(No title has been so diminished in online media as "editor").
"I really am very fond of the man, and am so sorry that he's so diminished".
In Europe, wildlife is so diminished that it is largely irrelevant to the foot-and-mouth blitzkrieg.
The ranking Democratic member of the Judiciary committee, he said of the justices: "Their credibility is so diminished, and their moral posture is so diminished, it will take years to repair".
Mr. Obama's own credibility is so diminished (his approval rating in Israel is 4percentthathat serious negotiations may be farther off than ever.
Now the commercial power of the promise of real sex is so diminished, it would hardly have been worth their while.
Both here felt underplayed: Prospero lacked authority, while Ariel's presence was so diminished that she seemed little more than a supporting player.
Never in the history of the Philharmonic have orchestras been so marginal in American culture; never has the devotion of their audiences been more in question; never has the status of their repertory been so diminished.
The medical establishment is so diminished — many educated Iraqis have fled over the years — that the wounded are not always treated at a hospital, and the dead are quickly buried.
In a speech at Oxford, he looked ahead to a day when Al Qaeda was so diminished that the United States could relax its posture and end the military's legal authority to kill and detain terrorism suspects.
