Diminutive
Original Source:
"'I've had some of these since I was a child. Daddy and Mama - all of us - spent part of most years in California. By the ocean. And there was a shop that sold such precious little things. These cups.' A set of doll-house teacups, anchored to a diminutive tray, trembled in the palm of her hand."
Capote, Truman. In
Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences. New
York: Vintage Books, 1994. Print.
Definition*:
small; little; tiny.
*All definitions are from the source found in THIS post.
Second Source:
"Life can be easily lived in a diminutive puddle or travelled on a vast ocean of discovery but until you haze upon that sea of hope, vision and possibility, exploring, determining and pressing every button that enforces aspiration and action, you'll be unlikely to experience its symbolic drenching of success."
"Quote by
Michael Khatkar: Life can be easily lived in a diminutive puddle...." Goodreads.
N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Jan. 2014. <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/790916-life-can-be-easily-lived-in-a-diminutive-puddle-or>.
Commentary:
I initially thought of diminutive to be a word meaning evil and that could characterize a villain. In the original source, Capote describes a small tray which holds a set of petite teacups that Mrs. Clutter keeps from her childhood. Khatkar, in the second source, illustrates life as something that can be chosen to be lived in either a small, confined space, or a boundless area full of experiences that one can explore.
I initially thought of diminutive to be a word meaning evil and that could characterize a villain. In the original source, Capote describes a small tray which holds a set of petite teacups that Mrs. Clutter keeps from her childhood. Khatkar, in the second source, illustrates life as something that can be chosen to be lived in either a small, confined space, or a boundless area full of experiences that one can explore.
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