Sentence examples for rather diminutive from inspiring English sources

Rainier faces a challenge to his rather diminutive power: Charles de Gaulle.

It's not bold or bright, in fact it's rather diminutive, but pretty nonetheless.

"I saw this buxom florist, a kind of Mae West of a woman, waiting on a rather diminutive man.

(It's rather diminutive, and free, so I'd recommend seeing it on your way in or out of the behemoth that is Savage Beauty).

And in comparison to annual festivals in Cannes, Berlin and some other cities, the one on Long Island does seem rather diminutive.

Little Red Quills and Blue Quills often produce fish in surprising numbers when these insects appear, despite their rather diminutive size.

Theater demands a larger scale, or rather, these diminutive creations imperiously demand a smaller one.

Those hankering for the original Dairy Milk taste will have to gorge themselves upon the unchanged Mini Creme Eggs, the rather unsatisfactory diminutive that should only be deployed at an Easter egg hunt for very small children.

12 39 p.m. | Updated The most important man in music at the moment is not a hit-spotting executive in New York or London, but, rather, a diminutive Spanish bureaucrat whose decisions about the breakup of EMI will largely determine the shape of the industry for years to come.

If the French choose Sarkozy, they will be acknowledging that France is in a hell of a mess, and that they need an unusual sort of leader - in this case, a populist with a bit of a Napoleon complex (like the Corsican, he is a hyper-active, rather authoritarian, diminutive outsider) - to sort it out.

"In some ways I missed my era," she said, "because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage, rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness".