Legend has it that Celtic warriors eschewed body armor (and even clothing!) in battle because they thought it diminished the glory of a true victory.
Each new Die Hard film – the gratuitous second, the pointless fourth, the actively terrible fifth – serves only to diminish the glory of the original.
He then explained that "none of us can add to or diminish the glory of her of whom we have no revealed knowledge".
The fact that, as it occurred to me later, the towers are not by Trump, and that, in any case, Trump, in his long career, has never done two of anything, should not diminish the glory of this exchange.
It diminishes the glory of a mutually submissive marriage, in which both the husband and wife recognize their brokenness and dependency on Christ, and on one another.
Bernard B. Kerik, the former police commissioner of New York, appeared diminished from his glory days.
But it is much diminished from the glory days when it hosted the likes of Dylan Thomas, Sid Vicious and Warhol's Chelsea Girls.
Like many veterans, but for different reasons, he came home to find his glory days diminished, even though he was still young.
It may diminish Yahweh's glory but could also be a strong enough combination to withstand the theological critiques of the know-it-all Darwin crowd.
They squared off before a small and disinterested television audience, and for the loser, Coppin, a fleeting moment of glory was further diminished.
The Yankees are again world champions, and it seems a shame that the man widely credited with having returned the club to its historic glory has been diminished by age and infirmity.
