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miniature(1) (iou) and Niebuhr, Reinhold (sh)


miniature(1) (iou)



miniature noun & adjective. L16.
[Italian miniatura from medieval Latin, from miniare MINIATE: see -URE. Cf. MINI-.]
A. noun.
An image or representation on a small scale. Also occas., a minutely finished production. L16.
Dryden Tragedy is the miniature of human life.
b. A thing that is much smaller or briefer than usual; spec. (a) Chess a problem involving seven or fewer pieces; a game decided in a small number of moves; (b) a very small bottle of spirits; (c) a short piece of Music. E20.
P. Cutting Ben and I crept up to my room to share a miniature of cherry brandy. J. Marquand A miniature of a man, as small as..the dwarfed trees.
The Art or action, orig. that of a medieval illuminator, of painting portraits on a small scale and with minute finish, usu. on ivory or vellum; a portrait of this kind. M17.
Hugh Walpole Painters in Enamel and Miniature. N. Pevsner Miniatures painted minutely on parchment. A. Lurie He was tall and thin, with a short pointed beard like a man in an Elizabethan miniature.
The rubrication or illumination of a manuscript; a picture in an illuminated manuscript; (an) illuminated design. M17.
Phrases: in miniature on a small scale; in a brief or abridged form.
b. adjective. Represented, designed, etc., on a small scale; much smaller than normal; tiny. E18.
miniature camera, miniature poodle, miniature railway, etc. miniature Golf a game in which a club is used to putt a small ball into a succession of holes on a green etc.
Scott Fitzgerald A miniature picture theatre with four rows of overstuffed chairs.
miniaturist noun an illuminator of manuscripts; a painter of miniatures: M19.

Niebuhr, Reinhold (sh)




born June 21, 1892, Wright City, Mo., U.S.
died June 1, 1971, Stockbridge, Mass.

U.S. theologian.

The son of an evangelical minister, he studied at Eden Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School. He was ordained in the Evangelical Synod of North America in 1915 and served as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, Mich., until 1928. His years in that industrial city made him a critic of capitalism and an advocate of socialism. From 1928 to 1960 he taught at New York's Union Theological Seminary. His influential writings, which forcefully criticized liberal Protestant thought and emphasized the persistence of evil in human Nature and social institutions, include Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), The Nature and Destiny of Man, 2 vol. (1941-43), and The Self and the Dramas of History (1955).


Reinhold Niebuhr, 1963

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