Sentences with word «lilliputians»

The house has a pretty clever configuration with a stairway that descends onto the kitchen counter, a seating area perfect for lilliputians and the loose - jointed, under which are storage areas.

The Lilliputians rightly feel put upon and deceived.

To look at them is to feel like Gulliver, plunged precipitously into the land of the Lilliputians.

These places are living spaces: his grandmother's room, appearing like that of a giantess, where furniture and objects, broom and chamber pot, are immense, in the proportions perceived by the artist as a child; the bedroom of his daughter, still a child, seems reserved for Lilliputians, where an adult has to stoop to enter.

But just as the Lilliputians shackled Gulliver to a twenty - two - wheeled cart hauled by fifteen hundred tiny horses, transplanting Sequence is no simple undertaking.

The Lilliputians start by seeing Gulliver as enormous, foreign, and dangerous, but eventually their relationship becomes intimate.»

There are the Lilliputians staking Gulliver to the sand.

In their insular little world, think tank based education reformers are Kings of the Lilliputians.

The complicated structure of federal education policy has thus created an army of Lilliputians who lock in the multitude of grants even though the work of keeping those grants coming often makes it harder to actually run school districts.

One superintendent cited a «150 - page contract [with] over a thousand rules,» adding, «You have Gulliver and the Lilliputians.

The circus performers are a rogues» gallery of bearded ladies, strongmen, Lilliputians and the like.

Gulliver's captivity is short - lived as is the Lilliputians» fear of him, as he befriends lovelorn peasant Horatio (Jason Segel, doing an admirable, casual old English accent) and saves Princess Mary (Emily Blunt) and her father King Theodore (Billy Connolly) from kidnapping and fire, respectively.

Some of this material, like Gulliver teaching the Lilliputians basketball and trash - talk and Horatio and Mary's date, could have improved the film, but none of it is badly missed.

It makes the sudden performance of «War» by Jack Black and the Lilliputians at the end of «Gulliver's Travels» seem Oscar - worthy in comparison.

Well, they couldn't have named them Lilliputians, since the skeletons were more than a few inches tall.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Instead he found a Lilliputian bureaucracy of binary code.

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

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

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

Lilliputian.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Fiesta ST WHAT A 180 - hp turbocharged Lilliputian.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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