His characters share a deliberate sort of pettiness, not just a smallness of drive, but a smallness in the impotent, baffled way they greet obstacles.
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That smallness -- no slight too small to respond to!
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"To be in touch with our smallness," the nun says.
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Within the suffocating smallness of this setting, quiet, flawless observations dazzle.
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But that gesture of compassion, despite its smallness, signifies something big.
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One of the best things about this movie is its smallness.
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" So there's a marvellous smallness to "The Way We Live Now.
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Mr. Solondz exposes its smallness to the harsh glare of satire.
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The literature of sequoias is, counterintuitively, also a celebration of smallness.
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Our relative smallness and disproportionate destructiveness is elucidated again and again.
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But that smallness might be precisely what makes them so potentially huge.
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Another factor is the party's sheer smallness in the House of Commons.
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I remember his physical presence, so vast compared with my toddler smallness.
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It was a sad, sudden realization, this feeling of smallness, of insignificance.
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But the smallness of the stage should be a help for voters.
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I think people want us to rise above the pettiness, the smallness.
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The state's smallness virtually puts its politicians on first-name terms with residents.
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In modern wars, the very smallness of the seals made them ideal booty.
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This tragedy really puts the smallness of our politics in perspective, doesn't it?
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The smallness of Earth, the stillness of the moon, the limitlessness of space.
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There's a high, from the logistical boldness it requires, the smallness it engenders.
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I spend too much time in parts of the world trapped by smallness.
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In a way, the dog's smallness also has a mystical largeness in it.
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And that begins with an overwhelming sense of smallness in a very big world.
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Yet sometimes, if we're lucky, that smallness allows us to experience something truly amazing.
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Or do we close ourselves down: a small island, trapped in its own smallness?
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Where the community's smallness once felt like an embrace, now it felt like suffocation.
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This, ultimately, is the core of the smallness and viciousness of the Strzok affair.
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The candidate who claims to do everything big showed the smallness of his thinking tonight.
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Noah adeptly skewers the smallness of racism, but he doesn't see through the larger lie.
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Republicans' smallness and hypocrisy merged with President Trump's lies and childish self-obsession — mission accomplished.
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The smallness of the global village soon began to magnify differences as well as similarities.
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It felt like one of the early debates last summer in its static and smallness.
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That's why he wanted the photos — to capture the Earth's smallness and vulnerability in the cosmos.
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This argument is in fact a textbook example of the cynicism and smallness inherent in realism.
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Noah adeptly skewers the smallness of the racism, but he doesn't see through the larger lie.
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This smallness leans into the "wagon train to the stars" conceit of the space opera genre.
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On the other hand, the smallness of the car enlarges the sense of each guest's talent.
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That distance and smallness is ironic detachment, sure, but there are still actual displays of vulnerability.
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Her parents live in New Jersey, so she doesn't mind the relative smallness of her closet.
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Smallness oozed from his petulant pout; it was all that would fit between those pursed lips.
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It will be the same science that defeats it and makes that smallness feel safe again.
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Small children are especially vulnerable to dehydration for two basic reasons rooted in their essential smallness.
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These writers — who stay interested in smallness, strangeness and the obscure — have a way of lasting.
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This is in large part because the components are approaching a fundamental limit of smallness: the atom.
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Some of this can be explained by the smallness of the Idaho economy compared to the nation.
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The lyrical detail is symbolic and literal, grappling with the vastness of life while acknowledging our smallness.
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I marvel at the smallness of my body, which I have not noticed in a long time.
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I remember finally feeling convinced, and perhaps on some level vindicated, too, that this smallness was him.
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When they do just that, they will denounce the duplicity of Trump and the smallness of Sessions.
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What that approach to life yields is a smallness with which we are not accustomed in our presidents.
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Mr. Fitch's gripping production of a trimmed version of the opera made a virtue of the space's smallness.
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"The main source of the profitableness of established banking is the smallness of the requisite capital," he wrote.
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And yet, this very smallness is what makes New York State Rifle so dangerous to the consensus framework.
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The league is going insane in there, and the corrosive and grandiose smallness within those walls is toxic.
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Part of me is still hanging on to those old, ridiculous beliefs about beauty and smallness and princess brides.
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The biennale's claim to its smallness is defined by its scale, as curators Alex Urso and Maess Anand explained.
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The smallness of the markets is one reason that insurers say the markets aren't a great bet for them.
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"Arrogance" is a word used by people who've had their own smallness magnified by the presence of something large.
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But these are adamantly not the sort of pictures intended to emphasize man's smallness in the face of nature.
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At once soaring and torrential, the altar insists on your smallness, your next-to-nothingness in the redemptive drama.
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Even the vastness of Canada's Arctic, however, provided no relief from the comparative smallness of the country's political world.
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On the other hand, we need to grasp the smallness of this achievement in the scheme of Jewish history.
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You don't listen to "Holocene" to feel hopeless or small, but rather to feel spiritually bigger than your smallness.
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Each of these performance gestures constitutes a tiny act of bodily resistance whose efficacy depends precisely on its smallness.
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We fear the collective because we cannot control it, because it is a reminder of our own smallness and insignificance.
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He repeatedly suggested that Trump's reportedly small hands were a sign of, uh, a smallness in other parts of the President.
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When he announced his presidential run in 2007, Obama decried the "the smallness of our politics" and vowed to reform Washington.
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So, the smallness of Ben's appearance in the episode suggests how little Cole cares about his ex-wife's latest love interest.
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Another important development that goes unaddressed is that we live in a time of "bigness," yes, but also, confusingly, debilitating smallness.
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There's something about being forced to look upward that seems to convey both elevation and a sense of your own smallness.
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Claire Underwood's own "smallness" smacks her in the face when she resigns from her ambassadorship and reluctantly campaigns for Frank's reelection.
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But the state's famous smallness may also be contributing to our situation by amplifying the persistent—and tragic—stigma around mental health.
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Instead the anniversary is being observed by an odd smallness of spirit and by semi-public squabbling among the country's secretive elites.
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It's a small world with small objectives and small actions, but within all that smallness it feels anything but cramped or restricted.
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In this assemblage work Whitten cultivated a deliberate smallness, an intimacy that calls for long stretches of looking to puzzle them together.
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The common thread seems to be a sense of smallness or underdog status: nobody calls a jowly dictator or heavyweight boxer "feisty".
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The world's smallness facilitates that feeling of mastery—there's no in-game map because the whole game will fit in your head.
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This is why Korean girls are often seen posing in photos with objects placed along their jawline to prove their faces' smallness.
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Each small photograph is its own contained world, its own perfect object — and each one speaks eloquently of regrets, roaming, waiting, smallness.
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Astrophysicists are forever toggling between feelings of bigness and smallness, of hubris and humility, depending on whether they're looking out or within.
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But despite its smallness, it is still permanent, and I have in my hand the pen to sign my name into it.
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In many of King's works, the juxtaposition of movement and stillness plays an equally important part as that of smallness and immensity.
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This is a particle that was proposed 30 years ago to explain the smallness of the observed electric dipole moment of the neutron.
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Heuristics help us survive, but they guide us to smallness: They make us biased to the things we're already predisposed to believe in.
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This weekend, people around the world will experience that feeling of smallness, thanks to the Lyrid meteor shower that peaks on April 22.
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At the album's heart is "Aequilibria," a piece with rich contrast and surprising balance between spaciousness — conveyed through airy fifths — and knotty smallness.
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Most colleges want to enroll only a certain number of students every year, particularly when smallness, intimacy and community are what they're selling.
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In this time of tribal smallness, never shrug at the assault from on high on the American idea, flawed as it has always been.
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In baring his smallness, the billionaire New York developer managed to collapse the differences between his gilded life and that of white Middle America.
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But as she does take after take, the men behind the glass grow increasingly cruel, and the smallness of the booth closes in on her.
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"I think people want us to rise above the pettiness, the smallness — they want us to be big, bold, ambitious for this country," O'Rourke said.
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But the feeling of smallness in modern guest rooms may be less the fault of closets than of the fact that they are actually shrinking.
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The fundamental smallness of what actually took place here relative to the enormity of the narratives being hung on it creates a somewhat strange situation.
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In "Birth," that one fingerprint to which Rabbia referred is a tiny dot of bright, white paint that, for all its smallness, anchors an entire cosmos.
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Maybe he could feel just a little bit of shame at his petty grievances and the incredible smallness he brings to the office of the presidency.
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"They underestimated our smallness -- we told them try sleeping in a dark room with a mosquito," he told the Kenya Television Network, welcoming the court decision.
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The sublime, if we take a little trip with Immanuel Kant, is the word we give to the recognition of our own smallness in the universe.
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As Angela made her way through the chaos into the HSM room, our perspective climbed high above her, suggesting her smallness within the Dark Army apparatus.
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If there is no explicit conflict, there is a quieter message about the smallness of human life in the universe and its outsize capacity for mischief.
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There is, however, a magic to smallness: Show me two manspreaders wasting a seat on a crowded subway, and I will gleefully squeeze in between them.
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Efforts such as these emergency refuges exemplify that smallness does not equate with simplicity; rather, these structures can confront even greater design challenges than gargantuan buildings.
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Shot in classic widescreen, Mr Cooper's film captures both the grandeur of nature and the smallness of these few characters, emphasising their powerlessness over the natural world.
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He shoots the hand as if it could see, frequently animating it scuttling on the ground to emphasize its smallness and its vulnerability in a hostile world.
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This year, more than ever, the biggest stars are weaving smallness into their gargantuan shows, from Kanye West's floating stage to Rihanna's runway to Justin Bieber's couch.
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"Few failed to exclaim at the smallness of man and his handiwork as seen from this great distance," The Times reported when the Empire State Building opened.
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The smallness of the peninsula has a way of clarifying the high stakes of any war: Millions of people are vulnerable to being massacred by either side.
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That openness and transparency have helped make him a particular favorite with younger Americans, who have little patience for the smallness and contrivances of today's public debate.
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While there are some superstitions linking hand size to strength of character, a far more common association is that small hands are an indication of, um, smallness elsewhere.
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It was a small, plaintive, lonely sound, not spoken or sung but still audible, thanks to the force of O'Hara's rendering—the smallness was that of Cathy's life.
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Opinion Columnist I wanted a sweeping repudiation of President Trump's ugly politics, an undeniable statement that this country is bigger than his smallness and brighter than his darkness.
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Its relative smallness of scale — a scant 157 pages, cut to fit in the palm of the hand — is deceptive, itself the mark of a supremely confident writer.
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Lamenting the "smallness of our politics" and that "Washington is broken" were characteristic Obama pronouncements — critiques of a system but not of any actors, certainly not the opposing party.
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Sword Of Destiny suffers endlessly by comparison to Ang Lee's groundbreaking 2000 film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for the comparative smallness of its vision, its visuals, and its budget.
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Few games since EverQuest have given me a true sense of smallness in a strange world, both in terms of scope and in the darkness of the world's mechanics.
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Cascades of tiny stanzas in "The Whip" and "Two Ways of Looking in a Mirror" evoke the smallness of the self peering out of a vast expanse of blankness.
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It uses its smallness to its advantage, compressing down the sprawling map of a Castlevania game down into a handful of screens; just enough to get its point across.
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Mather, who's also known as "The Tick Guy" (obviously), runs the university's TickEncounter Resource Center, which demonstrates the smallness of ticks by placing them on a poppy seed bagel.
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To walk into any cavernously large space, to tour a cathedral or factory or cave, is to feel overwhelmed by your own smallness in comparison to what surrounds you.
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The planet has gone quiet, so quiet you can almost hear it whirling around the sun, feel its smallness, picture for once the loneliness and fleetingness of being alive.
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And what I felt recalling Radar and Stan, with the benefit of some distance, was not disgust, though they were gross, but the tragic smallness of what they needed and still could not get, the smallness of their need next to the need that drove others not so very far away, the people whose stories I read daily in the news, to martyrdom and murder in conflicts that stretched into other lifetimes.
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As I settle into the plush seat of my sleeper car, a game development student from Australia sitting across from me, I feel an intense sense of my own smallness.
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And perhaps this full moon, more than any other should serve as a reminder of our smallness, like it did for me 20 years ago standing outside with my uncle.
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People rarely use the term to describe a melodrama made by a straight man; even when "camp" is meant as a compliment, it contains an insult, suggesting a musty smallness.
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Other work has shown that so-called front-vowel sounds, like the "i" in "mil," evoke smallness and lightness, while back-vowel sounds, as in "mal," evoke heaviness and bigness.
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The most popular idea, at present, is that the smallness of the dark energy is a kind of rare accident, which happens to occur in our particular corner of the multiverse.
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It was made in a bedroom, with headphones, and you can sense some of that smallness in the meditative, uncomplicated unfolding of tracks like the 12 and a half minute opener.
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I had a greater appreciation of our fleeting place in history, our smallness on this earth and how much there is left to discover about the places we think we know.
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I'll remember how, once upon a time, I lived inside a girl's body that was often abused by a much older, much larger man, and instantly the magic of smallness stops.
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CALGARY, Alberta — There is a particularly quaint element to Canada — our smallness, our politeness, our insularity — that makes many people, including many Canadians, assume the best about our country and ourselves.
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This conception of the absolute smallness of the individual in the face of nuclear fire does not fit into the way that those games understand players or want players to understand themselves.
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But smallness is relative: even the slimmed-down BFR would be bigger than the Saturn V that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon, and which remains the biggest rocket ever flown.
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They look good, fit snugly, and sound great Fit is always the most underrated aspect of sound and the thing that makes the Nocs attractive is their almost ethereal lightness and smallness.
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The results are acts of artistic humility, man recognizing his smallness in the face of natural forces so great they cannot be resisted or overcome, but must rather be acknowledged and respected.
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Nanotecture is divided into five chapters: Micro, Mini, Midi, Macro, and Maxi, with the "smallness" of the space defined by the size of the building in relation to its residents or visitors.
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If you are so inclined, you can look at the smallness of all this and see an indictment of baseball's world tournament—no one cares, it doesn't matter, everyone involved only barely bothering.
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Writing about celestial bodies like constellations can help create a sense of intimacy, as if by looking skyward you can be drawn closer together by your mutual smallness against the immensity of galaxies.
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We should celebrate our smallness in the face of a vast, infinite universe by participating in the very human experience of staring out at the moon tonight and thinking of our place on Earth.
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What struck me most of all, however, was the smallness and pettiness of the evening, starting with Trump ignoring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's outstretched hand and ending with her tearing up the President's speech.
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Zandi's talents are perhaps most distinctive in subtle portraits like "Transparencies": His father though a tall mancontained his tallness, carriedhimself in himself, like a jar, a small jar made of just glass and smallness.
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Tracks like "Fly High"—an uncanny ballad about the humanity's smallness—share a little bit of anxious DNA with Robinson's music, though the drops are a little more conventional and a little more sugary.
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If there's one thing that fans of the first film will miss, it's the cavernous architecture of the original film's hotel interior, which served to further isolate and emphasize the smallness of the central characters.
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There are deeper issues — with the story delivery, the overall flat voice performances, the feeling of "smallness" in Andromeda's ostensibly new and unexplored galaxy — that even the most extensive patch won't be able to address.
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The photograph is notable for embodying two seemingly contrasting themes: Humanity's tremendous achievement at sending its first ambassadors around the moon and back; and the smallness of our species in the vastness of the universe.
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The sequel is a smaller film in multiple respects, but the filmmakers haven't set out to make a virtue out of its smallness, instead trying to ape the first film's grandeur on a tighter budget.
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Beyond the procedural concerns and policy doubts, however, we are distressed by the president's extraordinary belittling of the United States, the smallness of his vision, his inclination to retreat behind walls, his dearth of empathy.
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This year-long format transforms the smallness of the space into an ethical directive to think carefully and thoroughly about its shifting contents — fast conclusions are neutered by the knowledge of more parts to come.
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The town of the title is deftly sketched, both in its colors—you can't always tell where the gray of the ocean ends and the winter air begins—and in the smallness of its scale.
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What many people mean when they say they've been humbled is that they've supposedly been reminded for a moment of their human smallness in the face of some gigantic, mysterious force: art, agents, academy voters.
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The team couldn't find a shortstop, and they had to weather Steinbrenner's endless firing of managers and pitching coaches, his petty secret war on Dave Winfield, and myriad other consequences of their owner's personal smallness.
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The sheer scale of death at the church in Texas, the murder of so many children and the smallness of the community will make it harder for them, and will perhaps be a stronger test of faith.
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" Peter Sillem, a former journalist who shifted careers last year at age 50 and started a gallery for contemporary photography in Frankfurt, said he was attracted to the fair for its "smallness, its focus and its selectivity.
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Product cultivated a cutesy smallness, as if the songs were chintzy electronic wind-up toys; Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides features longer songs, larger and more whomping hooks, wider and chillier aural spaces, a sweeping emotionalism.
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I remember the majestic horses, the smallness of the coffin and, for a second, turning around to see the undersides of the crowd's glum chins as they looked at the last they'd ever see of the People's Princess.
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" Just after Vile confesses feelings of smallness and inferiority—Barnett answers with an affirmation, "I cherish my intercontinental friendships/We talk it over continental breakfast/In a hotel in east bumble-wherever/Somewhere on the sphere, around here.
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The antidote to what we see in politics today / Is not more meanness, pettiness, smallness, and hatred / It is treating one another with civility and decency / And staying focused on the big things / We want to accomplish together 3.
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Indeed, "microaggression" is a ridiculous word; it's a linguistic feat to combine such discordant concepts as "micro" and "aggression," to coin a term so self-contradictory that the injustices it identifies can then be dismissed on account of their smallness.
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Swarm Technologies is one of several companies looking to populate low Earth orbit with communications satellites, setting itself apart with the sheer smallness of its devices — and of course with the notoriety of having defied the FCC and earned a fine.
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Neither of these ideas are offensive in themselves, but in a context where there is seemingly nothing that cannot be encompassed by a bon mot from Will Rogers, Civilization VI starts to suffer from a sense of smallness and small-mindedness.
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Though a sudden shift in weather meant visibility was near zero when I ascended, it was still worth it for the overwhelming sense of smallness I felt, standing on the edge of the mountain and squinting into a white abyss.
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He showed me his inscribed first edition of "My Bondage and My Freedom" and told me he knew all about the size of Frederick Douglass's penis and the smallness of the vaginas of the white women with whom he had affairs.
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The director Jérémy Clapin "shoots the hand as if it could see, frequently animating it scuttling on the ground to emphasize its smallness and its vulnerability in a hostile world," Teo Bugbee wrote in her review for The New York Times.
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The extreme bird's eye view used in the game's Factory prologue is not conducive to us best protecting 2B by dodging enemies, or to enjoying the fluidity of the player-controlled character's movements—but it does stress her smallness, her vulnerability.
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Because the smallness of M-dwarf stars makes it easier to detect much smaller, rocky planets passing in front of them, they are the intended targets for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a planet-finding mission scheduled to launch next year.
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Mr. Cumming, who won a Tony Award as the satanic M.C. in the 1998 revival of "Cabaret," here provides canny glimpses of the sad smallness of a man who believes he can buy love and respect with purchases from Tiffany and Hermes.
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By the end of the call, we end up in the same familiar place: bone-deep weariness as we are confronted, once more, with the enormity of the challenges before us, and with the smallness we feel in the face of them.
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Circumstances and cultural and personal streets divided Miss Jones from both her freedom and her bane of rutted 'smallness' of a wild spirit living confined in a struggling California blue-collar town — in a way miles from nowhere yet with a clutch of family and friends.
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Broderick gives a wonderfully nebbishy performance, and the filmmakers do a fine job of using visual cues to define the smallness of his world — like the recurring image of his automatic seat belt, slowly wrapping tightly around his body every time he gets into his car.
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Land art was inherently anti-institutional — an artistic expression of man's smallness in the face of expressly inhospitable settings — whereas art parks are, ultimately, curated: meant to attract visitors into what its critics say are simulacra of museums, a partially controlled setting that happens to be out of doors.
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Indeed, very close to the essence of all the monotheistic faiths is the proposition that fear of God (not cowering terror but awe, reverence, a sense of humanity's smallness) is the only fear worth feeling; and that to live, appropriately, in that sort of fear can drive away all other kinds.
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Billy Lynn is built to be small — the performances are tiny and subtle (though newcomer Joe Alwyn is tremendous as the title character), the script is nuanced, and Lee loves close-ups, almost to a fault — and to use that smallness to hint at the depth of its characters' emotions.
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For me, the show had a pleasurable mouthfeel from the beginning, not in its largeness but in its smallness, its glory in the details—the oppressiveness of beige Upper East Side apartments; the in-laws and outsiders sharing advice; the man at a benefit throwing a fit about the butter being insufficiently warm.
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THE president-elect's press conference on January 11th touched on fake news, the F-35 combat jet, beautiful military bands, the incredible smallness of hidden cameras in hotel rooms, Jack Ma, a Chinese tycoon, the Miss Universe contest, a very, very, very amazing property developer in Dubai, and Rhona, his personal assistant, among other things.
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For those of us who have long been frustrated precisely by the smallness of those differences, the narrowness of the G.O.P. policy debate, it's a particularly staggering result: A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely to a candidate who regards much of the conservative vision with indifference bordering on contempt.
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The creators of "Thirtysomething" always said it was a show about the small moments of life, and it was this smallness, now in my second watching, that made me understand why I'd gotten so attached in the first place: close-up expressions, close-up emotion, tiny gestures, the recognition of each character as a sub-archetype of the main yuppie archetype.
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Even with the myriad of allegations stacked against the Miramax co-founder and former co-chairman of The Weinstein Company, Weinstein's allusions to righteous fortitude tell us everything we know about men like him: that the powerful will unfailingly measure the immensity of the self, and the belief in one's own influence, against the smallness of others, no matter how much suffering it may cause.
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He used his platform at the UN to toss the usual red meat to his conservative base -- opposition to abortion and socialism, a staunch defense of guns and religion (though he failed to mention his 2017 executive order suspending entry into the United States for citizens of several Muslim-majority countries) -- while recasting American values away from promise and equality and toward smallness, fear, and paranoia disguised as patriotism.
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" The message was broadly the same as his announcement speech in 2007, when, standing before a crowd of thousands that had gathered at the Old State Capitol building, Obama cited "the smallness of our politics" and decried "the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big problems.
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