Sentence examples for diminished rather than from inspiring English sources

Seen on clean white walls, tags and throw-ups tend to look diminished rather than elevated, their grit and defiance drained away by institutional approval.

But if King reacts to a friend's photograph of her spotty-faced teen-ager with a comment about pizza, he is likely to feel diminished rather than empowered.

Zimmerman says that Dessay hated the scene, in part, because it required her to begin upstage, where she thought her voice would be diminished, rather than downstage, where a singer inevitably feels most secure.

But those who knew him when he played for Manchester City and Liverpool are sure that the peculiarities of wartime football diminished rather than exaggerated his stature as a player.

What sets Mr. Kaplan's "Daydream Believers" apart is his emphasis on the Bush administration's failure to come to terms with a post-cold-war paradigm, which, he argues, left America's power diminished, rather than enhanced, as former allies, liberated from the specter of the Soviet Union, felt increasingly free to depart from Washington's directives.

Similarly, an otherwise strong story about an Argentine forensic worker asked by a Bosnian mother to find her lost son seems diminished, rather than enhanced, when we learn that one of his favorite relatives was among the "disappeared" in his home country.

But such a claim diminishes rather than elevates King.

Furthermore, this step diminishes rather than promotes the equal rights of women in that country.

The letter said such a rule could "diminish rather than enhance investors' overall understanding of fund fees".

The sharing economy entails a profound disruption of current modes of production; it could destroy small-scale retail enterprises and it could diminish, rather than enrich, our culture.

Admittedly, Helen Mirren did a wonderful PR job for the Queen, but often even the most hagiographic screen treatments can end up diminishing rather than dignifying their subjects.