Sentence examples for diminishing like from inspiring English sources

It was a world of powerlessness, pretension, passivity cramped and steadily diminishing, like Al Qaeda itself.

It was a world of powerlessness, pretension, passivity — cramped and steadily diminishing, like Al Qaeda itself.

The value of the nomination, even if he gets it, is quickly diminishing, like a bowl of potato chips on Newt Gingrich's TV tray.

Dybek manages to find a bleak poetry in the alienated, urban milieu he depicts: In "Nighthawks," he describes the moon as having "gone through phases, diminishing like a stalled traffic light in the rearview mirror of a taxi.

I suddenly felt diminished, like a balsamic reduction.

Despite being physically diminished like many a fiftysomething, nine is a pretty good age.

But on days of drizzle and drifting cloud the keep diminishes, like an amateur drawing half-erased.

He says now he feels old, diminished, like "a tree that was full of leaves," burdened with aches and pains, his body suddenly doing weird things.

His wide, clear landscapes will be fatally diminished, like old master paintings reproduced on postcards, if you see them on video.

To prop it up as here, with dancers, cute children, computers, desks, a school nativity play and an ironing board, is to add only to diminish, like colouring in a Bernini sculpture.

It is possible, I suppose, that Penn State could one day be a football powerhouse again, but if it wound up permanently diminished like S.M.U., that would be O.K.