It seems like nothing, but slowly this tiny germ of a song blossomed into an entire folk-opera, not to mention one of the best albums of 2010.
Mr. Soderbergh understood that all he had to do was show some finesse and he could get away with this low-blood-pressure heist picture, keeping the tiny germ of a story about hitting the casinos.
For me, it's generally the case that an idea for a cartoon springs from a tiny germ that I keep adding to until it builds into something that slowly begins to make a semblance of sense.
This sentence from "Tinkers," by Paul Harding, shows how taking time to find the right verb pays off: "The forest had nearly wicked from me that tiny germ of heat allotted to each person…." Wick is an evocative word that nicely gets across the essence of a more commonplace verb like sucked or drained.
"We have an innate disgust towards germs, these tiny near-invisible things, in the same way that we have an innate fear that helps us keep away from large predators.
"Tooth germs" – the tiny buds that appear before a tooth grows – were developed by the Japan-based team, according to a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
With germ warfare, tiny quantities could be enough to inflict tens of thousands of casualties.The other difference is that there is no mistaking a chemical attack when it happens, because its victims die almost instantly.
As added protection, the Handler's rubber and plastic surfaces are impregnated with tiny particles of silver to kill germs that land on the device itself.
A person who had only a tiny amount, he said, would dilute the germs with filler to increase the number of letters that could be sent.
You'll feel a fizz while the tiny bubbles scrub away stains and kill germs.
