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The smallness of the play also can't disguise the somewhat uneven treatment of its characters.
As Joaquin points out, our predisposition for smallness stands in the way of progress.
"The infinite smallness," she says, "is part of the infinite."
house from her smallness; I look at the house from my grandeur.
"I relish my smallness. I really like my smallness" - Actress Jane Horrocks (pictured), 5ft 4in.
The narrative is punctuated by Joe's vivid dreams of himself as a superhero but it is the repetitive smallness of Joe's life that is the most fascinating side of the story.
For me that's a step too far" Baroness Warsi, former chairman of the Conservative Party, switches from Leave to Remain in the EU referendum campaign "I relish my smallness. I really like my smallness" Actress Jane Horrocks, above, proud of her 5ft and 4in "I don't like people saying I look good because I'm skinny.
"I relish my smallness. I really like my smallness" Actress Jane Horrocks, 5ft-4in "Are we prepared to tell lies, to spread hate and xenophobia just to win a campaign?
In the depths of Equatorial Africa the French explorer Marcel Pretre, hunter and man of the world, came upon a pygmy tribe of surprising smallness. He was all the more surprised, then, when informed that an even smaller people existed beyond forests and distances.
Finding their front line too strong, he made a flank movement and attacked them in the rear, driving them across a small creek, where he was unable to follow on account of the smallness of his force.
Wealth based on infrastructure THE wealth of the population of a country is not determined by the smallness of tax deducted from pay but in the services provided.
Enormous Smallness is a picturebook biography of American poet E.E.
The self–styled 'Jedward–haired award–winning t***' will be staging Smallness, recording his podcast The Kaneing and will perform The Closure of Craig Solly.
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