But then, a tweet is notable above all else for its smallness.
Her biggest struggle was getting out of DeLisle, a place which for years she hated, for its smallness, its racism.
And yet it seemed to me as striking for its smallness, just 160 feet of herringbone tile from end to end.
But in the context of the show, it was a valuable counterweight, a moment powerful precisely for its smallness and near-stillness, rather than its glorious heat or bounding momentum.
Sarah Palin's big new life is remarkable for its smallness.
MacLeod's literary oeuvre is notable for its smallness.
"The greatness of his life was open, yet he longed to communicate its smallness also".
V. S. Naipaul once observed that Mr. Narayan was interested not so much in the social changes that came to his archetypal Indian town as in "the lesser life that goes on below: small men, small schemes, big talk, limited means: a life so circumscribed that it appears whole and unviolated, its smallness never a subject for wonder, though India itself is felt to be vast".
A little suburban world that was enlarged by its smallness, close and intimate, lit for a dark sultry evening.
The message of its smallness seems to be this then: perhaps it ought still to remain a shameful secret, one from which we cannot but flinch, one that we would rather not record at all.
But its smallness, barely able to contain the rush of outsize feelings, only makes this extraordinary moment all the more touching.
