small wonder

And small wonder that he wanted to write a memoir stripped of the form’s obvious scaffolding and joints: no declarations of trauma, little effort to make his life exemplify something bigger.

Small wonder then, that executives at European carmakers have been distinctly lukewarm about the EU’s initiative.

It’s small wonder fiction’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, faced the savage Hound of the Baskervilles amid the nocturnal mists of a mire.

Small wonder, then, that local ghost tours frequent the place, or that some area residents claim that the homes erected over the graves of the dead are haunted.

Small wonder that many human cultures imagine a wander in the wilderness, literal or metaphorical, as pivotal to one’s initiation into maturity.