"It's a diminished version of Project Concern," said Ms. Carroll.
But the Post is clearly a diminished version of its old self.
Even a diminished version of Rodriguez and Teixeira can help the Yankees.
The first round probably did not represent Boston's steepest challenge, especially against a diminished version of the Knicks.
Ukraine is essential to Mr Putin's ambitions of creating Russia's own Eurasian Union, a diminished version of the Soviet Union that was.
So he was, of course, a diminished version of the player who was so riveting last season, when he helped the Redskins to the N.F.C.
Even as a diminished version of himself for the last few weeks, Alex Rodriguez has still gotten hits, reached base and played strong defense at third base.
Entered on the ground floor of the building where a diminished version of the Guggenheim Museum's SoHo branch holds down what is left of the fort, the store shoots through a full block from Broadway to Mercer Street.
Unable to watch his pride and joy fail, and unwilling to make the hard decisions that might have saved a diminished version of it, he decided to cook the books – and in so doing, his business's goose.
Pretending that Montagu is writing from centuries in the future allows me to see her civilization in its own light, rather than as just a diminished version of ours.
I had to decide whether to root for my favorite hockey-name-language (each Finnish name is a keeper: Kukkonen, Pitkanen, Timonen, Koivu, Ruutu…) or my longtime favorite player, the Swede Peter Forsberg, now playing a diminished version of himself (his ankle and foot problems are Sweden's version of Tiger Woods's sex life) in the Swedish Elite League.
