Sentence examples for diminished itself from inspiring English sources

(I don't often agree with Jan Moir, of the Daily Mail, but she was right that the BBC diminished itself with its "full cream sycophancy").

But what convinced me that the film diminished itself needlessly was in its depiction of Christianity simply as a hypocritical instrument of suppression, the Bible routinely cited as justification for enslavement in sermons to the enslaved.

Ashe and Graebner play tennis with an efficiency that is thought by some to diminish tennis itself.

Asked on CNN about capital punishment, Mr Daniels said that signing death warrants had given him his "loneliest" nights in office, and noted, with something a lot like relief, that no fresh death sentences had been handed down by Indiana juries, suggesting that the policy was "diminishing" by itself.

Most slogans at last week's pro-government protest paid tribute to the remnants of Mr. Assad's personality cult, itself diminished by the viciousness of the crackdown.

What distinguishes these albums is their hazy, buffed-down quality, as if the music were a bootleg of itself, diminished in power and clarity after being traded back and forth over time.

When poetry is banished from the theatre, Walcott believes, the tragic genre itself is diminished.

Over the past several years, however, the importance of this list has greatly diminished, as the UN itself has acknowledged.

Merchantville itself has diminished in status, no longer having its own high school, its grand homes now more likely cut up into apartments.

Ms. Atkinson's entirely winning performance has itself not diminished a jot in its appeal since she has acquired a new partner.

By not allowing for responses to his work other than awe, the value of the work itself is diminished; it becomes an object of admiration, not of study.