Estemirova's desk was in a tiny room like a corridor with a colleague behind her, so they sat like two people on a bus: for a private chat she took you to the kitchen out the back and gave you tea and poppyseed cake (I still can't believe I'm writing this in the past tense).
In the glow of my desk lamp, a tiny island of light in the darkness where I sit, there is, in principle, no difference between the idea I entertain of Berlin at this moment and the city as it was perceived at the beginning of the last century, the city of which Walter Benjamin wrote in his memoirs, and which, at that time, had seen neither the First nor the Second World War.
Elderly people played mah-jongg on card tables in the street; two young children sat at a small desk doing their homework in a tiny storefront that doubled as their bedroom.
Amid the clutter on her desk is a tiny American flag and a marble paperweight in the shape of a baseball, bearing the inscription "Sometimes you just have to play hardball".
Sweet-natured but wry and rigidly dispassionate, Mr. Zhou works at a tiny wooden desk in a government-provided, third-floor walk-up apartment with unpainted concrete walls.
Behind his large desk in the tiny city hall, he shrugged.
She was dressed in a "thrifted" blue tweed skirt and red knee socks cut from tights and was seated at her desk in her tiny bedroom at home in Oak Park, Ill.
I was in a tiny studio on my own with a desk and a phone at the end of a corridor in a huge exhibition center.
He is sitting one morning in a tiny room in his basement, which has a small desk, a chair and a psychiatrist's couch.
In a tiny inner office, a black.38-caliber pistol lies on the editor's desk near a handful of hollow-tip bullets.
