RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply huge, operatic voice, a diminutive powerhouse who prowled the stage like a feline elf and who was, it turns out, also finely intelligent and well spoken, an actual gentleman in a genre known all too well for its bombastic, monosyllabic doltbuckets. A rare thing indeed.
We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.