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Tag Name "Diminutive" (14)

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I don't use feelings as a diminutive word. I'm trying to take feelings back. I think of everyone on the internet whose response to everything is: #Feelings! This is important, this is real, this is significant! That connects to power, too. Wanting to feel like you have power and control over your life.
Melissa Gira Grant
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Love is a war of lightning, and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, and a genital fire, transformed by delight, slips through the narrow channels of blood to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, to be, and be nothing but light in the dark.
Pablo Neruda
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A couple of things for the not-so-diminutive man: avoid any prints that are large scale, because you will look like the print is wearing you, as opposed to you wearing the print.
Tim Gunn
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The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.
William Shakespeare
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But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so and it never seemed to mind.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.
Jerome Hines
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It is too little to call man a little world Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
John Donne
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At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we're not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that 'diminutive effect.'
Michael Persinger
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.
Vladimir Nabokov
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It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
William Safire
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maybe god is a child ‘s hand)very carefully bring -ing to you and to me(and quite with out crushing)the papery weightless diminutive world with a hole in it out of which demons with wings would be streaming if something had(maybe they couldn’t agree)not happened(and floating- ly int o
e. e. cummings
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When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.
Hoda Kotb