitable for many modern large ships, most of which use the Strait of Malacca instead. |
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Byron did not visit the Lakes, but he ridiculed the isolation and narrowness of mind of the older Lake Poets, as well as of their abandonment of radical politics. |
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