| Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world. |
| The Saturnian's primary fictional purpose, as he visits our planet, is to marvel at the relative puniness of humankind, whom he examines with a very large microscope. |
| But that hides the puniness of the economy. |
| In the film, Macy's character was totally enclosed in the irony and yet we could identify with his desperate puniness without hoping for him to get away with his crime. |
| Paintings that depict the beauty and immensity of nature and man's puniness within it were a specialty of Romantic painters. |
| The book seems to be about the fear of death, the culture of death, the arrogance and puniness of men and women in the face of death, and even the defeat of death. |
