I am small. I was always small. But only physically.
I'm not a short person; I'm 5'10 and I was wearing heels, and I felt like a tiny little creature next to Shaquille O'Neal.
I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!
Well, I'm a small guy.
I'm tiny. I'm small.
Everything looks cute when it's small.
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive.
You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.