Sentence examples for diminishing idea from inspiring English sources

But the tension between this abstract and diminishing idea and its realization as a strange, aged, specific figure, with a strong, unostentatious but perfect body and a grave, unforgettable face — half Don Imus, half St. Jerome; Nicholl suggests that it is a self-portrait — gives the image a certain heroism, as though the individual had stoically lent himself for a scientific trial.

They are also the group most likely to be turned off by the prickly and diminished idea of Britain with which Conservative climate change sceptics—a group almost synonymous with hardline Eurosceptics—are associated.Mr Cameron's neglect of what was once his defining issue has contributed to that diminution.

So rather than diminishing the idea of "truly needing" a relationship -- and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it -- why not just celebrate it?

For many artists the avalanching awards and wealth of later life come with an unwelcome diminishing of ideas, but Rauschenberg was still avid for discoveries in his 80s.

He continued, "We have to diminish the idea that technology is going to change warfare…War is primarily a human endeavor".

Davis compares Seaside with resort environments such as Bath and Brighton, but that comparison diminishes the idea of Seaside as a serious community.

The evidence behind both theories was that scientists had found arsenic in hairs from Napoleon's head, which diminished the idea that he had died of stomach cancer.

In 1764, the patriot James Otis, Jr., declared that nothing could be said "in favor of a trade that is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish the idea of the inestimable value of liberty, and makes every dealer in it a tyrant".

Is it so important that the state consumes only 35.5% of GDP rather than, say, 37% that we are prepared to sacrifice social mobility, entrench class, lower home ownership, enslave a generation to debt and diminish the idea of the university?

It diminishes the idea's merit.

Disaster is a modern socially constructed concept (Wisner et al. 2014) placing the focus on people and the things we value and care about, and as such, it greatly diminishes the idea of disasters in deeper time.