Sentence examples for diminutiveness from inspiring English sources

Researchers have known for 80 years about a symbolic connection between speech and size: back-of-the-mouth vowels like the "o" in "two" make people think of large sizes, whereas people associate front-of-the-mouth vowels like "ee" with diminutiveness.

Given its geographical and demographic diminutiveness and its catastrophic history, Ireland occupies an unexpectedly elevated position in European literature.

(Short people, even if they're alarmingly short, like me, tend to build private worlds--short wives, short friends, short families--that don't remind us of our diminutiveness).

Proust had to outgrow the habits of diminutiveness, without sacrificing a love of nuance and detail, to become himself.

(Ms. Kendrick's wan diminutiveness did not prevent GQ from featuring her in a semi-clothed photo shoot).

Rotoroa Island, off the coast of New Zealand is tiny, at just 82 hectares (200 acres), but don't let its diminutiveness fool you: big things are happening here.

If it were correct, we'd all find gnomes, whose only distinguishing characteristics are diminutiveness, avarice, and a preference for living underground, considerably more plausible than ghosts.