But when Benton's attention was firmly fixed on the accomplishment of something comparatively trivial, his dogged, stubborn, and unyielding earnestness drew him into making efforts of which the disproportion to the result aimed at was rather droll.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
The extraordinary feature of such belief is the disproportion between its vividness and the direct evidence for it.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
Her sensitive perception of beauty and grandeur was so much greater than her power of grasping and comprehending them, that her poor little mind became oppressed and bewildered by the disproportion between the vividness with which she received new impressions, and her ability for seizing their meaning.
"My Little Lady"
Eleanor Frances Poynter