Tributes have come pouring in for Curtis, even if his acting career diminished in quality and quantity after its 1960s heyday.
The group of players at the Scotland manager's disposal has diminished in quality during the past two decades but there is still no excuse for their lack of urgency and imagination against opposition such as Liechtenstein.
Daft Punk felt that while current technology allows for an unlimited capacity to store recorded material, the content produced by contemporary artists had diminished in quality.
Children with special health needs will see their care diminish in quality because states can not afford to perform at high standards when funding is low.
Radiology has been at the vanguard of telemedicine; electronic transfer of digital images between radiological departments is now standard practice because the images do not diminish in quality with transfer.
In the 18th century, the horse population of Finland vastly diminished in both numbers and quality.
Variations on this character were offered by Wilder in a number of films, including his popular comedy partnership with the ostensibly cooler Richard Pryor in Silver Streak (1976), Stir Crazy (1980), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) and Another You (1991), though they provided diminishing returns in quality.
There have been endless variations on this search, and there will continue to be more, no doubt, since it is agreed that literature did, in fact, diminish in quality, as did jurisprudence, although at a different date, and oratory, and vigorous political debate in the capital, and powerfully innovative philosophy, and sculpture, and civic patriotism, and the willingness to die for one's country.
However, quality of life at work is severely diminished in the long out-of-hours periods.
The school diminished in the distance, disappeared.
For instance, fruit size, colour and shape present a morphological variety absent in wild species [ 4], although recent selection may have unintentionally diminished fruit quality in exchange for production traits [ 9].
