By then, both the Braves and the Mets will have learned if their respective thorns are firmly imbedded for the run of the season or have diminished into a curious sideshow.
Over the next couple of decades, the same question was repeated, and exactly the same response to my reply; though as time passed, I couldn't help noticing that the enthusiasm diminished into a kind of sympathetic hopefulness.
Although by now the image of the Lake District has diminished into a cozy cliche of the pastoral, when William Wordsworth first invited his friends and fellow poets to join him in the area around Grasmere, they were settling in what was considered a remote and barbaric wilderness.
This countryside has been diminished into an enclave but enough is left to explain how Tolkien came to put down spiritual roots here.
The conductor Kurt Sanderling, who worked often with Shostakovich, found these sounds to represent fluctuations in hospital machinery, which diminish into a straight line on a screen once the patient loses life.
During the actual interview, however, she seems to diminish into a lower wattage version of herself, revealing only glimpses of the humour that fired some of television's most memorable characters: from the overbearing social pole-vaulter Beverly, in Abigail's Party, to Essex mum Pamela in the BBC's hit sitcom Gavin and Stacey.
This seems to be the case more and more as the concept of a safety school is slowly diminishing into a relic of the past for some candidates, particularly overqualified ones.
The western ridgeline of the Metacomet Ridge begins in New Haven, Connecticut, as West Rock Ridge and continues as Sleeping Giant, Mount Sanford, Peck Mountain, and Prospect Ridge, for a distance of 16 mile before diminishing into a series of low profile outcrops just short of Southington, Connecticut, 2.75 mile west of the Hanging Hills in Meriden.
From Greenfield north to 2 mile short of the Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts tri border, the profile of the Metacomet Ridge diminishes into a series of nondescript hills and low, wooded mountain peaks composed of sedimentary rock with dwindling traprock outcrops.
After all, as we get older, our senses dull, and our capacity to feel joy diminishes into an apple pip that's rotting somewhere deep in the lower intestine, corroded by years of lager and ready meals.
The bureaucrat writing in 1903 was not observing just any old fact, but instead the "most impressive religious fact in the country". Indeed, the educational system of which the bureaucrat wrote was a very big deal then, and it survives, though diminished, into our time.
