Sentence examples for diminished by having from inspiring English sources

Indeed, so potent is the music that its effect might have been diminished by having anything else too close to it.

There's a certain mutuality of abasement here, with one poet's littleness being put on record, while the other is diminished by having needed to mention it.

Golding's "demons" don't seem to have been diminished by having a good job in beautiful surroundings, but I suppose that's what demons do -- or don't do.

At times, though, he was an isolated figure, his impact diminished by having to play his game on the periphery of matches rather than at the heart of them.

They are neither of them normal and, while I am sure she is lovely and smart, it seems to me she is entirely diminished by having to "anchor him in the real world".

"The only way you end up not having a nuclear capable Iran is for the Iranian government to decide that their security is diminished by having those weapons as opposed to strengthened," Gates says.

But experience has proved that the sale of books, so far from being diminished by them, has been greatly promoted".As it was with books in the late 18th century, so it is with music today.

Saurav Ganguly then extinguished England's diminishing chances by having an increasingly static Fairbrother caught behind for 30, and then snaffling Mark Ealham, caught at slip by Mohammad Azharuddin, third ball for a duck.

There were no guests present; we both felt that we had already had a big wedding and didn't want to diminish it by having another one.

It is a good school yet its appeal has been diminished by the various options we have had to compare it against – schools that we never had a chance of getting into.

And Lewis, whose play has been diminished by a hip injury, had his most dominant game of the season.