tininess


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Synonyms for tininess

the property of being very small in size

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And just as Nancy feels simultaneously "the two senses of that vastness and this tininess" (78), so too do we comprehend the broader public upheaval of World War I alongside the private tragedies within the Ramsay family.
He watched her walk away, the black dress hugging the tininess of her waist, the amplitude of her curves.
Where once a sporty saloon had varying degrees of athleticism accompanied by some rough edges and tininess, that brittle edge has been traded in for the sort of cosseting insulation you'd expect to find in a Merc or the like.
There are lots of degrees of tininess that we're not aware of.
Yet that might not be the case either: Hellinga also notes that in some exemplars for incunables, including the Oxford edition of Rufinus's Symbola apostolorum in 1478, some of the marks were very discreet--just "small strokes," crosses, "squiggles," "little dashes between lines" or mere sets of "three or four small dots at the beginning of the marked-off page." (37) If the copy was to be returned to its owner, then the printer could not make too great a mess.38 So the tininess of the marks in HM 136 does not preclude their use for setting the text by forme.
The few discrete artifacts included occasionally seem uneasily bent to the aims of the show's conceit: Among these are Karin Campbell's Saint Thecla, 2010, an accomplished but thematically inexplicable suite of four almost identical photorealist paintings of a metallic bust; and Jessica Rylan's NanoQMA, 2010, a scale model of the museum nestled within the little QMA building on the Panorama whose microscopic tininess (four hundredths of a millimeter wide) was achievable only in collaboration with the Laser Zentrum Hannover, a research institute set up by the distinctly un-nimble-sounding German State Ministry of Trade, Industry, Technology, and Transportation.
Now their tininess enables them to hide anywhere they choose.
"Tininess is the point," he writes of Darwin, just as legal technicality is Lincoln's point.
tininess. A lot of worlds brought forth at the feet of the creator.
So Ellen Page and all her tininess has been nominated for the biggest award an individual actress can get - and she's barely 20.