Nor is the local Fringe Festival, a tiny affair compared with similar events in Edinburgh, Scotland; Adelaide, Australia and Edmonton, Albertaa, which are on many people's cultural radar.
The polls ran from the vast and complex to tiny local affairs in which most voters knew each other, and which might have seemed familiar to the Greek city states that pioneered the idea of citizens choosing their own leaders more than two millennia ago.
But making the relatively tiny international affairs budget bear a disproportionately big share of necessary cuts would be fooling ourselves.
The wedding was a tiny, fraught affair, with only 12 guests, none from David's family.
So, with loaded expectations, I worked with Michael to plan a tiny seaside affair on a shoestring budget — lawn games, handcrafted invitations and a ceremony led by my sister on a jagged Northern California bluff.
However, he would enthuse about the superb engine, a tiny turbo-charged affair that revs all the way to 7,000rpm and is one of the nicest power plants on any car at any price.
His home kitchen for much of the last four decades has been a tiny, windowless Pullman affair with a well-worn range and just enough room to open the refrigerator.
The parade began as a tiny and timid affair in 1970 to commemorate the anniversary of an uprising at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, and has evolved into an enormous, electric dance party in the streets, thundering yesterday from 52nd Street to the Village.
Battles are grueling affairs pitting tiny hunters against fast, feral beasts.
As a relatively tiny player in global affairs, New Zealand hasn't been made to do as much horrible stuff at America's behest as say, Australia.
