The phrase "a small but dramatic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is minor in size or scale but has a significant impact or effect.
Example: "The presentation included a small but dramatic change in the design that captivated the audience."
Alternatives: "a minor yet striking" or "a slight but impactful".
When Arafat was asked whether Operation Grapes of Wrath, the recent Israeli offensive against the Hezbollah, in which some one hundred and sixty Lebanese civilians were killed, has helped or hurt Peres with Israeli public opinion, he replied instantly, with a small but dramatic wave of his hand, "Helped.
The reference was a small but nevertheless dramatic addition to a passage that has largely appeared unchanged for months.
He gets another chance to work the territory of the unhappy man trying to right the foundering ship that his life has become in All Is Bright, a small but thoroughly engaging dramatic comedy that teams him with his virtual opposite in temperament, Paul Rudd.
Mr. Van Valkenburgh's designs, with two major commissions in New York -- a one-mile stretch of Brooklyn waterfront and the small but dramatic Teardrop Park in Battery Park City, which will have slabs of rock and a wall of ice -- celebrate landscape as a living thing, shaped by wind and water, and the people who inhabit it.
In this small but dramatic work, heavily influenced by Rubens, a man's aggressive embrace catches his female companion off guard as a musician and a dog look on.
But it is vitally important to distinguish the many service members afflicted with brain injury or post-traumatic stress who largely internalize their suffering from the small but dramatic minority who commit violent acts.
Time has passed and, like the Drapers, we are older now, and like them too our lives are still small but dramatic, with moments of clarity and regular shock at the volume of ad breaks.
Create small but dramatic arrangements by adding ferns and light, long-stemmed flowers to trumpet vases or parfait glasses.
A small man with dramatic colouring but rumpled, beaten-down, somehow, with a striking air of exhaustion and sadness, Ward has been in the trenches a long time, and I believe him when he says how much he cares.
Soon enough, our issue and region of choice were brought to the forefront by the shocking deaths of American diplomats in Libya and the rapid spread of small-scale but dramatic demonstrations outside US embassies throughout the Muslim world.
The two of them were working on a stage set for a small dramatic production, and they hoped that Balmond could give them some advice.
