Today, trapped, damaged and diminished minds inhabit clinics and nursing homes worldwide – in Europe alone the number of new coma cases is estimated to be around 230,000 annually, of which some 30,000 will languish in a persistent vegetative state.
Mrs. Babbitt is a small woman with plaintive eyes, her vision and hearing diminished, her mind plenty sharp.
The 325-line fragment ends with the rallying speech of the old warrior Byrhtwold (here in modern English): Mind must be firmer, heart the more fierce, Courage the greater, as our strength diminishes.... Mind must be firmer, heart the more fierce, Courage the greater, as our strength diminishes...
Her more recent research showed how amphetamine abuse in adolescence or early adulthood could diminish the mind's performance for years and perhaps permanently.
Human choices and human prediction power are very important for interactions with computer systems, e.g. security can be influenced by poor predictions about the possibilities of attacks and attack surface can be wrongly diminished in the mind of the human, whereas wrong choices can incur safety problems.
As her beautiful mind diminished and her frail body followed its lead, she wore this robe.
The volume of his output, the speed at which he worked and his clarity of mind scarcely diminished and he remained a strikingly handsome man until the end.
He is skeptical of his publisher's suggestion that he finish the book with a collaborator, and he says he has finally surrendered to the conclusion that his body is too feeble and his mind too diminished to carry on with the project.
As Murphy sings her big number, "Pirate Jenny," Nina Simone's infinitely more powerful rendition comes to mind, diminishing the actress's efforts.
"They want their piece of paradise, but every time they do that, it diminishes, in my mind, my picture of it," said Linton Duell, the owner of Orient's general store.
