Sentence examples for of small men from inspiring English sources

But these two performances are a matched set -- studies in the quiet megalomania of small men.

But history is full of small men wielding big power (Mr Welch is no giant, though no Napoleon either).

"Snow White" was finished in a panic, and years later Disney was still fretting over the shortcomings of his heroine — not her ethical decision to hang out with a large group of small men, but the wobbles in her construction.

As you drove through the dim streets, you'd see few people until, at the edge of the light cast by a stray street lamp, there would appear a clump of small men with big rifles — or else a single sentry, trying to blend in with the foliage.

I was lured in with the promise of small men in weird clothes and those bastards didn't deliver.

Then once she escapes her clutches, she's taken in by a group of small men who force her to do their housework and bidding.

The bus driver joked that he should charge me for an extra ticket as the penguin was the size of small man.

When asked how much sleep one needs, Napoleon Bonaparte, patron saint of Small Man Syndrome, recommended "six [hours] for a man, seven for a woman, eight for a fool".

But Lewis's speed rivals that of smaller men.

It is a large drawing of a body, with a vertical array of smaller men inside it.

Meanness and poverty of spirit are the attributes of smaller men, whose inner lives are stunted, as they would be in a fairy tale.