Sentences with phrase «so diminutive»

Big G's full - sized smart home hub is of course cheaper than the «regular» Echo, at $ 129 vs. $ 180, bundle deals and outright discounts notwithstanding, so the diminutive model may well undercut the $ 50 Echo Dot too.
They have very big personalities and do not know they're so diminutive.
It was tiny, so the diminutive of Iso, Isetta, seemed an appropriate name.
Trailed by a cloud of flowing brunette hair, in walks Rachel Bilson, a chatty, smiley, flirty college student who is actually so diminutive that she's technically a regulation - size pixie.

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Perhaps it is because he's already so close to the ground, but Canada's diminutive finance minister Jim Flaherty has a knack for jamming his head into the sand just as he's about to get slammed in the face with bad news.
The diminutive midfield magician has played in a number of roles for Arsenal and I am sure that Arsene Wenger will ask him to do so again at times, but the boss does seem to have settled on the central midfield role as the best one for the Spaniard.
His replacement, caretaker Dave Robertson, turned results around, but he did so without his diminutive No. 10.
Hull did it yesterday, we did it the week before, QPR did it, Stoke did at the beginning of this season, Sunderland did it the season before that and Mourinho has done it with every clash vs Pellegrini since his return, out of a maximum of 12 points over 2 seasons vs City, Chelsea have taken 8... so it isn't a surprise it worked for us, especially in Toure's absence and the fact that Aguero is diminutive in stature, he isn't an aerial threat.
So if Arsenal are serious about building a team that can win the title next season, the first step would be to get the diminutive Chilean to sign on fresh terms.
He a diminutive fellow with a big heart, so don't that thinking he's the answer in defensive midfield.
With so much at stake a moment of magic could be the difference between the two sides today and in the past when you think of magic and Chelsea a diminutive Italian comes to mind and as you would expect he has a beauty of a goal against Manchester United in the archive.
Having notched up 40 games for Rotherham last season, his face didn't fit with Steve Evans and his transition to the South of England has been effortless so far — at 6 foot 4, he had little difficulty dominating the experienced but diminutive Warren Feeney and his partnership with the left sided centre back Jake Wright had seen United avoid conceding for more than 350 minutes before Robbie Williams» curled free kick put an end to that on Saturday, provoking a late rally.
Arsenal have relied on the diminutive Andrei Arshavin who never played centre forward before and on Eduardo who is still trying to find his feet after being out of action for so long.
I soon realized that breast isn't best for all moms and all babies and saying so is both diminutive and harmful.
In his weekly Foreign Affairs column, Garvan Walshe reflects on Russia: «Moscow's foreign policy has become the personal codpiece of its diminutive leader — he of the staged archaeological driving expeditions (think of the ageing medieval king whose servants would tie deer and boar to trees so they wouldn't escape the shaky royal arrow).»
Like the universe itself from so long ago, GN - z11 appears to us as an infant, a diminutive galaxy 25 times smaller than our own Milky Way.
Instead, the researchers point to an advantage of small size: Among today's creatures, diminutive species tend to grow and reproduce faster, so that they can produce a new generation before they are killed by predators.
DIMINUTIVE they may be, but the smallest galaxies seem most able to muscle out visible matter, and so are darker than their larger cousins.
Once in the big city, however, the diminutive Judy is overshadowed by her towering fellow cops — rhinos, elephants, hippos and so on — and summarily dismissed by Police Chief Bogo (Idris Elba), a surly cape buffalo who assigns Judy meter - maid duty instead of allowing her to assist in the investigation of a rash of missing mammals.
So he enters a pact with Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn), a diminutive con man who promises to transform him back into his former scary self for a day.
Taking a stock character and imbuing her with specific, plausible verve, Beharie displayed a towering talent in stark juxtaposition to her diminutive frame, immediately joining the ranks of so many fine actors who make bad movies watchable.
We worked hard to be careful and consistent, but there were inevitable challenges in determining search parameters, dealing with common names or quirky diminutives, and so forth.
VW says all 184 of those torques arrive at a lowly 1,400 rpm, giving the not - so - little sedan some low - effort punch that pulls beyond what the diminutive displacement might suggest on paper.
For the time being, the 2013 Acura ILX has a lock on this little - lux sedan niche, so if you got ta get a diminutive, fine - finished 4 - door today, look no further.
Don't be fooled by their diminutive status — these hotted - up hatchbacks carry some real firepower... or so you'd be led to conclude if you believed in badge heritage.
Of course — he kept forgetting — this house wasn't so little anymore; he and his visionary wife had added 1,270 square feet to its diminutive proportions.
Its diminutive size, which makes it so handy for stashing in a coat pocket, also makes it unlikely to satisfy more than one antsy kid on a long car ride.
Screen Despite the diminutive size of the Curve 9370, it still has a decently - sized display that measures 2.44 inches diagonally, so nothing feels too cramped.
Other «chi» experts claim the Aztec and Toltects tribes associated with smaller breeds, so perhaps this diminutive doggy had its place amongst them.
The Italians call this church Chiesa di San Carlino alle Quattro Fontane («Carlino» is the diminutive of «Carlo» — Italian for Charles — so the literal translation would be Church of «little» San Charles of Four Fountains).
Anyone familiar with that figure knows already how big it is, so seeing it appear relatively diminutive speaks volumes.
Why we're doing this: because the SNES Mini is a thing, and it's out in September at the same time as the Sega Genesis Flashback, another diminutive system pre-loaded with a bunch of games (the differences being the Flashback has a slot to play original cartridges, and the SNES line - up out of the box is so, so much better).
We all know that using the regular controller that comes with Xbox One X doesn't make for the most ergonomic experience, so that's why Microsoft has produced the diminutive yet user friendly Media Remote.
If Abts» unpretentious explanation is surprising in this age of overwrought rationalization, so too is the straightforward presentation and unapologetically diminutive size of her work.
His intensely - colored works range in size from the diminutive to the monumental, so there's li...
O'Keeffe's more moderately scaled paintings were so closely cropped to their subjects that they instill in the viewer a sense of having physically shrunken to a diminutive, nearly insect - like size.
As this Muslim empire fell into decline, so did its art form, marked by a meticulous attention to minute detail, lush jewel tones, epic subject matter, and diminutive scale.
Spindly, silhouetted trees shiver diminutive leaves in an almost anthropomorphic way («willows whiten aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver» *), water rushes over rocks, so that the spray appears to rise like black smoke; repeating motifs, such as a glass of water effervescing, find visual rhymes with a sky full of black starlings whirling in a great mass.
«Spleen» and aggression are personal, after all, and the lingering sense that this Biennial so often prefers self - contained investigations and diminutive, labor - intensive objects raises questions that complicate the positive response the show has received.
In CHEZ Razpredelenie Bulgaria AD v Komisia za ot Diskriminatsia (to save my sanity — CHEZ) the AG decided that the practice of installing electricity meters at too high a level in predominantly Roma areas and where the Roma population were less able to read them, being of diminutive stature, was indirect discrimination — so far, so well established.
Watchfaces can display far more complex data fields, and the notifications are easier to interact with — or they would be if they weren't so tiny on this diminutive screen.
The Model B + updates include improvements in the diminutive computer's performance, including incorporating an updated version of the Broadcom application processor, the BCM2837B0, that is 200 MHz faster and builds in power integrity optimizations and a heat spreader that allows it to run so much faster.
So the Xperia Z1 Compact is a monster of a handset despite its diminutive size, taking much of what's good (and bad) about the Z1 and cramming it into a smaller space.
Google offers a growing range of smart speakers, with current offerings including the mid-sized Google Home, the larger Home Max, and the diminutive Mini so feared (or possibly loved) by Gran.
This antenna is not amplified, so given its diminutive size, it has a limited 25 - mile (40 kilometers) reception range.
But with the ZTE Axon 7 Mini and many other so - called diminutive devices, smallness is about cost and scaled - back hardware goods even more than it is about size.
The diminutive size of the tiles — an inch or so wide — suited the scale of the generally cramped spaces and allowed for a wide variety of patterns, which ranged from simple to intricate.
So, instead of lamenting the temporary home's diminutive size, she celebrated its virtues and set about making it cute and cozy for work and entertaining.
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