Sentence examples for diminished ends from inspiring English sources

In "Fat Albert," that trademark is resurrected to depressingly diminished ends.

("Hey Abbott!") What's distinct about the recent cycle of comic juvenilia are its contemporary contours — male camaraderie and self-actualization combined with raunchy guffaws and a preoccupation with women that doesn't extend to giving them interesting roles — and the ease with which its prominent practitioners are willing to recycle their own laughs to increasingly diminished ends.

Banking on the studio adage that there's no success like a previous box office hit, Mr. Phillips and company dutifully recycle the first movie to increasingly diminishing ends that include the baby-now-monkey, the giggly, swishy gangster Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong) and the obligatory, obliging anti-wives (i.e., whores).

"If anything," Mr. Galen said, "it diminished the end of the Clinton administration because the last major story of Clinton, once again, had to do with a scandal".

However, the degree of correlation diminished at end-stage disease, compared to the pre-symptomatic and the disease-onset stages.

We hypothesized that, compared with normal LVs, flow in myopathic LVs would demonstrate a smaller proportion of inflow volume passing directly to ejection and diminished the end-diastolic preservation of the inflow kinetic energy (KE).

For those with longer hair, you can concentrate on treating the ends to help diminish dead-end frizziness.

Instead, the film dissolves into a series of diminishing anticlimaxes, ending on a note of portentous ambiguity.

He's got a point: take away the cracks and creases, and his job prospects would diminish no end.

The revelation that this is not the case slightly diminishes that ending for me, although I am interested in how very easy she finds it to compartmentalise her life.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is planning to travel to Africa and Europe later this month, should add the Middle East to his itinerary to see if he can at least persuade the two sides to diminish or end the bloodshed.