I know he's not very tall, but diminutive seemed a bit harsh.
He was a paunchy man of diminutive height, a bit over five feet, with a vain streak.
On "Hive Mind," the quintet makes the individual labor of instrumentation gorgeously plain; guitar and bass and percussion are not just parachuted in but coaxed out, made to gradually surface, as they wrap around the vocals of Syd, who is lissome but not in the least bit diminutive.
Looking pink-skinned, diminutive and a little bit wrinkly, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg appeared in City Hall's Blue Room on Wednesday morning to deliver one of the year's more adorable bundles of news: the way we name our babies now.
Both Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are often depicted as physically imposing, and so putting the skin on the diminutive Torbjorn is a bit rough.
Given the club's diminutive size, it's a bit like being in a laser disco snow globe.
Standing below the jagged peaks of the Chiricahua Mountains, behind dark glasses and beneath a broad straw hat, the diminutive Gordon looks just a bit like an ant herself.
Deep inside the huddle of giants, the diminutive Van Gundy thinks for a bit, then unleashes a vehement plea for his players to get it together, only to see them fail time and again to rescue the outcome.
He is said to be "a kindly, worried little man," and the diminutive marks him as a bit player: an impression confirmed by "The Looking-Glass War" (1965), where he is granted a wretched and thankless minor part, pulling agents out of a job near the East German border, and leaving another man at the mercy of the foe.
Twain was cheating a bit: all nouns with the diminutive suffix –chen are neuter, whether they refer to boys, girls or bread rolls (Brötchen).
