She catalogs the indignities of old age while reminding us how much joy can be sucked out of a physically diminished life, joy that often comes from unexpected places.
"I'm no longer just working for my own pleasure, although that hasn't diminished the joy I get from it," he tells me.
Dorsey says that the infighting never diminished his joy in having created something he loved.
And nothing, not the manned watchtowers nor the thousands of feet of razor wire surrounding the prison, diminished their joy.
"We have reached out to the couple to express our outrage that this incident occurred, and sadness that this in any way diminished the joy of their wedding day memories.
Indeed, for many passengers, being nickeled-and-dimed diminishes the joy of the journey.
But the loss did not diminish the joy he felt competing again.
LONDON — The next time that someone tells you, as they surely will, that age diminishes the joy of striving to win, show them video of Alex Ferguson.
Empathizing so deeply with the feelings of others, fairly miraculously, does not diminish the joy that Havrilesky gets from engaging the despair and complexity of her readers' problems.
In one conversation I recounted my own classic wedding at the Holy Name of Jesus church, and wondered how somebody else's less conventional marriage could diminish the joy of it.
