The wedding was a tiny, fraught affair, with only 12 guests, none from David's family.
So, with loaded expectations, I worked with Michael to plan a tiny seaside affair on a shoestring budget — lawn games, handcrafted invitations and a ceremony led by my sister on a jagged Northern California bluff.
Italian Renaissance city-states were tiny affairs compared to modern conurbations, but rivalries between prominent families and gang warfare (think Verona and the Capulets and Montagues) were always simmering under the surface.
However, he would enthuse about the superb engine, a tiny turbo-charged affair that revs all the way to 7,000rpm and is one of the nicest power plants on any car at any price.
His home kitchen for much of the last four decades has been a tiny, windowless Pullman affair with a well-worn range and just enough room to open the refrigerator.
The parade began as a tiny and timid affair in 1970 to commemorate the anniversary of an uprising at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, and has evolved into an enormous, electric dance party in the streets, thundering yesterday from 52nd Street to the Village.
Jesse has written a novel about their affair -- a "tiny best seller," he modestly gloats -- and Paris is the last leg of his European publicity tour.
As a vehicle for a titanic choir, however, it fell short; choral passages, though predictably ravishing, made up only a tiny fraction of an agreeably bombastic affair.
Early in Owen Matthews's epic account of his parents' love affair, he tells a tiny anecdote from his own life, one that expresses something of the scope of his book: aged four and a half, dressed up in a policeman's hat and toting a plastic gun, he was romping around the garden of their Pimlico house and decided to ambush his grandmother.
For a tiny fraction of our budget, our international affairs programs strengthen our security and economy, and demonstrate America's values.
