Sentence examples for a diminished life from inspiring English sources

He leads a diminished life; absence and loss seep into every corner of this beautiful, short book like a miasma.

Drawing on his position as someone facing a diminished life span, Wiman mounts a welcome, insightful and bracing assault on both the complacent pieties of many Christians and the thoughtless bigotry of intellectuals who regard Christian faith as suitable only for idiots or fools.

At a court hearing in September, doctors who were treating her at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y., testified that Ms. Lee, a former honors student and corporate finance officer, wanted to die because she could not bear to live such a diminished life.

She taught me that a life without kindness is a diminished life.

Even popular toys have a diminished life span and shorter period of time to attract girls before they outgrow them.

The GP excluded individuals with a diminished life expectancy.

Exclusion criteria were: a history of cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, thyroid dysfunction or a seriously diminished life expectancy (estimated <2 years).

There's a passage in "What Belongs to You" where he reflects on his life as a kind of diminished life, a life of narrow routine, and on the extent to which he's unsure how much that diminishment is something inflicted on him, and how much it's something he has chosen.

Marina imagined how hard it was for a man who must once have been so vigorous to accept this diminished life, using a cane to get around, with no one to command except her.

His heart and lung rhythms could never be properly regulated, so he received a pacemaker, which extended his foggy and diminished life until 93.

When I asked Gianna if there is any downside to home-schooling, like a diminished social life, she said: "I appreciate that they don't have much socialization now.