lilliputian


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Synonyms for lilliputian

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Synonyms for lilliputian

a very small person (resembling a Lilliputian)

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(informal) small and of little importance

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What is particularly interesting in Shankar's handling of the Lilliput story is the originality of his invention in extending Swift's brief Lilliputian episode and in endowing Vishveswaran with a perspective quite different from Gulliver's on the people of Lilliput - both Mildendan and Blefuscudian.
Lilliputian society itself had been founded on qualities Swift held as ideal(4), but over time this original constitution has evidently become abused.
In the wider part of the building stands a small pew and an altar, giving the Lilliputian room some resemblance to a traditional place of worship.
He justifies his baptism of Cornelius to the Jerusalem Council by appealing, "not to Jesus, but to the Spirit," which had made clear to him that he "must not call anyone unclean." Next to this climactic decision, the decision to ordain married priests or women is "Lilliputian," and the Church's refusal a sign of "evangelical paralysis."
Lilliputian size distinguishes Black Corinth grapes, whose clusters are so small and artistically formed they seem to have been made by elves.
His younger friend had different ideas about her exit, as the tireless Lilliputian helpers placed her into a deckchair which eventually made its way back up the Strand.
"He's a guy who's a bona fide movie star," says Corden, who plays a Lilliputian named Jinx.
It comes as no surprise when the Lilliputian court goes up in flames that this Gulliver chooses to extinguish the inferno by emptying the contents of an extremely full bladder.
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As you've probably guessed, these Lilliputian edifices aren't cheap, but they might just hit the nail on the head.
A robust fellow in A Mare's Nest, 2000, becomes queen, clown, and martyr, done up in an elaborate wig/halo and ruffled "collar," a collage of Lilliputian architectural renderings, corporate logos, flora and fauna, and the int ertwined limbs of tiny wrestlers and bodybuilders.
In their Lilliputian context, that egg is huge, almost the width of the mother's body It hatches into a baby lizard about three-quarters the size of an adult.
Fully charged it gives 12 hours of playtime and this lilliputian machine produces great sound levels.
Having seen this Lilliputian nightmare, we are then invited to condemn the parents for trying to live their ambitions through their children.