Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like.... little person, or vertically challenged, or-" "I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled. "I'm a dwarf! Rick Riordan
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. Geraldine Brooks