Professor Desio was "a tiny, frail-appearing man" who "had only moderate climbing experience but was known as an organizer par excellence," Galen Rowell, an American photojournalist who attempted to climb K2 in 1975, wrote in his book, "In The Throne Room of the Mountain Gods".
It looks a bit like an episode of the Muppet Show but set inside the Little Shop Of Horrors with a tiny, innocent, frail kitten wandering around.
Because look at this photo of a kangaroo holding his dead kangaroo wife, a photo taken by Australian Evan Switzer, a photo that went viral due to the heartstrings it collectively pulled, just look at it first beat as his tiny frail kangaroo boy looks sadly on, and go: this is a sad photo, a photo full of despair, animals expressing human grief.
The struggle of this tiny, frail baby, just three months old and clinging to life by a thread, moved me to tears.
The Bergen version routinely won games by twenty-plus goal margins, with the tiny, frail dribbling wizard either scoring or making most of them.
How many intruders are tiny, frail women in brightly colored coats?
Vivien Leigh, the tiny, frail actress from the Himalaya Mountains who won enduring fame for her fiery film performance as Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," died Saturday in London.
Even then, of course, Cunningham was frail – a tiny creature curled up in a wheelchair but still with that sense of erectness and poise that makes dancers unmistakeable.
But also because, at every step, in every paragraph, the consistent beauty of Higgins's prose – "The body of a shrew, dead at the path-side, a tiny packet of fur and frail bone, the bright black drupelet of an open eye" – is mobilised to the urgent, violent, adrenalised needs of the thriller plot.
You couldn't fail to have goose pimples, sitting in Westminster Hall watching a tiny, stocky yet far from frail old lady walk in wearing a vivid canary costume, accompanied by a taller, older man with that slightly mocking smile that always seems to hover about the duke's lips.
