In both there was but one very simple rhythm with two movements; and the size of the large picture, which was twelve feet high, was incommensurate with the slightness of the expression.
Had he understood this he could have seen that his limitless ambition was incommensurate with his comparatively small capabilities.
Our reasons are ludicrously incommensurate with the volume of our feeling, yet on the latter we unhesitatingly act.
A philosophy whose principle is so incommensurate with our most intimate powers as to deny them all {83} relevancy in universal affairs, as to annihilate their motives at one blow, will be even more unpopular than pessimism.
This has made gaps bare of such fragments, and between them incommensurate spaces where they could move freely in their solar orbits.
To take the most completely incommensurate ratio known to science, that of the diameter of a circle to the circumference, which has been carried out to seven hundred decimal places without repetition of the figures.
You are aware of the cothurnus, or buskin, which raised the actor's heel by two and a half inches; and you think that this must have caused a deformity in the general figure as incommensurate to this height.
Bow Street, admirable for its own peculiar purposes, but utterly incommensurate to the general service of the capital, it was a most dangerous quarter.
Ambitious beyond all bounds, but with a capacity singularly incommensurate with his ambition, he believed that money could accomplish everything.
She must be studied objectively and laboriously as we study children, and partly by men, because their sex must of necessity always remain objective and incommensurate with regard to woman, and therefore more or less theoretical.
In this side of his nature he is foreverincommensurate with and unintelligible to woman, be she even teacher, sister, or mother.
That power, unfortunately, was incommensurate with their good will, and their situation prevented them from rendering the assistance to the crown which they desired.
His Majesty’s Government held that such a political outpost might entail difficulties and responsibilities incommensurate with any benefits which, in the situation created by the Russian assurances, could be gained by it.
