Sentence examples for diminished present from inspiring English sources
He is describing not the diminished present but the beautiful past.
There follows a further 50 pages set in the diminished present, in which the survivors return to attend Mary's funeral.
York, no less than Thursday and Collinwood, is a man who finds himself living in a diminished present, unable to escape the shadow of a heroic past.
For Mr. Jensen, these frail but determined seamen are the modern-day descendants of the Vikings, a link to a mythic past that seems seriously out of joint with the diminished present.
"They plagued her like migraines, left her helpless and dissatisfied, as if her life and the lives of all those she'd loved had come to nothing, merely because that time was gone, receding even in her own memory, to be replaced by this diminished present".
Thus, presenting a situation in which masculinity appears at its most fluid, with multiple masculine positions (emphasized masculinity, traditional masculinity, and diminished masculinity) presented as being occupied or aspired to over time, and existing at one time within the imagination and practices of individual men.
The land, depressed under the enormous weight of the ice, has been rising since, lifting the old beaches above the present diminished bodies of water.
Patients with CTS usually present diminished pinch strength, mostly in severe cases.
EHEC and EPEC luxS mutant both present diminished AI-3 production and do not express the LEE-encoded T3SS system at normal levels, nonetheless still form AE lesions on epithelial cells that were indistinguishable from those seen with wild type.
As shown in Figure 2A, N2a-RML cells presented diminished ER calcium release after thapsigargin treatment, which was dose-dependent (Figure 2B).
Obese subjects presented diminished attenuation of the BOLD signal in response to glucose ingestion compared with lean subjects, and patients with type 2 diabetes did not show any hypothalamic signal changes compared with non-diabetic patients [ 125].
