Sentence examples for diminished affair from inspiring English sources

Musically, however, this revival is a diminished affair.

This year's correspondents' dinner was a diminished affair compared with past events.

He is left diminished by this affair.

The accord was not ratified by the Ukrainian Parliament, however, and the affair diminished Kravchuk's credibility in the country.

It's true that we have an unhealthy interest in personality politics and gossip, and this diminishes proper affairs of state.

THE rotating presidency of the European Union is, mercifully, a much-diminished affair, as a result of the Lisbon treaty.

Tells how the exposure of a number of "affairs" diminished support for the Socia Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, Obama's fear of being called weak on defense by Republicans, and thus seeing his stature in foreign affairs diminished for the rest of his term, was doubtless a motive as well.

To achieve this goal, Budapest restricted the use of the Romanian language in education and public affairs and diminished the autonomy of the Orthodox and Uniate churches the principal Romanian cultural bulwarks.

In particular, Szwed traces the stories of two important relationships that are missing from the book — with Charles Laughton, in the nineteen-thirties, and with Tallulah Bankhead, in the late nineteen-forties — and of one relationship that's sharply diminished in the book, her affair with Orson Welles around the time of "Citizen Kane".

While the presence and power of the ultras on the terraces has diminished, their influence in club affairs is still significant.