Sentence examples for a little diminished from inspiring English sources

Giving it up might leave even a victimised peasant feeling a little diminished.

"You can live a perfectly happy life never having heard of Shakespeare," he says, "but your life is in some ways a little diminished, because there's such beauty there.

Mr Speaker, sir, my thrill on receiving this award was only a little diminished on being told that the first Congressional Gold Medal was awarded to George Washington for what Congress called his 'wise and spirited conduct' in getting rid of the British out of Boston.

(I later found out that my colleague had let him in on my having expressed interest, so the miracle-love-story factor here is a little diminished, but it was a magical moment nonetheless).

Based on Mr. Cheney's record and his standards for measuring these things, we're certain a little diminishing of that office would be good for the country.

Anglo-American culture was little diminished when New Yorkers greeted the news of the Declaration of Independence by exuberantly trashing an equestrian statue of George III, in 1776.

Now a thousand miles from the cradle of their insurgency, the LRA would appear to have little hope of returning to Uganda, though their potential to wreak havoc on civilians remains little diminished.

It does not at all follow that the intelligent physician who has learnt how to treat successfully the illnesses of adults, has only to modify his plans a little, to diminish the proportions of his doses, for the application of his knowledge to our little sons and daughters.

Some of these things seemed to diminish the average severity of her migraines, a little bit; but none diminished their frequency.

When the quants took over, the number of little disasters diminished, and for a while everything was much more stable.

He stood back, a little aloof, but was diminished in the process.