Word: dwarfish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Riley glanced down the court at Van Gundy and sighed. The dwarfish, always poorly-dressed and poorly-coiffed genius had shown him the door for the second straight season. Small consolation: Van Gundy will never make the cover of Esquire...
Riley glanced down the court at Van Gundy and sighed. The dwarfish, always poorly-dressed and poorly-coiffed genius had shown him the door for the second straight season. Small consolation: Van Gundy will never make the cover of Esquire...
Many thanks for the flattering reference to my gaudily crowned head but may I file a gentle demurrer to your repeated use of the adjective "dwarfish" in describing my person. Although I actually stand five feet four inches in socks, I have never objected to being ribbed about my size. Your pet word, however, strikes me as inappropriate as it carries a connotation of the monstrous and stunted. Let me suggest that such phrases as "smallish," "minute," "miniature" and even "pocket-size" Billy Rose would be considerably more appetizing. Of course, if your mind is made up, I assure...
Lautrec needed this show -- desperately, almost. Being a myth is hard on a painter, and worse for his work. And for most people, thanks not only to Hollywood but also to ideas about his work that emerged nearly as soon as it did, Lautrec is a myth -- the crippled, dwarfish child of aristocratic birth, condemned to deformity by his own family's inbreeding, who defied his father and fled from the confines of his class to join the outcasts in Montmartre, becoming the peintre maudit of French bohemia, recording its life and seedy joys as no artist had ever done...