Coomaraswamy's photograph, taken from the figure's left, shows a
dwarfish gana on the right, as in Bhagwanlal's photograph, but also possibly has another gana or some object on the left, not visible in Bhagwanlal's photograph.
When I passed through earlier I must have missed them--a
dwarfish black woman and her white counterpart, both about 50, both wearing gray orthopedic nursing shoes, dark-brown corduroy jackets, thick-lensed glasses and light-blue hospital-thin hair caps.
TIME BANDITS (Channel 4, 10.10pm - 12.15am) Terry Gilliam's splendid fantasy comedy with schoolboy Craig Warnock joining a band of
dwarfish time travellers as they flee from the dark forces of evil time-lord David Warner.
Fawn Brodie's psychohistory of the man was more illuminating, about his
dwarfish libido and petty sottishness and miserable family, than the MTV jump-cuts we get from the movie.
Composed for the "Jeune Public" of the Val de Marne festival, Fort Gambo draws its inspiration from Hollywood cliches; Le Cirque Pandor, despite its mention of Chicago and its multiethnic cast, remains linked to the European tradition of vaudevillian acrobats, clowns, equestrian equilibrists, and gigantic and
dwarfish monsters (Toulouse Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso's "Saltimbanques," Mallarme's "Pitre chatie," Laforgue's lunar dreamers).
The best answer to the question, "Why were the miners and metallurgists of mythology envisioned by the ancients as
dwarfish in size?" is, I suspect, "Because the real miners of prehistory were stunted." Colonies of miners have existed throughout European prehistory.
gudru, gurru '
dwarfish (of persons and animals only)'.
In order for satire to work there must be at least some vague, Prufrockian memory of a standard in comparison with which the subject may appear in his or her tree,
dwarfish proportions.
In an interview, Sinyavsky maintained that Little Jinx's
dwarfish antihero is "full of love, but since he chooses to become a writer, he must pay for it.
But the definition of elf goes further in a note that accounts for their "
dwarfish form," a varied list of mischief that elves do to men, and the relation and differences between elves and fairies.
Set in an English country home, we follow underachieving Daniel (Matthew Macfadyen) who has to cope with his dad's funeral and a
dwarfish blackmailing mourner.
Yes, it was Frank Dobson, the
dwarfish, food-loving Labour MP.