Sentence examples for Diminishments from inspiring English sources

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing.

She ends her book with a lyrical reflection on what Copernicus might make of the universe we know today: "He had initiated a cascade of diminishments.

"The Velocity of Autumn" is fundamentally a study of a woman of intelligence and firm will wrestling with the inevitable diminishments that come with age.

His deviations are invariably diminishments.

Barnes is brutally incisive on the diminishments of age: now that the sense of his own ending is coming into focus, Tony apprehends that "the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss", that he has already experienced the first death: that of the possibility of change.

Basketball stars and football heroes have teammates to magnify what they still have left, to mask their diminishments and even carry them, with luck, to one last big victory.

Every diminishment of that right diminishes women.

Far more muted was the crowd's response to the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, the army chief's unrelated namesake who came to power in 2013 with the ambition of clipping the wings of Pakistan's dominant military but who has presided over the diminishment of civilian power after losing a series of bruising battles with the army.

Many of the larger emerging powers, such as India, Brazil and South Africa, both ride on the coat-tails of Uncle Sam and also sneer at him, if only because they see the diminishment of the global superpower as a boost to their own regional influence.

But three deep-lying explanations help to illuminate the country's diminishment.

Compare that $2 billion cost, Lessig suggests, to a radically shrunken (and less busy) FEC and the diminishment of loopholes and handouts.