Now "freedom" is being emptied of meaning and reduced to a slogan.
The dahlias, too, are blackened as if by a blowtorch and reduced to a phantom of their former glory.
What I saw at his home after his spell in hospital was this giant of a man, helpless and reduced to a shadow of his former self.
Yet, precisely because it has been so admired for so long, Greek art has been bastardised, caricatured and reduced to a cliche.
Bluish little phosphorous flames still flickered around many of them; others had been roasted brown or purple and reduced to a third of their normal size.
But how do you identify wine when it's thousands of years old and reduced to a few dried bits from a pottery jar?
Visiting him just before his death, he found "this giant of a man, helpless and reduced to a shadow of his former self.
The Senate originally floated a $318 billion bill; that has since been combined with a House bill and reduced to a more acceptable $292 billion until 2009.
The fruit is mixed with berries, and the wine, sweetened with sugar, is enriched with berry purée and reduced to a sauce.
This is in stark contrast to most of the other books nominated, in which the individual is ignored if not actually spurned, and reduced to a member of some hyphenated group.
It's the spectacle of someone with this background robbed of a chance to belong somewhere, and reduced to a state of perpetual self-salesmanship, that Cheever figures the reader will ultimately find humorous and terrifying.
