Sentences with word «lilliputian»

The Bodkin Archer (formerly Lilypa, an abbreviation of Lilliputian) is a recurring monster in the Dragon Quest series.

The Lilliputian side is diverse and nimble; the Gulliver side is monotone and ponderous.

Thesesubtlyhint at the horror symbolized by the uncanny Lilliputian house that is none other than the Berghorf, Adolf Hitler's favorite mountain retreat in the Bavarian Alps and the place where he spent most of his time during World War II.

Fonseca's worlds of doors, windows, and ladders, often carved into single slabs, could be Lilliputian in size, or they could be the representation of something much larger.

Eventually it turns the tables: the illuminated windows become hundreds of Lilliputian eyes.

The experience was a bit bewildering at first, since the studio is a laboratory where the artist has more than a dozen «experiments» going simultaneously: a giant firefly contraption takes up a swing - set zone; materials for an upcoming performance are laid out on every surface of the seating and sofa zone; fish tanks surround a computer zone and provide the staging ground for an oceanic corral project; dozens of human arm forms, cast in a Black Power salute and cast in gold, are lined up along a wall, in preparation for a huge installation in Washington, D.C. this fall; a 3 - D printer is on pause as it creates Lilliputian figures for who - knows - what; and everywhere are various staging grounds of plastic models which will eventually be sprayed in gold and mounted on pins, to create Kaino's now - signature six - foot - tall, glittering gold pin drawings that suggest atomized worlds.

Within the frequently Lilliputian dimensions of his prints — some of the most famous ones are little more than two inches high — Callot represented beggars, gypsies, soldiers, actors, and the ladies and gentlemen of the court.»

Emin overlaid Bourgeois's forms with fantasy, drawing smaller figures that engaged with the torsos like Lilliputian lovers, enacting the body's desires and anxieties.

A single armed guard, Lilliputian in scale, underlines the absurd element.

Novoa establishes a conduit to Pepe Mar's site - specific installation of twisted multicolor fantasy, as Orwellian in its penchant for escapism as the brutality of Novoa's lilliputian detail.

Other works such as The Seduction (2012) by Francis Upritchard are less so adapted for the localized flora but speak to the Lilliputian theme of fairyland idols with two miniature - sized apes frozen in an explorative embrace.

It's slightly longer than your Wii, but at less than four pounds, it's Lilliputian next to an Xbox 360.

Steal enough junk to make a pile tall enough to reach the moon, which is apparently where the lilliputian protagonists hail from.

The strong but not coarse head, slightly arched neck, level topline, and sleek, well - muscled body give the little dog the appearance of strength in a Lilliputian package.

But this Amazon device may have Lilliputian appeal unless Amazon allows its users to enjoy the many popular apps available from Google's Play app store.»

Plus, some of the keys are lilliputian, such as the right Shift, question mark and carat.

The interminably cute Mazda 2 was sold here solely as a five - door hatchback, its front - wheel - drive platform shared with the Lilliputian Ford Fiesta.

by its diminutive stature — parked next to a Dodge Ram in the parking lot, it looked positively Lilliputian.

Powering this Lilliputian city commuter is a 1.3 - liter inline - four cylinder engine that makes do with 94 horsepower and 89 lb - ft.

For instance, the flea - like Autozam AZ - 1 provided a bizarre Lilliputian driving experience unlike anything else I've experienced, while a Ford Sierra Cosworth was a happy hooligan on a mountain road and a Citroën DS21 remains the single most comfortable vehicle I've ever driven.

The previous year, Dad had borrowed a 109 - inch - wheelbase wagon from Rover so we could go to Wheeling, West Virginia, where the Wheeling Steel Company feted him grandly and presented us with a half ton of steel (still in Dad's backyard, with his name inscribed on it) after he'd celebrated the Lilliputian steelmaker's capitalist spirit in the pages of the Saturday Evening Post for its uplifting refusal to comply with President Kennedy's voluntary price controls.

Fiesta ST WHAT A 180 - hp turbocharged Lilliputian.

The disc preserves the film's theatrical trailer (2:22), which underplays the Lilliputian content that makes up the bulk of the film.

Both the Blu - ray and DVD main menu play clips on a screen surrounded by Lilliputian scaffolding.

Fleischer turned to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and the Lilliputian section in particular, for his story.

After 10 years of lean, threadbare, Lilliputian stories, Marvel Studios has, thank heavens, in any case determined to move giant.

It's a comedy with Lilliputian sight gags that treat its science - fiction scenario lightly, at least for the first hour, until life grows darker and darker.

Settlements feel Lilliputian, distance trivial, and an environment sold short by a lack of grandiosity.

I've outgrown Lilliputian witches and goblins with flying broomsticks, and so have they.

Lilliputian.

The clever chip responsible for that analysis reduces an entire genetics lab to Lilliputian proportions.

The key is to pump the atmosphere with tons of these Lilliputian particles.

Yet sharp - eyed scientists found several Lilliputian species in 2015, including these five.

Instead he found a Lilliputian bureaucracy of binary code.

Lilliputian Family Tremblaya is one of a growing family of extremely small endosymbiotic bacteria, discovered within the last seven years, that have challenged scientists» assumptions about the minimal blueprint of life.

The Lilliputian contraptions consist of two gold triangles whose peaks are pointed toward each other, creating a sort of three - dimensional bow tie shape.

Optical microscopes gave birth to cell biology, revealing a Lilliputian world of mitochondria, chromosomes, and much more.

Because of its Lilliputian dimensions, this kind of nanoelectronic detector saves a lot of both space and energy.

While they wouldn't be mistaken for Lilliputian - sized brains, some of their fine - grained features bear a remarkable resemblance to the human cerebral cortex, home to our memories, decision making and other high - level cognitive powers.

A paper describing the lilliputian lizard is set to be published in December's issue of the Caribbean Journal of Science.

And by affixing an enzyme to the tip, Lieber has done the work of a Lilliputian construction worker — attaching the enzyme to an individual protein.

Lilliputian galaxies spawned by the early universe attracted their fellow young galaxies, which glommed together into bigger galaxies.

Using the new methods of micromachining, which borrow technology for making computer chips to carve out and build up microscopic structures on silicon wafers, Peter Gammel and his colleagues at Bell Labs / Lucent Technologies reduced three of the critical devices of a cell phone to Lilliputian size that will allow all the components of a phone to be constructed on a single chip.

Now, with Oke dumping the All Progressives Congress (APC) and birthing in AD — no thanks to a disputed primary where Oke came third behind winner, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, and runner - up, Segun Abraham — Oke is somewhat hopeful of replicating the Mimiko 2007 formula, of mounting a Lilliputian platform, to trounce mighty Gullivers, just to make the point treachery - induced doom is no respecter of party might.

Right under the snooping radar of Akufo - Addo's Lilliputian ministerial nose, diplomatic and non-diplomatic passports reportedly disappeared under mysterious circumstance only to reappear in the company of international drug dealers who, once again, are either reportedly related to the political sniffer dog himself, Akufo - Addo, or to shady persons closely connected to the uppermost echelons of the ethnocentric NPP.

Miniature versions of things are hard to resist: Lilliputian houses tempt us with their small chimneys while little owls seduce us with their teeny - tiny beaks.

Sophomore guards Corey Fisher and Corey Stokes join Reynolds in the Wildcats» Lilliputian offense, which has been dubbed Guard U in recent years as Wright has often gone with an up - tempo four - guard, one - forward lineup.

For simple scale, take a look at the relatively lilliputian requirements to join the roughly 3,000 members of Tall Clubs International (phone number: 888 - I - M - TALL - 2), the biggest social organization of its kind.

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This article appeared in print under the headline «Gulliver ants live happily among the Lilliputians»