Ben Bradshaw diminished himself yesterday by suggesting as much.
The foreign secretary divorces his wife and diminishes himself; the home secretary's forthright handling of his son's drug-taking earns him universal respect.
Mr. Snowden was courageous in admitting what he did and not hiding behind anonymity, but he is diminishing himself by seeking asylum in countries that have their own agendas.
That said, for all the debate about whether Mr. Bush has diminished himself by going negative so early, the Bush-Kerry matchup has not been particularly negative, at least not yet, by historical standards.
Becker writes, "The ironic thing about the narrowing-down of neurosis is that the person seeks to avoid death, but he does it by killing off so much of himself and so large a spectrum of his action-world that he is actually isolating and diminishing himself and becomes as though dead".
The only drawback to this reading is that it faintly diminishes Antony himself.
Here are some of the most notable responses: "Rex is an intelligent, well prepared, defensive minded head coach that does a great job at motivating his team, then diminishes them, himself and their results by unnecessarily channeling his inner bombast".
But when Mr. Bush pushed Mr. Cheney to the forefront of the transition during the past month, it only seemed to diminish Mr. Bush himself.
The providential self-destruction of the three previous non-Mitt Romney front-runners, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain, will have done nothing to diminish his sense of himself as a man of destiny.
I know he was pleased with the film, we did countless interviews together to promote the film in New York and LA where he would always diminish his status, describing himself as a mere conduit for talent.
