Or that in "Hairspray," under the watchful parenting of John Waters, he created two solid acts of dancing with the tiny vocabulary of popular dance steps extant in 1962.
A random, rainy afternoon when, at 2-and-a-half, after a long silence, out of the clear blue and apropos of nothing, she looked up at me, smiled and uttered two words I had no idea she'd added to her tiny vocabulary.
Mr Kubrick anticipated a world where a tiny spoken vocabulary, and even fewer written words, were all you needed to get by.
Their vocabularies are tiny.
There are some small alterations, some new names on the lists of suggested famous people, perhaps a tiny amount more emphasis on vocabulary, but essentially the aims and content of the new key stage 1 curriculum are very much like the old.
Every time a Jacky O'Shaughnessy gazes out unapologetically from an ad, or Vivienne Westwood casts a Leslie Winer, ageing gets paired with vitality, and our visual vocabulary grows just that tiny bit more.
Moved by what he called "the ever-present transforming principle" of rendering "things seen," he was aided by a nearly photographic eye and an amazing vocabulary of jabs, slashes, scribbles, tiny circles; a tonal spectrum ranging from pale grainy gray to solid silver-black, and an unerring sensitivity to the lighting effects of even the tiniest patch of blank paper.
British comedy in the US can get away with accents the Americans find funny, or out-of-reach regional vocabulary – but not, say, the relatively tiny catchment area for jokes made by Alan Partridge that revolve around Sue Cook.
On the corny side, the reddish-brown surface of "Lucky Charms" bears a vocabulary of signs and amulets, from a tiny eight ball to a horseshoe and a four-leaf clover.
They appear on a tiny, teetering, lopsided planet, and they demand wholly new vocabularies of description for reality at every scale.
Tire designers have a whole vocabulary of their own: the tread pattern is the watershed and the tiny depressions or cuts in the surface are sipes.
