The quantities of ritalinic acid, amphetamine, and paraxanthene excreted in the bathrooms of a typical college library during exam week alone would be enough to stimulate a small and extremely tired village, yet the metabolic byproducts are wasted out of fear and ignorance.
"This is what this vile president has done to us," Godwin writes, "reduced us all to desperadoes and thieves, made us small and bleak and old and tired".
When we meet in person, she's quietly squashed into a remote corner of a hotel bar, looking tired, small and a little suspicious, and dramatically different to that strident pop star.
This makes Vimcar especially interesting for small companies without a human fleet manager and tired about complicated enterprise solutions".
"I love hearing people laugh," he said, and the small, tired eyes in the moon-shaped face that used to belong to Tony Soprano crinkled.
A decade later, after a few years living in Manhattan, I came back to work at the Telegraph and the tower felt smaller and a little tired – upstaged by all the unfamiliar new skyscrapers that had sprouted in my absence.
Stumbling out of bed, weak and tired, I grasped the air searching for a small black kit.
Small talk with fellow rallyers at gas stations had been replaced by waves and tired nods.
Small Talk's tired and cold, wetter than an otter's pocket and holed-up in a shed on the Isle of Skye.
